Police Academy (1984)

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1103 movies items)

" Police Academy is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson in his directorial debut, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Its story follows a new recruitment policy for an unnamed police department's academy that is required to take in any recruit who wishes to try out to be a police officer. The film stars Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, and G.W. Bailey. The film was produced by The Ladd Company. It premiered on March 23, 1984. It grossed $8.5 million in its opening weekend"

What an institution indeed

“Part of me did want to see the first 'Police Academy' film for a while now, but the bad reputations of the sequels and that the style of humour 'Police Academy' has has been done really badly elsewhere that it did admittedly put me off.

Seeing all the films recently, for curiosity and giving the benefit of the doubt, while the sequels are really not good on the most part the original 'Police Academy' is and is rightly considered the best of the series. 'Police Academy' is never going to be one of my favourite films, and won't be in my list of favourite comedies any time soon, but, taking it for what it is and what it set out to do, it entertained for most of the just over an hour and a half running time.

It is a bit hit and miss in places, not all the jokes work (most d” read more

Movies That I have watched all (2195 movies items)

"8.6/10"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2022: March (28 movies items)

"Re-watch - March 1st HBO Max My original plan for this month was to run the full Police Academy series, but apparently I missed that HBO Max already dropped all the sequels prior to March 1st. That'll teach me to make sure I'm checking the Leaving Soon tab on the mobile app, as it shows more options than the one I access through my Fire Stick (as an example of this, only the mobile app shows that the other 2 films in this section were leaving 3/31). Hadn't seen Police Academy since it was in "

Watched in 2022 (603 movies items)

"30.1. BD 2. katselu"

Movies That I Changed My Mind About (51 movies items)

"It’s silly, juvenile, and some of the humour hasn’t aged well, and I didn’t care for Police Academy originally. But now it’s not that bad, all things considered."

Favorite Comedy Films: 1984-1985 (67 movies items)

" Directed by: Hugh Wilson Produced by: Paul Maslansky and Alan Ladd, Jr. Written by: Pat Proft, Neil Isreal, and Hugh Wilson Cinematography: Michael D. Margulies Edited by: Zach Staenberg and Robert Brown Music by: Robert Folk Distributed by: Warner Bros."