Six entries into the ‘Police Academy’ franchise, and I began to ask myself profound questions; ‘Who am I?’, ‘Why did I choose to subject myself to this way of living?’, ‘Do people truely understand suffering?’…The list goes on, but my patience does not.

This time around a shady crime lord is orchestrating a mass crimewave of the city utilising henchment with high tech gadgets to pilfer valuables. The mayors at his wits end, and so; he calls for the best, and the best? Is the ever decreasing circle of Police Academy veterans who could be bothered to turn up. Hilarity ensues…

And thats basically it, Like the last film, this is less a coherent 3 act plot and more a series of really bad comedy sketches vaguely linked together, 90% of the film is just Harris getting pranked or our cops wandering around suburban locations watching people do things.

This one in particular is weird, our ‘known’ cops turn up, but barely get any comedy material, they drift in and out of the film frequently, like the writers forgot the characters were even in the movie. Not ONE of them gets a good laugh, and…again; this script feels less like an actual plot and more like a series of sketch shows from someone who watched ‘The Naked Gun’ for the first time, and wanted to do that with non of the talent or scope.

No real big grand finale showdown either this time…they reveal who the crime lord is and…thats about it.

Even the cine and direction was kind of bland by this point and its clear they absolutely should have stopped two movies back…but here we are.

I think I marginally prefer Police Academy 6 over Police Academy 5…because they at least PRETEND that the film isnt an excuse to steal money from the studio to go on a two week all paid vacation…But even so…this was VERY thin on the ground and a real slog to get through at 80 minutes long…DEFINITELY not recommended.

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