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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, British lobby (front of the house) card. 1985 Submitted by @videorecord

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Cadet Zed: Yeah. I used to be a real jerk, but now I'm a people guy. (singing) tough to be a truck driver cowgirl.(talking)You're awake!What kind of music do you like? Do you like salsa? Do you like reggae? Something with that love beat?This is a song I wrote off my first album. And it goes something like this.(singing)When I was a baby I had no head I couldn't get a job, I couldn't go to bed It was originally a love ballad, but I kind of spruced it up.(talking)No, I don't take requests.

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[gianluc30]

Police Academy 1985

Zed & Carl Sweetchuck

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SNL cast 1981-1982

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Lucifers Death Squad  A.C.A.B.

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Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)

Date watched:  24 September 2018

Round three of the epic Police Academy re-watch, and I’m getting the sinking feeling that things are only going to get worse.

I think this is probably the first time in either my whole life, or since I was a kid, that I've actually watched the movies one after the other, and so I was shocked to discover that it's almost sort of a continuing story?  You could watch the movies independently of each other and not miss any major plot points, but if you watch them in order, there is a semblance of a continuing storyline.  This might all change later on (I have very little memory of the sixth and seventh movies, for example, and number 5 is set in Miami and from what I remember it's bonkers), but the first three, definitely, are part of the same story.

People who weren't in the second movie pop back up in the third movie.  For example, the two blonde dickheads from the first movie are back as the same two blonde dickheads in this movie (Blanks and Copeland), Callahan is back (the blonde bombshell) and they're back on the original Police Academy campus.

Also – in the last review I was thinking New York was the setting of these movies.  I'm not thinking New York anymore.  Why? Firstly, they showed a night shot of a city-scape and it definitely wasn't New York, and secondly, they're NEAR A FUCKING BEACH OR A LAKE.  Lots of water!  I'm not sure if it's the ocean or one of the Great Lakes?  From the first shot of this movie I was like, maybe Detroit? Definitely not New York or Chicago, that's for sure.  The skyline doesn't match.Definitely not LA.  I believe it's an east coast city, I just don't know which one.  I'm thinking Detroit because it's on one of the lakes, but is there a lake "beach" nearby?  I just don't know.

Maybe a smaller city?  Maybe it's Cleveland?  Okay I just googled Cleveland and now I'm thinking that might be the answer.  It's on a lake and the skyline sort of matches.

These are the things you think about when you watch Police Academy as an adult.

So this instalment starts at a fancy police ball, where it is announced that only one of the police academies in the state will be able to stay open.  Lieutenant Mauser from the second movie has scored himself a promotion, as he is now heading up one of the police academies, while Commandant Lassard is still in charge of the original (and the best, let's face it).  Mauser's academy looks like some sort of marine training ground – all of his recruits are big, tough men, as opposed to the other academy, which is made up of riff raff.

There are some call backs to the first movie – Fackler's wife decides to join the academy, and he's hanging onto the bonnet of her car this time (in the first movie that was reversed).  We then don't see him for the rest of the movie so maybe he died.

The main villain from the first movie is again the villain in this movie, so I'm guessing that prison stint didn't last too long.

The two academies are basically in competition, and our heroes are losing (because they're riff raff, let's face it). Mahoney has a flirtation with the new blonde police lady but it doesn't really go anywhere and they don't end up together at the end.  She's more interested in her career and I respect that.  We also don't see her in any skimpy attire at any point during the movie, which is truly shocking.

There are also ZERO BOOBS IN THIS MOVIE.  WHAT.  THE. FUCK.  What has happened?  I thought this was the 80s!  Where's my gratuitous boob shot?  What are pre-teen boys supposed to rewind over and over again?  Honestly.

It ends with one of the new recruits discovering a plot to kidnap the governor at this fancy regatta, and then a jet ski chase on the… lake? I feel like it's a lake, I really do. There's an extended jet ski chase with them all on rad 80s jet skis in wetsuits that are a little baggy (just something I noticed), until finally they rescue the governor, and the Police Academy is saved!

It's your basic underdog plot with a lot of hijinks thrown in. The one thing I did think was that it seems like it's almost overstuffed with characters and nobody was really getting a chance to shine.  You've got the old guard from the first two movies plus a whole bunch of new recruits, and everyone is competing for screen time.

A lot of that screen time goes to Bobcat Goldthwaite and his shrieking, and Mauser and Proctor and their scheming.  I felt like Steve Guttenberg was a real non-presence in this instalment.  A lot of stuff happens but he's not involved in too much of it.

There's also a fairly awfu lAsian stereotype that I'd rather not spend too much time on, and just be thankful that we, as a society, have progressed past these offensive stereotypes.

I think this is the last time we see Mauser – I'm pretty sure G.W. Bailey is in the rest of the movies.  I prefer him anyway.

Stay tuned for an analysis of Police Academy 4!