Classic Friday : Police Academy 5 : Assignment Miami Beach (1988) 6/10

Starring : Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, Matt McCoy, GW Bailey, George Gaynes
Director : Alan Myerson
Running Time : 87 mins

Cmdt Lassard (Gaynes) is being honoured at the annual police convention, and he and his band of raw police recruits are journeying over to sunny Miami Beach for the party, but when Lassard gets his bag mixed up with that of a diamond smuggler, and soon Lassard is kidnapped by the smuggler and his hopeless sidekicks, and it's left down to the cops from the Police Academy to come to his rescue.

This is definitely one of the worst of the Police Academy movies, even though it does seem to have one of the most consistent plots. Usually the plot is tagged on to the final twenty minutes and the opening is just gag padding, but at least this one has a plot that pretty much starts from the get go. I think it just suffered from the lack of Steve Guttenberg, but at least it's still watchable, unlike Mission To Moscow.

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