Police Academy really doesn’t deliver much excitement. It just didn't strike me as funny, although I generally understand why certain films might appeal to some viewers—that isn’t the case here. Considering this is a well-known series, I suppose people like these kinds of movies, so I am somewhat taken aback. To my mind, it comes across as a fairly weak attempt. The characters seem to have one defining characteris…

I’m certain this movie started what became an important comic series from the eighties and nineties. I recall that, until the early 2000s, movies from this series were frequently shown on television, and they still pop up regularly on cable channels. Unlike a lot of other films from that time, it seems to me that these hold up well and haven’t become dated. The writing was really helpful because it was quite good,…