Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Jerry Paris

Writers:

Neal Israel (characters creator) &
Pat Proft (characters creator) ...

Release Date:

21 March 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Run for cover!

Plot:

The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Police Academy | Boxing | Humorous Female Cop | Party

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Steve Guttenberg	...	Sgt. Carey Mahoney
Bubba Smith	...	Sgt. Moses Hightower
David Graf	...	Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry
Michael Winslow	...	Sgt. Larvelle Jones
Marion Ramsey	...	Sgt. Laverne Hooks
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Lt. Debbie Callahan
Art Metrano	...	Comdt. Mauser
Tim Kazurinsky	...	Cadet Sweetchuck
Bob Goldthwait	...	Cadet Zed (as Bobcat Goldthwait)
George Gaynes	...	Comdt. Eric Lassard - Midcity Police Academy
Shawn Weatherly	...	Cadet Karen Adams
Scott Thomson	...	Sgt. Chad Copeland
Brant von Hoffman	...	Sgt. Kyle Blanks (as Brant Van Hoffman)
Bruce Mahler	...	Sgt. Douglas Fackler
Ed Nelson	...	Governor Neilson

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:6 | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Canada:PG | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:6 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Long Island Sound, New York, USA

Company:

Police Academy Productions

Trivia:

It took Leslie Easterbrook (Callahan) four hours just to learn how to start one of the jet skis for the final chase scene.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: This movie is set in the United States, but when Lassard is looking through his binoculars at the regatta, you can see the CN Tower (from Toronto Ontario Canada) in the background.

Quotes:

[at Cmdt.Mauser's Mid City Police Academy; Mauser is doing inspection on his beret clad cadets.]
Cmndt. Mauser: Good tall..... Good Strong.
[stops and goes back to Nogata]
Cmndt. Mauser: And who might you be?
Cadet Nogata: Atomical Nogata of Tochikawa Nogatas. And is this your lovely wife?
Cmndt. Mauser: [furious] Proctor.
Capt. Proctor: Yes, sir.
Cmndt. Mauser: What's the story about Fu Manchu?
Capt. Proctor: [looks through the attendance] Fu manchu. I don't have a Fu Manchu.
Cmndt. Mauser: I'm talking about the stir fried shrimp from out of town.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Slanted Screen (2006)

Soundtrack:

El Bimbo

They're "Back" and they're bad....

While still suffering from the humor limitations of being rated PG, "Police Academy 3" has sight gags enough to make it worth watching a few times (at least more often than "Part II").

The gang's all here and trying to train a new line of cadets in their own image (poor cadets) while Lassard (Gaynes) tends to his goldfish and tools about in his modified golf cart.

Even Bobcat Goldthwait returns as Zed, this time training to be a force of good. His scenes breathe a lot of life into this affair, as he screams at doors until they fall down, terrorizes his fellow cadets, hot wires police cars with his teeth and sings at the most inopportune times.

Everyone else has at least one good scene, maybe two. And considering how many are in the cast, that leaves room for a lot of good scenes. Even Georgina Spelvin is back from the original and, bless her, she makes good, too (though not as hilarious as in the original).

This is about as good as the sequels get, so look no further for laughs than "Police Academy 3: Back in Training". Definitely Bubba Smith's finest hour.

Seven stars. Good job, officers.