1988
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 30 m

1988
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 30 m

Summary Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), flies to Florida to receive an award. In the city he meets the cynical Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. Harris wants to put himself in a favourable light in front of the high military hierarchy but, at the airport, Lassard exchanges his bag with another one...Hilarit...

Directed By: Alan Myerson

Written By: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen Curwick, Barry W. Blaustein, Gene Quintano, David Sheffield

1988
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 30 m

1988
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 30 m

Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach

Name: Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1988-03-18
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Rating: 18
Cast: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings

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Directed By: Alan Myerson

Written By: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen Curwick, Barry W. Blaustein, Gene Quintano, David Sheffield

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Los Angeles Times

Despite the final escape of star Steve Guttenberg, and the loss, long since, of the original director and writers, this is almost a good movie. It's an incremental, heavily qualified success, but "PA 5" is an improvement on the elephantine, witless "2," "3" and "4."

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Variety

Miami field trip only brings a pastel backdrop to the insipid infighting of the boobs in blue.

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Miami Herald

The jokes? Passing gas, large breasts, schoolyard double entendre -- the usual run of recess humor. On the faces of most of the cast, one can clearly read despair, occasionally even irritation. They know: If you're much over 10, Police Academy 5 isn't going to keep you awake. [23 March 1988, p.C7]

By Bill Cosford FULL REVIEW

Time Out

The Apocalypse Now-style Wagnerian soundtrack that accompanies the air boat chase across the Everglades almost raises a smile. Otherwise it's business as usual: fart jokes.

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TV Guide Magazine

POLICE ACADEMY 5 presents a patchwork of ideas borrowed from a score of wittier and better-done comedies, not to mention earlier entries in the series. In short, it's exactly what you would expect it to be.

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Washington Post

Those bumbling boys and girls in blue are back on the streets in Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach. And they're more moronic than ever -- '80s Keystone Kops dropping their pants, breaking wind and parading their big American "mangoes." Nothing is too degrading for these troupers. Gradually the more employable members of the original squad, such as Steve Guttenberg (not that he's so great), have gone on to better assignments. But the desperate have returned to reprise their roles in this fifth-rate rehash of the rather wonderful original. "5" is a comic assault, batteries not included, an insufferable collage of coarse slapstick vignettes.

By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

I didn't laugh once during the entire film-not at the slapstick, not at the humor, all of which is pitched at the preschool level. [25 March 1988, p.A]

By Gene Siskel FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 22 User Ratings

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Production Company Warner Bros.

Release Date Mar 18, 1988

Duration 1 h 30 m

Rating PG

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Tagline Captain Harris is about to lose his trousers and his mind in Miami!

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Kids' Choice Awards, USA

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Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach

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Bubba Smith

Hightower

David Graf

Tackleberry

Michael Winslow

Jones

Leslie Easterbrook

Callahan

Marion Ramsey

Hooks

Janet Jones

Kate

Lance Kinsey

Proctor

Matt McCoy

Nick

G.W. Bailey

Harris

George Gaynes

Lassard

Rene Auberjonois

Tony

George R. Robertson

Hurst

Tab Thacker

House

Archie Hahn

Mouse

James Hampton

Mayor of Miami

Jerry Lazarus

Sugar

Beans Morocco

Bob the Janitor

Dana Mark

Graduating Policewoman

Richard Jasen

Kid with Toy Plane

Ruth Farley

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