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Astoundingly silly but incredibly popular, Police Academy is the first film in a seemingly endless franchise that takes aim at the men in blue. After a police academy drops all of its entrance requirements, all manner of misfits flood in, hoping to make it onto the force. One of these misfits, a lazy, aimless cadet played by Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby), was forced to enlist and tries whatever he can to get kicked out. But once he decides to stay, he tries anything and everything to finish his training, even as his drill instructor tries to shove him out. Featuring a wild bunch of strange supporting characters, from a female trainee who speaks below a whisper to a dominatrix instructor to a human sound-effects machine, Police Academy is mindless but fun. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is slapstick humour at its best with a cast of memorable characters that you'll laugh at again and again.This proves the movie rule that sequels are by definition worse as none of the sequels comes close to the calibre of this film
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is the first of the Police Academy series and still to this day the best. When i watch this movie i still laugh, but with the others i could just bare a simple smile. With Mahoney, Jones getting up to misheive you cant help to look away. I will always remember this film for the Blue Oyster Bar, which was the brunt of jokes i made going threw my teenage years. This is a classic typical good, up beat feeling film. A must see for all kind of generations.
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Hilarious comedy, proper laugh out loud funny, Police Academy (1984) is one of those rare comedic films with quite an intellectual message.
It's about a failing police institution (the Police Academy) opening itself up to new people and the benefits which can be gained in community policing. However it's not as simple as that!
Steve Guttenberg and co are all excellent actors and deliver a seriously funny bunch of characters in this film. Hugh Wilson has delivered a work which fizzles a little towards the end and loses narrative force but nevertheless is still top class tight comedy with brilliant sketches from one scene to another and it is a classic.
Fantastic for lightening the mood!
It's about a failing police institution (the Police Academy) opening itself up to new people and the benefits which can be gained in community policing. However it's not as simple as that!
Steve Guttenberg and co are all excellent actors and deliver a seriously funny bunch of characters in this film. Hugh Wilson has delivered a work which fizzles a little towards the end and loses narrative force but nevertheless is still top class tight comedy with brilliant sketches from one scene to another and it is a classic.
Fantastic for lightening the mood!
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no brainer.
this is a period piece. loads to offend , loads to make you belly laugh.... fabulous cast. rubbish soundtrack but who cares.. priceless film.
Published 15 months ago by JrF
who doesnt love this movie
police academy,the first of the series and the best of the lot,a true comedy,a film that is always in the list of comedy greats,a film that introduced the world to some amazing... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2007 by sean paul mccann
The best of the lot?
I decided to get this as I remember it as being my favourite of the Police Academy films. I have not seen it for a very long time, it is still funny in places but maybe not quite... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2006 by DVD Fan
The best of the Police Academy films
As the first of the series this was the most original and funny of all the police academy films. No matter how many times I watch this film (and it has been loads of times) it... Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2005 by Ms. N. K. Davis
first of it's kind
THE FIRST POLICE ACADEMY FILM IS BEST ONE IN THE SERIOUS BECAUSE IT IS FUNNY AND AN ENJOYABLE FILM TO WATCH AND ALSO BECAUSE STEVE GUTTEMBURG IS IN IT, HE IS BETTER IN COMEDY FILMS... Read more
Published on 25 May 2004
Hilarious!
This is by far the best Police Academy movie ever made. Guaranteed laughs over and over, no matter how many times you watch it
Published on 22 Feb 2004 by Fiona MacColl
The only Police Academy film worth remembering
This film is hilarious - from Mahoney's T Shirt "One in the Oven" to the comedy of Lesley Barbara in the giant camera and the prostitute in the lecturn. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2004 by "michelleemerick1"
Fun Fun Fun
This first in the series still remains my favourite. The characters were new, diverse and above all believable, while the gags were fresh, creating a colourful merry-go-round of... Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2002 by Pieter
Silly film great laughs
A great movie from the lost genre silly moviemaking along with movies like Porky's. Silly, mindless fun with heaps of cheesy one liners. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2000
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