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Police Academy
According to new, politically correct rules for peace officer recruitment, requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing fitness requirements, educational levels, and medical standards. A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
12 September 1950, New York City, New York, USA
20 September 1953
13 May 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 May 1917, Helsinki, Finland, Russia [now Finland]
28 February 1945, Orange, Texas, USA
26 November 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 May 1947, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 August 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 16, 2004
A Reagan-era screed against affirmative action, Police Academy warns what misfits and lowlifes wait to pour through the floodgates.
October 16, 2004
Goofy group makes 'Car 54 Where Are You?' seem like Shakespeare.
July 26, 2002
One of the worst popular comedies of all time.
August 13, 2003
Excellent misfit comedy. The R rating gives it edge that the sequels lack.
March 31, 2004
You know how people talk about a movie being so bad it's good? Police Academy is that movie.
June 07, 2012
Sophomoric '80's cop-spoof has profanity, sex, stereotypes.
July 30, 2002
And it only went downhill from here
January 01, 2005
Funny! Funny! Funny!
August 21, 2004
A tasteless comedy.
March 24, 2014
The movie had its moment in the sun, somebody made a lot of money from it and then it vanished. Mercifully so in most ways, but not without leaving at least a little whiff of younger, happier days behind.
April 06, 2004
It's harmless stuff, to be sure, but almost invisible, it disappears from memory so fast. A stealth comedy, perhaps?