I mean, on the one hand this is terrible filmmaking. On the other, if a film delivers what its core audience are craving and satisfies them, who are the rest of us to judge?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 18, 2025

It’s the same-old same-old, only somehow slightly worse.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 25, 2023

Jim Drake is credited with the direction and Gene Quintano with the script, though they'd probably appreciate it if you kept it to yourself.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2014

What's so amazing about the Police Academy movies is that they keep being made even though they stopped being funny after the hilarious original.

| Oct 22, 2014

Director Jim Drake keeps things moving so quickly, one barely has time to notice just how stale the jokes here are.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 3, 2009

Oh dear...oh dear, oh dear...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 3, 2009

Script is merely a collection of gags tied together by the slightest suggestion of a story.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2006

More of the same from the wackiest police force on the streets, and their newly recruited civilian helpers.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 16, 2005

They really did just keep getting worse and worse.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 3, 2005

Quite possibly the least essential movie ever made. A call to arming the elderly.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2004

Not a highlight of the series. Loses the fun feel of incompetent cops in a complicated citizen plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 9, 2003

There's nothing remotely arresting about the recycled and pointless roguish antics being drudged up once again in another tired and tedious Police Academy sequel. This bunch should lock the cell door and throw away the kooky keys!

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2003

The new players, like the original ones (who are still here in full force), are limited to one-shtick roles and are sometimes even more limited than that.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 26, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 30, 2002

Just when you think American film comedy has hit the bottom of the barrel, it makes a supreme effort and keeps sinking.

| Jan 1, 2000