Just what I expected

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Absolutely brilliant

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected. Police Academy 3: Back in Training recruits the fun team for another 3rd adventure and boy what an adventure plus the hilarious and insane dude from the 2nd one Zed is now an officer himself and he is just freaking funny as hell. The laughs are once again hysterical and the movie is just as good as the previous 2 entries in the Series and definitely not a 5.3 kind of comedy as IMDb listed it.

The best of the 'Police Academy' films will always be the original by quite some way. It isn't great and will never be a favourite comedy or overall film of mine, 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.It was followed by six sequels, and none of them were as good or even on the same level as the first, though admittedly some are worse than others. Most of them are actually being pretty bad or worse and lose what was enjoyable about the original in the first place. After a tolerable but vastly inferior first sequel, the quality worsens with 'Police Academy 3' while not being one of the series' worst.'Police Academy 3' is not irredeemable, then again this is coming from somebody who always tries to find something good in mediocre or less films. A few cast members fare well, those being Michael Winslow, David Graf and Leslie Easterbrook. George Gaynes is always watchable and is here too even with his material not being as meaty or as funny.Robert Folk's score is robust and infectious and there is a bit with a scooter and a car that is quite amusing and the best timed of all the gags.Unfortunately, too much of the cast have little to do or have lost what made their characters work before. Steve Guttenberg has lost his spark and enthusiasm, while Marion Ramsey does little with a character that has nothing to her and, while a high-point in the second film, Bob Goldthwait is even more unsubtle and tries far too hard here that it's irritating.Sadly there are nowhere near enough laughs, maybe a couple of minor parts work but there are no real highlight scenes really (which the first two had) and the rest of the gags are 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. The climax goes on for far too long and a lot of it is ineptly staged and the low point of the surprisingly amateurish direction. The script throughout takes the dumbness way too far and some of it is pretty puerile to insulting degrees.Overall, the IMDb taglines listed couldn't be more ironic summing up a weak (but worse was to follow) entry. 3/10 Bethany Cox

The Governor is closing one of the city's two police academies. Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Hightower (Bubba Smith), Tackleberry (David Graf), Jones (Michael Winslow), Hooks (Marion Ramsey), and Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook) return to the academy to help Lassard (George Gaynes) train the new recruits and fend off Mauser (Art Metrano) who runs the other academy.The good thing this time around is that they've returned to the academy. The gang is together again. Mauser being at the other academy is a minor obstacle. Half the fun of the series is to play pranks on Mauser. There are still pranks but it's more difficult to set it up naturally. The gang's hijinx is getting a little tired. Bobcat Goldthwait as a cadet is great. There are some good and some bad in this movie. It's a mix bag.

The city has two police academies, one is under the eye of Commandant Lassard and the other is under Commandant Mauser.Now Mauser has learnt that the State is considering closing one of the academies, and to protect himself, he approaches Blanks and Copeland and instructs them to make sure that Lassard's cadets all foul up.Lassard on the other hand calls his "favorite graduates", Mahoney, Hightower, Jones, Tackleberry, and Hooks, and along with their former instructor, Callahan, they try to train the cadets and hopefully save their academy......Like the second movie, this threequel feels like a lot of sketches made into a movie with a thin plot.It somehow works, because of the cast and the reliability of each of their traits. Callahan is back from who knows where, and of course Zed and Sweetchuck were so popular, they are in this as recruits (even though Zed should be in prison).Of course the latter two recruits have the biggest laughs throughout the film. Mauser is still here and makes you yearn for Harris more, and Mahoney is as irritating and annoying as ever.The film ends with some rock music and an extended chase on jet skis, which was exciting twenty years ago, but hideous now, nut thankfully the funny parts I found funny all those years ago, still make me smile.Not a good film by any means, but it's nostalgic.