POLICE ACADEMY 3: BACK IN TRAINING (1986)

Due to budgetary constraints, the still unnamed city (which this time looks like Toronto) must shut down one of their police academies. Which one could it possibly be? The one from the first film or the one we’ve never heard of until just a few seconds ago? Nobody knows. They’re gonna have to compete to find out. And by compete, you’d think it would be some kind of police Olympics or something with a score to follow, but nope it’s just some boring judges. So anyway, shit happens and Commandant Lassard calls in some of the cops from the first film to teach the new cadets. It’s literally just a bunch of shit we’ve already seen before except this time with zero nudity and lamer jokes. For example: a citizen is unhappy with a payphone, so psychopath Tackleberry shoots the phone; cadet Zed is so crazy that instead of using a key to start a police car, he hot-wires it with his mouth instead and one character (Nogata) is so smitten by the size of Callahan’s breast that he messes up what he was going to say. I mean, this is some real knee-slapper shit right there.

It's kind of surprising how fast this series turned to shit. Not that part 1 was amazing or anything, but it was at least entertaining. Part 3 though is barely even watchable. Early in the film, a fly lands on a woman’s face (how does she not feel that?) so Commandant Lassard just hauls off and hits the woman in the face so hard that she falls out of her chair! How is that even funny? Dude just assaulted a woman.

Zero nudity, zero laughs, dumb story, dumb characters, cheesy acting, dead on arrival humor. I don’t even know what the fuck was going on in the making of this movie. Like what about it did the filmmakers think that audiences wanted to see any of this? But it did make money, so what the fuck do I know?

I one part of the movie, some of the cadets are chilling out in the rec room watching V on television. When that happened, I remember thinking that I wish I was watching V instead myself. Now, after watching the rest of this clunker, I wish I had flipped over to V. Oh yeah, Tacleberry walked by and shot the television.

Part 1 - Police Academy (1984)
Part 2 - Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
Part 4 - Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Part 5 - Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)
Part 6 - Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
Part 7 - Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)