Awesome Movie

A Masterpiece!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The original 'Police Academy' was a good and very entertaining film, it wasn't great and will never be one of my favourite comedies or overall films, but it clearly knew what it wanted to be so it was easy to take it for what it was and what it set out to do.None of the sequels are up to the same level as the original 'Police Academy', most of them actually being pretty bad or worse and lose what was enjoyable about the original in the first place. 'Police Academy 2' is one of the better sequels by quite some way and one of the just about tolerable ones. Sadly however the drop in quality from the first is quite significant which is what makes it nowhere near as good.'Police Academy 2' is not without its strengths. The cast mostly do well with what they have. Steve Guttenberg is fun and amiable, and there is enthusiastic support from particularly Michael Winslow, George Gaynes and Bubba Smith. Bobcat Goldthwait's performance is not easy to forget, he gives it his all and while it is a long way from a subtle performance (Goldthwait has never been known for subtlety) he's fun.While the laughs are too far and between, there are a few funny lines and a couple of scenes that work. The highlight is the shampoo/superglue scene, which is actually pretty hilarious and one of the series' funniest moments. The Bruce Lee imitation is also priceless. The score is catchy and infectious as ever.Howard Hesseman clearly looks embarrassed however, and no wonder, and Marion Ramsey is let down by that she has little to do and the writers didn't know what to do with her.Admittedly, there were a few times where the original 'Police Academy' had a few miss moments, the second film has only a few moments that work and the rest misfire. This is due to being poorly timed, feeling laboured and with some abrupt shifts from one to another, parts that are more grossly crude than anything remotely amusing and too much of it has a style of humour that feels far too toned down, which makes the film feel leaden and bland.Production values look rushed, like there were severe time and budget constraints, while what little there is of the story (most of it close to non-existent rather than thin) is an incredibly lazy-feeling replay. There is also a completely redundant and pointless subplot in the final third that really should have been left on the editing room floor. Most of the script takes the dumbness way too far and some of it is pretty puerile. The direction is as barely there as the story.In summary, a disappointment compared to the previous film but better than what would come later. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Is the sequel to the 1984 original film which did surprisingly well at the box office but wasn't a success with the critics but anyway it made a sequel out of it stars Steve Guttenberg Mahoney , Bubba smith hightower , and many more as the new police academy recruits who have graduated from the academy and they are sent on there first assignment to clean up Howard hessman Pete lassard commandant lassards brother whose police force is the worst in the city and also have to contend with Art metrano lieutenant mouser and ambitious officer who wants to make captain and make his dumb lackey proctor played by lance Kinsey . Anyway to all those who read this is the last police academy sequel that actually provides you with laughs Don't look at the sequels after this one there rubbish seriously the worst sequels ever made please don't watch them after this one iam doing you a serious favour

Six of the recruits from the first film have graduated to the police force. Their first assignment is to stop a gang led by a weirdo named Zed (Bobcat Goldthwait). To make matters more difficult, an ambitious lieutenant is determined to make sure they fail so that he can get the police captain's job. All of the returnees from the previous movie are fun here. The best new addition to the series is that of Bobcat Goldthwait, who has some of the funniest moments in the movie. Replacing G.W. Bailey as the heavy is Art Metrano. He's not as good as Bailey but he does okay. His dim-witted sidekick, played by Lance Kinsey, is better. It's not as funny as the first movie but the likable cast helps it a lot.

It's pretty obvious this "Police Academy"-sequel was made very hastily (weren't they all, for that matter), but that shouldn't suggest it isn't at least vaguely worthwhile. Some later parts of the franchise were made just to fill the boxes they came in, but this one definitely seems to have a heart. It still has all the great characters you know and love from the first one (technically Harris is replaced by Mauser, but it's the exact same character anyway), the actors have the same enthusiasm and hell, they even do pretty much the same jokes as in the original. That last part may not be a good thing, but hell, deal with it. This is also the one where Zed is introduced, by far my favourite character. I could probably watch Bob Goldthwait read the yellow pages for two hours, hell I could even watch "Burglar". I'm not gonna, but I could. Long story short: "Police Academy 2" is a pretty bare-bones take on "Police Academy", but it's entertaining. The movie basically wrote itself because it had already been written once, but it's good enough to waste a nice evening.