Classic Friday : Police Academy 3 : Back In Training (1986) 6/10

Starring : Steve Guttenburg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Art Metrano, Marion Ramsey, George Gaynes, Bob Goldthwait
Director : Jerry Paris
Running Time : 80 mins

Due to drastic budget cuts, only one Police Academy in the area can be kept open, so the raw recruits of Lassard's (Gaynes) academy, led by the charismatic Carey Mahoney (Guttenburg), have to fight to keep their academy open, and try to stop Mauser (Metrano) from beating them at their own game.

Basically this is almost a complete remake of the first Police Academy. Some of the scenes are exactly the same, but slightly changed so as to be an homage rather than an outright rip off, and perhaps also as a way of trying to show that the new recruits will be as bad as the old ones. Sadly this really didn't work as well as the first two instalments, but it did bring back some good characters from the second movie.

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