Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)

Director:

Jim Drake

Writers:

Neal Israel (characters)
Pat Proft (characters)

Release Date:

3 April 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Take off with the original cast... and some new civilian recruits as they take to the streets and the skies to fight crime.

Plot:

The misfit Police Academy graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Police Academy | Understaffed | Nutty Cop | Breaking The Fourth Wall

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Steve Guttenberg	...	Sgt. Carey Mahoney
Bubba Smith	...	Sgt. Moses Hightower
Michael Winslow	...	Sgt. Larvelle Jones
David Graf	...	Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry
Tim Kazurinsky	...	Officer Sweetchuck
Sharon Stone	...	Claire Mattson
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Lt. Debbie Callahan
Marion Ramsey	...	Sgt. Laverne Hooks
Lance Kinsey	...	Lt. Proctor
G.W. Bailey	...	Captain Harris
Bobcat Goldthwait	...	Officer Zed
George Gaynes	...	Cmndt. Eric Lassard
Derek McGrath	...	Butterworth
Scott Thomson	...	Sgt. Chad Copeland
Billie Bird	...	Mrs. Lois Feldman

Also Known As:

Citizens on Patrol: Police Academy 4 (UK) (poster title)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:6 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (alternate rating) | Finland:K-10 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:12 (video re-rating) (2004) | UK:PG (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Burleigh Falls, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Originally supposed to be filmed immediately after Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986), but production was held up by the death of Part 3's director, Jerry Paris.

Goofs:

Continuity: As Tackleberry jumps out of the biplane onto the balloon he is wearing a parachute. In the next scene, as he rappels down the balloon, it is gone.

Quotes:

Captain Harris: What are you looking at, you... peckerhead!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in I Want Candy (2007)

Soundtrack:

Let's Go To Heaven In My Car

Best sequel and at least it was better then part 3

OK. here we go. This movie has the same feel of the original, which was if i say so myself, a funny movie. this one, is the best sequel and is just as funny. It's pretty much the same thing as all of the sequels but It works, it made me laugh.

The plot is, lassard is making a citizens on patrol program, which is a bunch of citizens are put through training and act like cops or something like that. I suck at remembering plots. It's a police academy sequel, It doesnt need a good plot. Our good friends Harris and Proctor try to ruin them, and some of the citizens in the movie were pretty funny.

This was the best of all of the average to bad sequels the original police academy movie got. If you liked the original or ANY of the sequels you should pick this one up. 7/10