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- 1989
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 24 m
- 1989
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 24 m
Summary The funky cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.
Directed By: Peter Bonerz
Written By: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen Curwick
- 1989
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 24 m
- 1989
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 24 m
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
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5.6
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Summary The funky cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.
Directed By: Peter Bonerz
Written By: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen Curwick
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
16
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
There are some witty moments, as when the straight man, Proctor, played as usual by Lance Kinsey, uses a squeaky rubber squeegie to wash a window while his partner, Harris (G. W. Bailey), holds a stethoscope to the window to eavesdrop on a conversation taking place on the other side. But most of what takes place in Police Academy 6, from the flying billiard balls to the exploding cigars, are things you have seen someplace before. [3 March 1989, p.1-17]
Director Peter Bonerz and writer Stephen J. Curwick (the latter taking his second Academy shift) both cut their teeth on TV sitcoms, and it shows. Rarely has a film cried out so desperately for a laughtrack.
Except there are all these dumb pranks even a third-grade schoolboy would be too embarrassed to commit - putting glue on chairs, making silly faces and stupid noises, setting off fireworks at the precinct house. [13 March 1989, p.5D]
Surely the nadir of the rehash genre, a string of unconnected party pieces by a cast whose world weariness would imply that they know exactly how cynical this whole venture has become.
On the plus side, POLICE ACADEMY 6 is skillfully photographed by Charles Rosher, Jr., and has a very good soundtrack, supplied by Robert Folk. Unfortunately, high production values are wasted on films this slow-paced and silly.
This is probably worse than you’d expect, even from a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel.
This is comedy so insidious it could scarcely be less than diabolically inspired; to know these 84 minutes is to know an endless living death. [14 March 1989, p.C6]
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User Score
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Based on 22 User Ratings
5.6
41% Positive
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Production Company
Warner Bros.
Release Date Mar 10, 1989
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating PG
Tagline THE FUNNIEST COPS ARE FUNNIER THAN EVER! They're Undercover To Unmask The Mastermind of Crime!
