Porky’s II: The Next Day * (1983, Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight) – Classic Movie Review 10,976

The 1983 sex comedy film Porky’s II: The Next Day is the sequel to the 1981 film Porky’s, again directed and written by Bob Clark, or co-written this time with Alan Ormsby and Roger Swaybill, who said ‘It took us about six weeks to write the sequel. And it was before the cameras by June. The result was far less spontaneous. The kids just wanted us to be down and dirty.’

The old naughty gang from the Angel Beach High School is back in more vulgar Florida school pranks (though it is a Canadian production again) with even lower marks for laughs and sex appeal than last time. This time the school authorities object when the Porky’s drama class plan to stage a controversial version of Shakespeare. There is also a serious point: the high schoolers soon want revenge on KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production when they cast a Seminole transfer student, John Henry (Joseph Runningfox) as its star playing Romeo, and Wendy Williams playing Juliet, involving an interracial kiss.

Unlike in Porky’s, Porky himself does not appear, and Honeywell and Cherry Forever also do not appear. A Porky movie with no Porky in it? Mmm, very odd.

The film’s gross was much lower than for Porky’s, which grossed $105 million in North America while Porky’s II: The Next Day took $33,759,266. But the the budget was only $6,500,000 and a sequel, Porky’s Revenge!, was released in 1985, with Porky back.

It is shot at Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Virginia Key, Florida; and Miami, Florida, as well as in the studio at Great Southern Sound Stage, 15221 NE 21st Street, Miami. Greynolds Park in North Miami, Florida, stands in for the Everglades and a plant nursery on Old Cutler Road was turned into a cemetery for the graveyard scenes.

Bob Clark was born on August 5, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and died in a car accident on April 4, 2007, age 67.

The cast are Dan Monahan as Edward “Pee Wee” Morris, Wyatt Knight as Tommy Turner, Mark Herrier as Billy McCarty, Tony Ganios as Anthony “Meat” Tuperello, Scott Colomby as Brian Schwartz, Cyril O’Reilly as Tim Cavanaugh, Kaki Hunter as Wendy Williams, Ilse Earl as Mrs. Morris, Eric Christmas as Mr. Carter, Bill Wiley as Bubba Flavel, Nancy Parsons as Ms. Beulah Balbricker, Joseph Runningfox as John Henry, Roger Wilson as Mickey Jarvis, Art Hindle as Officer Ted Jarvis, Jack Mulcahy as Frank Bell, Bill Hindman as Coach Goodenough, Mal Jones as Mayor Abernathy, Richard Liberty as Commissioner Couch, Fred Buch as Commissioner Hurley, Edward Winter as Commissioner Bob Gebhardt and Will Knickerbocker as Klan #1.

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