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Police Academy

1984

Hugh Wilson

Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, G.W. Bailey ...

5.8

23,718

Comedy A big city mayor-elect, eager to make good on a campaign promise to increase-the-peace, waives entry requirements for the police force. The result: mishap, mayhem and mismanagement, as the force is flooded with bumbling buffoons, idealistic idiots, and quixotic quipsters. The crooks never had it so good.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It's] rude, crude, noisy, sometimes disarmingly funny, liberated-sexist low comedy."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The absolute pits of this genre, the least funny movie that could possibly have been inspired by 'Airplane!' or any other movie."	NEG
United Kingdom	Mark Dinning Empire	"Fun comic caper with splashes of naïve humour and a dollop of nudity thrown in."	POS
United States	Andrew Blair Den of Geek	"It might just be the weakest comedy to ever spawn six sequels."	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The poverty of imagination, ambition, and visual detailing is suffocatingly oppressive"	NEG
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"The most uproarious film to come along in years. You have the right to remain silent, but you can't help but laugh out loud.	POS

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