Porky's (1982)

Suckered into watching this movie by a friend of mine "What?  You haven't seen Porky's?  It's a classic!" I find myself in a sour mood.  I'm sure back in 1982 this film was hilarious and the bathroom scene alone must have shocked lustful teens into hysterics.  But none of this humor really holds up anymore.   The fact that Bob Clark (writer and director) set his film in the '50s is pretty great and that's the one aspects that I enjoyed-- the wiping away of the '50s as a pure moral, Leave-It-To-Beaver world.  The biggest problem with this film is that all the characters laugh for me.  When Honeywell demonstrates why she's known as Lassie in the men's locker room, I might have laughed but actor Doug McGrath's horrid uncontrollable laughter steals away any need for me to enjoy what's happening.  It's like a visual laugh track and it's very annoying.  And this choice to have the cast laughing at what's happening is a repeating force that become very annoying by the end of the film.  Sure there's so really amusing character work and Pee Wee's desperate desire to lose his virginity is chuckle inducing but the overall result is a sex comedy from the '80s stuck in a time capsule.  If Howard Stern wants to make a remake of this, I say go for it.  Just don't laugh for me, please.  Grade: C+