Risky Business vs. Porky's (the 2004 rematch)

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2004)

What starts as a halfway decent update of "Risky Business" loses its' way and cannot maintain the attempts at style made for the first 40 minutes or so. After that, it doesn't fall completely apart, though. Emile Hirsch is a shorter, and less able, version of Tom Cruise (as another young man about to move on to a predictably successful and boring)college career, but Elisha Cuthbert (TV's 24 ) is the main event, and manages to turn on the sex appeal for much of that first forty minutes. After that, Timothy Olyphant is not too bad at basically being `Guido the Killer Pimp,' and, while Hirsch and Cuthbert's relationship grows more strained, Hirsch's two buddies (Chris Marquette's porn obsessed Eli and Paul Dano (L.I.E.) as the geeky Klitz) are fun to watch, sustaining much of the rest of the film. Nice, though, to think that anyone in Hollywood these days would consider remaking a Risky Business, instead of the more blunt and simple minded Porky's films.