When I was a kid I watch Police Academy 4 and 5 a zillion times. I rented them so often I might as well have bought the tapes. I only rented the sixth movie once and I hated it. I have never bothered to check out the first movies until now and I can't say I'm impressed. The crazy characters are as adorable as ever, but there's just nothing much for them to do.
Police Academy is more of a raunchy frat-house pic and not the lovable family comedy that the later movies became. There's barely any plot to speak of and the scenes come across as a bunch of awkward vignettes with terrible comic timing and pauses for laughs that I didn't make. It's strung together very loosely and gets boring after a while. The Blue Oyster bar jokes, however dated, still make me giggle though.
Despite their, somewhat deserved, bad reputation as low-brow trash, some of these movies were much more fun than the original, especially the cartoon show that followed (and a live-action one too). Police Academy is ripe for a reboot and I'd love to hear that happy theme tune again.
Police Academy is more of a raunchy frat-house pic and not the lovable family comedy that the later movies became. There's barely any plot to speak of and the scenes come across as a bunch of awkward vignettes with terrible comic timing and pauses for laughs that I didn't make. It's strung together very loosely and gets boring after a while. The Blue Oyster bar jokes, however dated, still make me giggle though.
Despite their, somewhat deserved, bad reputation as low-brow trash, some of these movies were much more fun than the original, especially the cartoon show that followed (and a live-action one too). Police Academy is ripe for a reboot and I'd love to hear that happy theme tune again.