Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)

You won't be disappointed!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege is the sixth installment of the Police Academy Series that started on 1984 and has kept going and going, unfortunately Mahoney did not return for Part 5 or this one which was kind of a bummer but everyone else is in it especially goofball Captain Harris played so well by G.W. Baily and Bubba Smith this time has become kind of the main star of this installment which it isn't that bad to say the least. Fans of the Franchise will once again have a huge blast but for everyone else? It's probably a skip and just stick to the original. (10/10)

One thing that struck me about this installment: it has some new jokes! I don't think I've seen the writers coming up with new material since the second one or so. Granted, most of it is tiresome slapstick, but at least it's new tiresome slapstick. They have dodged some other bullets too. Our heroes don't go on trips anymore, they don't have romantic subplots that go nowhere. They just solve crimes, and are comically bad at it. I even wanted to know who the leak was, the plot is more compelling than usual. Especially Harris and Proctor deliver some good laughs in this one, the bus scenes are pretty funny. The mayor is also a funny character. Generally the post-Mahoney era is rather pointless, but this is by far the best movie of those three.

Never saw the one where they go to Russia and do not really care too. They at this point really were stretching the premise thin with this one. However, they do try some differing things here so it is not the worst of the series that I have seen. Basically, the academy is just a part of the title to associate it with the other movies. The cast is the same familiar faces and the jokes are about the same too. Here though they are trying to stop a crime wave involving these guys who map everything out and leave very little evidence. There is a head guy who is behind it all and who he is adds a bit of mystery, but not much this is a comedy after all not a crime mystery movie. In the end Hightower has to fight someone just as strong as he is, Takleberry must face down someone as good with guns as he is, and Michael Winslow's character must take down someone as good in karate as he is. After this movie they would thankfully take a break from making these movies, and it looked like it had finally ended until Mission to Moscow would come out. Never saw it so I can not review it, and I am not going to try to track it down just so I can see and review all this movies.

This time the pretext is a rip off of Police Academy 2, with a group of thieves starting a crime wave, while facing police corruption in the city in this atrocious sequel which leaves the viewer begging for death. This sequel is without a doubt one of the lamest comedies ever, the humor is dated, the actors bored and no laugh is contained in this horse manure. One could call this a really bad action movie, with the humor it contains. This is seriously the pits, as bad as movies get and just think Mission To Moscow was even worse. Of course that's why this I voted it a 2 rather than a 1.City Under Siege, indeed!1/5 Matt Bronson