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Just Pathetic.
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Aug 11, 2005
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They don't know where the hell to stop, do they? They just keep on makin' 'em and people keep on watchin 'em but this franchise has to be bone dry by now - even diehard fans have to admit that. The first Police Academy film (a vague memory from 1984) was funny and had some truly inspired moments and it was made at the pinnacle of Steve Guttenberg's short but successful career. The second part was pretty lowbrow but had a few moments. By part three the descent into utter, unredeemable crappiness began. At that point they were relying on Bobcat Goldthwait's coked-out, manic humor and Michael Winslow's sound effects to make the now PG rated movies work. Bad formula. Mahoney's (Guttenberg)antics were tired and stale and David Graf and Leslie Easterbrook's schtick had grown boring. Time to cop-out (no pun intended). But here they keep the gravy train a rollin'. By Number 5 : Assignment Miami Beach, Gutenberg wouldn't even appear in the films anymore so really all you had was Bubba Smith who probably needed the money and the rest of the unfunny gang in super pathetic attempts at humor. How do you make something that is stone cold dead live again? You can't. You don't even try or if you do you inject it in the ass with 150,000 miligrams of Adrenaline. Not happening. After viewing this sixth installment I knew that I would never, ever watch another P.A. film again, not even if Tarantino directed it. As a kid I enjoyed parts 1 thru 3 and had hopes for the rest that followed. But hey, I was a kid. Looking back, they weren't great films or even good ones but they were entertaining distractions, well natured and so-on. But this is truly bottom of the barrel garbage. The only reason I didn't give it an F is because almost all of the original cast hung on this long. Now that's loyalty...or excessive greed. But this film is soooo sad that it goes beyond pathetic. It actually looked like this would mercifully be the last P.A. film but no...five years later they made Mission to Moscow. I know I didn't rent it. |
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