Sign Me Up...'Police Academy"

Police Academy (1984)

Rated R

Starring Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, Kim Cattrall, G.W. Bailey, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook,

Directed by Hugh Wilson

The Story:

In response to a crisis, the standards for Police Academy entrance are lowered.
A lot.
This is the story of those recruits attending the Police Academy.
Heaven help us all.

There are 2 types of people in this world.

Those that enjoyed Police Academy. And those that are wrong.

I am firmly in the first camp, and I'll give the declining quality of the next 5 installments...

But come on, the first one is gold.

It still holds up, it's still funny, and it's still just as much dumb fun now as it was over 30 years ago.

The cast is filled with great character actors and the so likable he's got a career pass, Steve Guttenberg as the star.

G.W. Bailey is hilarious as Lt. Harris who wants nothing more than these dirtbags to go home.

Rapid fire jokes and situations were the order of the day, and this movie never fails to make me laugh.

It's making the streaming rounds on Netflix as of this writing, which is where I stumbled upon it the other night and thought, "why not"?

It may not be a masterpiece, but it's a guilty pleasure that I had the opportunity to see when it premiered in 1984 (thanks Dad!) and have been a fan of ever since.

Final Grade: B+