Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

one of my absolute favorites!

Just so...so bad

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The third installment of the Police Academy series falls a little short compared to the first two movies, but it is still quite entertaining! Especially because Bobcat Goldthwait aka Zed now also joined the police force. If you found him too crazy in the last part, this will not change now, because he hasn't changed either! Also Tim Kazurinsky aka Sweetchuck found its way into the uniform and he Bobcat are incredibly funny together. The role of Brian Tochi nowadays would be marked as politically incorrect, but thankfully we're in the year 1986 here. Back then people were not so buttoned up and even though Brian only plays a supporting role, he makes you smile with his performance.

In an effort to cut costs the decision is made to eliminate one of the state's two police academies. As a result, a special task force is sent to both academies to determine which one is the best. The first police academy is headed by "Commandant Lassard" (George Gaynes) while the other is run by the villain in the previous movie, "Commandant Mauser" (Art Metrano). Being the good guy that he is, Commandant Lassard has every intention of playing by the rules and in that regard he hires some of his best former cadets to hopefully save his academy from the chopping block. Unfortunately, Commandant Mauser is perfectly willing to do whatever it takes to win and for that reason he has two of his own men infiltrate the other academy in order make it look bad. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film fails to distinguish itself from the previous two movies in large part due to the fact that it rehashes the same worn-out gags without hardly any variance at all. A joke gets old after the first time or two. Add in a very lengthy and boring chase scene at the end and even the presence of Bobcat Goldthwait (as "Zed") couldn't save this movie. Below average.

Third times a charm as we head back to the Police Academy for more training with yet more new recruits. Yep once again the best of the boys in blue are called back to campus to help out Lassard. Pretty much all the cast are back again (impressive) as this time Lassard and his favourites must battle Mauser and his own recruits.Confused? well I don't blame ya, it appears that from out of nowhere there are now two police academies in this fictional city. One we all know of and the other run by Mauser, despite the fact this was never mentioned in the previous two films by anyone including Mauser. So both academies are pitched against each other as the city can't afford to run both and one must go. Not too sure why Mauser's cadets are dressed in military type uniforms though, surely they'd all be the same.This equals the same spiel as we got in the first film, and when I say the same I mean the same. Almost all the new recruit sequences from the first film are reenacted yet again in this films beginning. Now you may think this sounds like poor writing but its actually quite neat. For example in the first film we saw Fackler's wife trying to stop him from going to the academy, in this film the sequence is reversed and we see Fackler trying to stop his wife. We also get a role reversal for Goldthwait as Zed the gang leader from the second film plus Sweetchuck is back for them to continue their little comedy duo. We even see the return of Tackleberry's girlfriends wacky family, gotta give it to the continuity in these films.The film does admittedly consist of the same kind of thing we saw in the first film really, the recruits going through the same training that we've seen before like martial arts with Jones, high speed driving, voice commands etc...all on the same location as the first film too! so there's a lot of deja vu. Again like previous films there are pratfalls and gags, this time the main one being Mauser losing his eyebrows and having to wear women's makeup for the rest of the film. Again I can't deny its quite funny and made all the more funny by the brilliant Art Metrano once again.Metrano is brilliant again and Kinsey plays off him well as Proctor, these two are still one of the best things in the franchise for this film and the second.These films are extremely formulaic, identikit films really (hey it seemed to work), all the usual buffoonery eventually leads to the big showdown sequence in the finale where the new recruits prove themselves against the odds. This time its a water based chase sequence with jet ski's, motorboats and absolutely loads of people falling into the water. Guess what...they win, save the day and all become fine police officers whilst keeping Lassard's academy alive.Everything you would expect is here just to keep people interested in their favourite characters. Despite the usual fluff this is probably the last decent PA film before things just get a bit too factory line conveyor belt crapola. The plot isn't too bad, having all the training again is a bit tired but the two academies fighting each other is a nice angle and the finale is hokey as hell but it looks quite good, they know how to make a set piece look good. The first film to get a PG rating but it manages to keep its head above the water.6/10

Ugh! The Police Academy films are simply the worst thing I've seen in my life.Of course, this movie sin't the exception, being another unnecessary addition to a lame franchise that was bad from the beginning. All the jokes from this movie were dumb, idiotic and unfunny and everything about this terrible movie was dire and unwatchable.I have to say that while I'm not very much into 80's movies (An overrated decade for cinema, but no so much as the 70's) but this was pretty much the very bottom of the barrel. In many ways, this wasn't anything better than modern garbage as "Date Movie" or "Meet the Spartans". In many ways, I think that this could be even worse than those two movies.0/10