The ‘revenge of the nerds’ification of this series really needs to be studied. Police Academy 3 is…well, I can’t honestly say it’s a ‘new’ movie, because…itreally isnt. What this is is elements from the first 2 Police Academy movies, polished up and slammedtogether in some kind of unholy union…and it works…but I just spent most of the credits asking myself ‘why’?

The plot? There’s budget cuts happening in the city and it’s finally hit the force! With our beloved Police Academy and a rival school under heavy evaluation, and one of the academies for the chop!

As such, our old friends from the force are pulled back to the Academy to train te next generation of cop and wouldn’t you know it! Is mainly bit part actors who played members of the public from Police Academy 1 and 2! But when the rival Academy sends two saboteurs in to try and wreck up the place, it’ll take more than some funny voice effects to save the day!

And again…the only question I really had was…Why? Technically, id put this on par with the last film, and I will say that it’s consistent across the full runtime on pacing and jokes. But a lot of the humour here is retrod ground, and while I will say that the elements pinched from the last two movies are much more polished here, it doesn’t make the comedy better. In some cases it makes it worse.

I didnt really laugh at all through this film. It had good intentions and was a fun enough watch. But it isnt really trying to do anything new, and making something work smoother and time better doesnt always mean it IS better than when it was originally done.

Oh and the racism is back again more than the last film…huzzah!…

Ultimately, I’d say if you’d seen the first two, this is fine, but non essential. If you only have time to see one Police Academy film. This covers the bestow what’s come before it…and I don’t say that as a compliment.

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/police-academy-3-back-in-training/