Georgina Spelvin Hooker as Hooker. Hugh Wilson. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In desperate need of a fresh batch of police officers, the newly appointed Lady Mayoress of a crime-plagued metropolis lowers the bar for the recruitment process.
As a result, all types of misfits start flocking into Commandant Eric Lassard's prestigious Police Academy, and the leader of this assortment of pariahs is Carey Mahoney: a light-hearted, devil-may-care young rebel. But now, there is no turning back, and to make matters worse, the autocratic martinet, Lieutenant Harris, can't wait to see them quit. Then, a full-scale riot breaks out, and the inexperienced but dauntless cadets will have to put their training to good use.
Do they have what it takes to be law-enforcement officers? Want to be a law-enforcement officer? All you do is join the farce. Did you know Edit. Trivia Director Hugh Wilson stated that when it came time to film the driving scene with Hightower at a. Goofs When Captain Reed and Mahoney are in the interrogation room at the police station, Captain Reed tells Mahoney that the duration of the police academy is 14 weeks long.
When Mahoney is at the academy Commandant Lassard tells him the academy training is 24 weeks long. However, Lassard gets the length of time wrong repeatedly throughout the film, even having to be reminded of it when inspecting the new cadets.
Quotes Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris : Mahoney! Crazy credits The movie's opening titles lights up white via the sound of a thunderclap. Alternate versions NBC edited 5 minutes from this film for its network television premiere. User reviews Review. The Academy building seen in Movies 1, 3 and 4 is in Toronto. The facility was discovered by Trevor Williams from the production team for the first film. Police Academy was the first film to be shot there.
Subsequently, it was used as a location for various other productions. The building has since been bought by Humber College , a technical university, but is currently empty In the seventh film, there is again an exterior shot of the academy, but another building is shown, the location of which is not known. A recurring location in all of the films except the sixth is Commander Lassard's office, which is primarily used for meetings. It has a view of the academy forecourt.
Lassard is sitting with his back to the window and has a large desk in front of him. Since the location of the films changed several times, you can see clear differences in the appearance of the office. Oh, and Steve Guttenberg, too. Having a Police Academy movie without the machine gun mouth of Larvell Jones would be sacrilegious.
Winslow is the only actor from the movie to appear in each film of the series as well as the live action Police Academy: The Series.
The name Police Academy has become synonymous with "unnecessary sequels. It was a collective cultural curiosity: Why did Hollywood keep making Police Academy movies if the sequels didn't perform well and the critics absolutely loathed them?
It's because in the film industry, financial math isn't always about big bucks — it's about profit margins and relative success.
That's a tidy profit for producers, so they kept making Police Academy movies, and none were nearly as successful as the original. However, total grosses don't much matter because the film's relative low cost meant they still turned a profit.
For what was initially just a slight, silly comedy movie about bumbling cops, Police Academy generated an awful lot of pop culture during its heyday, which didn't last all that long.
The first six Police Academy movies hit theaters at a rate of one per year between and , and they all became frequently rerun cable staples. Plus, the wacky characters and zany humor made them very attractive to kids, despite the raunchy content that earned the first film an R rating. So naturally, Warner Bros. Television served young Police Academy fans with a syndicated animated series because kid shows based on R-rated movies used to be a thing.
The films' main characters Mahoney, Sweetchuck, Tackleberry returned, but the movie stars were replaced with voice actors, and it led to all the requisite ephemera of an '80s animated series, including a tie-in comic book and a line of action figures.
In , three years after Police Academy: Mission to Moscow bombed so hard it killed the big-screen franchise, Police Academy returned in the form of an hour-long syndicated comedy TV series. It ran for just one season, and it's notable only for Michael Winslow reprising his role as Larvell Jones. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol was something of a soft reboot to the series, introducing new characters to the movies in the form of inept civilian volunteers in need of training by the formerly incompetent Police Academy gang.
Not only were some of the actors new to the franchise, they were new to entertainment. Citizens on Patrol marks the film debut of future Saturday Night Live star David Spade as Kyle Rumford, a young criminal and skateboarder who avoids prison time by joining the pilot civilian police program. Spade's stunt double for his skateboarding scenes, at least at first, was world-famous skateboarder Tony Hawk , still just a teenager and in his second-ever movie appearance.
It was a collaboration and a gig that wouldn't last. From to , a Police Academy movie was released each and every spring, but then producers took a five-year break before unleashing the seventh and final film, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, to an indifferent world in But instead of being the last Police Academy movie for years, it could've been the film to reinvent the franchise.
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