Classic Friday : Police Academy (1984) 8/10

Starring : Steve Guttenburg, Kim Cattrall, G W Bailey, Bubba Smith, Donovan Scott, George Gaynes, Andrew Rubin, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Michael Winslow
Director : Hugh Wilson
Running Time : 93 mins

The mayoress of New York decides to relax the rules for allowing candidates into the Police Academy, resulting in a major influx of below average, obese and lazy recruits showing up in the hope of landing a job. Amongst the new recruits is Carey Mahoney (Guttenburg), who has been told that joining the police force is his only option to doing jail time, but he soon discovers that perhaps being a cop isn’t as bad as he first thought when he meets the lovely Karen Thompson(Cattrall).

The first and easily the best of the Police Academy series, this introduced us to a large number of the characters who would be so recognisable throughout the late 80s. The thing that probably made the series fall apart was the fact that the writers started getting a lot sillier after this first instalment, although I still enjoyed the majority of the movies.

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