Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The first must-see film of the year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is the third sequel to Police Academy, where basically the filmmakers recycle the main plot from Police Academy 3. Instead of training new police cadets, Sgt. Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) and company are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime.While the acting is OK, I thought the plot lacks any captivating action and is consumed by the same old gags and mediocre jokes. You might get a few chuckles here and there from the ongoing jokes, but you probably won't find much thrills in the action-less plot.The subplots involving Zed (Bobcat Goldthwait) and Laura's (Corinne Bohrer) fling and reporter Claire Mattson (Sharon Stone) were not elaborated upon and some of the more memorial characters were only on screen for a very short time, including Nogata (Brian Tochi), Kirkland (Colleen Camp) and Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes).Overall, it's not a very exciting sequel. Stick with Parts Two or Three.Grade D

Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Marion Ramsay, Leslie Easterbrook, Tim Kazurinsky, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brian Tochi, G.W. Bailey, Lance Kinsey and George Gaynes star in this 1987 comedy sequel. In this installment, Commandant Lassard (Gaynes) begins a program called, Citizens On Patrol where members of the community help stop crime and learn techniques the police use. Mahoney (Guttenberg), Hightower (Smith), Jones (Winslow), Tackleberry (Graf), Hooks (Ramsay), Callahan (Easterbrook), Sweetchuck (Kazurinsky) and Zed (Goldthwait) help instruct them. Bailey returns as Harris who thinks the program is a bad idea, Kinsey returns as Proctor who now works for Harris and Tochi appears as Nogata who is reunited with Callahan. Sharon stone (Basic Instinct) is also featured as reporter, Claire who ends up with Mahoney, David Spade (Tommy Boy) plays skateboarder, Kyle and Zed also finds romance with a photographer (Corinne Bohrer). This is a decent sequel, it's nice to see Bailey back as Harris, but it's too bad it's Guttenberg's last appearance in the series. I still recommend this.

Commandant Lassard decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with officers in a program called Citizens On Patrol.Mahoney and his friends are in charge of training the civilians.Captain Harris wants to take over Lassard's job, and that's why Harris is determined to see the COP program fail.But it's Harris and his right hand man Proctor who mess up by allowing every inmate at the precinct 19 jail to escape....Part four and even Guttenberg had had enough by the end, he flew off with Sharon Stone. But as you may have read on my previous reviews, I was never a fan of Mahoney.It's more of the same here, little sketches before some random criminals escape and they can have a big showdown.Zed is the main draw again, and this time he has fallen in love with some seriously hot woman.That's the highlight of the movie. The makers knew that the series had run it's course, so they were churning these out as quick as they could.But while this film is one of the worst of the series, it still has some funny (albeit brief) moments.Plus, there is a random scene on a boat involving ninjas for no reason at all.If your a fan of the series, it gives you all the characters in funny situations, and then they all get together at the end.But just not as funny.

The only laughable aspect of this harrowingly pitiful, putrid sequel is the fact it was ever made.Noted feminist Sharon Stone humiliates herself in an early non-role as a reporter. She is the sex interest for head clown Mahoney's latest lechery. If the yearning was ever reciprocated it failed to make it through the editing process...if indeed there was one.In common with #3, this smear of celluloid woe features a humour-free chase sequence, the elongated nature of which can only be explained by a lack of gag material. This is especially unfortunate given it arrives so earlier in proceedings.An abysmal black hole of joylessness, perhaps the most dismal aspect of all is Bobcat Goldthwait's screeching, speech defective moron Zed. He finds a girlfriend instead of the spear to the balding pate which he so patently merits.