Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

1988 "Hold everything! The cadets are dropping in on Miami Beach for an all new adventure."
4.6| 1h30m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 17 March 1988 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/police-academy-5-assignment-miami-beach/
Synopsis

The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami Beach for Commandant Lassard to be honored with a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement. Things take a turn when Lassard unknowingly ends up in possession of stolen diamonds from a jewel heist.

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Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
gwnightscream Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsay, Matt McCoy, Janet Jones, Rene Auberjonois, G.W. Bailey, Lance Kinsey and George Gaynes star in this 1988 comedy sequel. Commandant Lassard (Gaynes) is selected to visit Miami, Florida for a convention honoring him as policeman of the decade and learns he has reached the retirement age. He invites cops, Hightower (Smith), Jones (Winslow), Tackleberry (Graf), Callahan (Easterbrook) and Hooks (Ramsay) with him. Harris (Bailey) and Proctor (Kinsey) decide to take a private plane and get into mishaps. The misfits also encounter a jewel thief (Auberjoinois) and his 2 lackeys who kidnap Lassard who thinks it's all a police demonstration, but eventually realizes it's the real deal. McCoy plays Lassard's nephew, Nick who is a cop and Jones plays Kate, a cop who Nick Falls for. This isn't a bad sequel and Rene is great in it. I still recommend this.
seghers Which is worse? A. A zombie apocalypse, or B. being forced at gunpoint to watch all Police Academy movies in succession? You have 10 minutes to decide. With option A, The zombies are the fast, brain-eating kinds. With option B, you do get bathroom breaks and occasional snacks and beverages. You are not allowed to look away, and you must not cover your ears or eyes through the entire duration. Since nobody has ever survived either option, this is a very difficult decision. I would go with option A, since death would come quickly. With option B, you would live for many more years, forever haunted with the reality of the extreme, inhuman - yet also amazingly shallow - depths of what some consider entertainment.
SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Choosing plot over simply adding in numerous characters proves to be the downfall of the Police Academy series. Without Guttenberg there's no clear anchor for the film. We get the clichéd and simple (though still charming) side characters in abundance. Matt McCoy tries to fill Guttenberg's shoes, but we're not buying it. Callahan gets a bit more screen time which is always nice, and a Miami setting does her character justice. The final scenes of the series have included foot chases, airplanes, jet skis.etc. So now we have a hovercraft chase. Gaynes has more to do, but people such as Winslow are just on repeat. It's amazing that they will try the kung-fu voice over joke 5 films in a row and expect it to work. Not a difficult watch, and it does have an alligator fight, but this vehicle is low on fuel.
s-woodier This film had me in stitches!!! Literally. In my outrage at how awful the film was, I left the cinema early, grumbling and grasping around in the darkened auditorium. I passed a famous golfer who was sitting in my aisle, however I slipped on one of his loose golf balls and tumbled to the floor. The whole cinema audience started laughing! They were pleased that they had gained at least one laugh from their miserable experience. Such a shame that a man breaking his back in real life is funnier than Police Academy 5. I was visited by the golfer some months later, he arrived at my hospital ward. He had brought me some grapes and a copy of Police Academy 7...