Police Academy is what it is, one of the many teen slapstick farce comedies of the 80's that spawned much of the screwball shenanigans that still exists today in these types of movies. It doesn't offer much in the way of story lines, plot, or premise. However, it can still be fun IF (and this is an important if,) you like slapstick comedy.
It's nothing more than a bunch of immature cadets going through basic training at a Police Academy mixed in with the typical college sophomore humor of sex jokes and situations while trying to say to the audience, "Let's see how many moronic elements we can get out of a low-budget comedy to make high school or young college kids say, "hahahaha, this is funny." However, Police Academy's biggest problem is that it's not quality comedy in any way, shape or form. There ARE a few funny situations, but nothing that is memorable or hasn't been done 100 times before in these types of movies. The film also suffers from the lack of any big stars to make it appealing even to the audience that it is trying to reach.
If you are under 20, and like screwball comedy, Police Academy is a one or two shot viewing when there is nothing else on or when the video store is out of the movies you want to see and you find this in a bargain bin somewhere. For other viewers, this is a movie to avoid.
It's nothing more than a bunch of immature cadets going through basic training at a Police Academy mixed in with the typical college sophomore humor of sex jokes and situations while trying to say to the audience, "Let's see how many moronic elements we can get out of a low-budget comedy to make high school or young college kids say, "hahahaha, this is funny." However, Police Academy's biggest problem is that it's not quality comedy in any way, shape or form. There ARE a few funny situations, but nothing that is memorable or hasn't been done 100 times before in these types of movies. The film also suffers from the lack of any big stars to make it appealing even to the audience that it is trying to reach.
If you are under 20, and like screwball comedy, Police Academy is a one or two shot viewing when there is nothing else on or when the video store is out of the movies you want to see and you find this in a bargain bin somewhere. For other viewers, this is a movie to avoid.