Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

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 | Humorous Female Cop | Sergeant | Nutty Cop

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

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	...	Capt. Thaddeus Harris
Bob Goldthwait	...	Officer Zed (as Bobcat Goldthwait)
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:

G.W. Bailey makes his return as Harris.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The stadium they lift Proctor into is clearly being constructed on the outside, but he is lifted into a full stadium as a game is about to start.

Quotes:

Captain Harris: [finding Zed and Laura by the pool] This is not a spawning pool!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Naked Movie (2002)

Soundtrack:

Rock The House

A Big Letdown

The first three Police Academy films were brilliant and extremely funny. Police Academy 4 was unexceptional.

It does have it's good points; we see the return of Harris, who is now a Captain and Zed continues his crazy antics but there's nothing particularly funny or memorable in this film. The first three films had you laughing again and again but Part 4 was lacking anything truly funny.

The ending was a bit of a letdown compared to the climaxes for the first three films.

It's also goodbye to Steve Guttenberg as Carey Mahoney who quit the series after this film.

Police Academy 4 was painfully average. It will probably be a disappointment to fans of the first three films.