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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training

1986
Comedy, Crime
1h 23m
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Rated 10 Feb 2008
62
7th
Is this the one where Mauser is giving Mahoney a hard time? Because that's my favorite!!!!!
Rated 08 Oct 2012
40
3rd
I think that the premise of this movie is really pretty believable. Budget problems cause the closure of one of the Police Academies and they have a competition to see which one will be closed. Simple. On paper, it sounds like a good idea. The cast, as always, is still pretty likable. Bobcat Goldthwait got a much bigger role in this movie and I'm sure, at the time, his comedy style was much more likable. Marion Ramsey does her line, Guttenburg is likable, and Winslow makes computer sounds.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
15
2nd
Very poor.
Rated 05 Mar 2007
10
0th
So, having witnessed 1 and 2, the thinking is: "Terrific! Yet more please" Someday, a rain will come and wash all the movie produce - I mean scum from the streets.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
54
36th
Adding some new characters breathes some life into the series, but it's still essentially the same formula as the first two.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
8th
WHY WOULD YOU DESTROY A GREAT ORIGINAL? WHY? THE JOKES WERE ONLY FUNNY THE FIRST TIME! QUIT IT ALREADY
Rated 14 Aug 2007
56
49th
You hate to admit it, but the Police Academy movies always get a laugh out of you. Especially whenever the Blue Oyster is involved.
Rated 15 Aug 2007
25
17th
Where the series starts going downhill. Had it not been for the still hilarious antics of Michael Winslow and Bob Goldthwait, this would've been a pretty bad film. It's all just the same, really. Which isn't good considering this is just the 3rd in the series.
Rated 23 Aug 2007
37
38th
ok
Rated 24 Aug 2007
65
57th
It's early Police Academy, before the suck completely took over. Just dumb fun.
Rated 11 Dec 2007
55
41st
Follow the line of other movies of the series and, in spite of not being a great thing, it has a few quite funny moments.
Rated 15 Dec 2007
32
10th
BOOOOOOOURnSSSS
Rated 07 Mar 2008
21
17th
While being one of those films which is strangely entertaining despite numerous flaws, it can't be seen as anything but a reasonably poor effort. Seemingly only doing half the job (only some scenes are funny, a couple of characters interesting) but ultimately the whole formula fails to deliver on the third run through. Despite this there are still some entertaining performances, notably by Winslow and Goldthwait. Tochi was pretty good as well, but everyone else ranges from mediocre to poor.
Rated 10 Mar 2008
50
28th
A competition between two shitty police academies. What a great way to determine how to train the future of your city's police force.
Rated 26 May 2008
23
7th
Not too sure who's in training here? Could it be the writers, or the actors? A close call. If you like juvenile inuendo I'll give you one. Otherwise it's a waste of video
Rated 27 Jun 2008
22
16th
bad movie
Rated 20 Aug 2008
50
30th
x0
Rated 16 Sep 2008
80
68th
Probably the worst-made movie I've ever liked
Rated 30 Jan 2009
84
52nd
I wouldn't be the man I am today without Mahoney, Tackleberry, Sweet Chuck, and Zed. They all comprise a little part of my soul.
Rated 15 Mar 2009
0
3rd
Moronic.
Rated 07 Jul 2009
48
13th
not good, not bad really
Rated 23 Jul 2009
40
7th
Here they started being really crappy.
Rated 31 Aug 2009
80
54th
yeah, good for a laugh... in the 80s
Rated 04 Dec 2009
43
12th
Silly fun worth a look.
Rated 14 Aug 2010
65
30th
Funny!
Rated 22 Sep 2010
13
4th
The true story of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Rated 25 Feb 2011
35
23rd
There's practically a form letter way of describing the three Police Academy movies which were bad, but not embarrassing, "Bobcat Goldthwait and Michael Winslow were good. The movie was bad." I think I heard somewhere that the reason for that was because the filmmakers didn't write for Bob and Michael and just let them adlib their scenes. It may not be true, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was, especially when you compare the quality of their work with the quality of the film it appears in.
Rated 27 Mar 2011
0
0th
Why did I ever watch these films?
Rated 03 Aug 2011
58
13th
One of the better Police Academy movies, but everything that makes one of the series idiosyncratic in any way are the same attributes that makes this series a one trick pony that ended up tired half way through the original.
Rated 12 Sep 2011
24
6th
I've legit seen this.
Rated 18 Jun 2012
40
14th
Bout what you'd expect
Rated 15 Jul 2015
14
11th
I have to admit that I have seen them all. Every single Police Academy. When they were fresh, and I was... hmm... fresh. And those times I did not believe that Michael Winslow was doing his stuff without added sound effects. :7
Rated 15 Aug 2017
58
42nd
(Viewed on 3/03/12): P.A 3 has one of the better plots in the franchise and wisely brings back Easterbrook and expands the roles of Zed and Sweetchuck, who share a number of hilarious scenes. On the downside the new recruits are hit and miss--Tochi is the only clear winner as Nogata, an anachronistic Japanese stereotype--and there are simply too many characters being juggled simultaneously. Paris moves the action along fairly reliably, but the series was beginning to show its seams.
Rated 15 Aug 2020
21
4th
Even worse than I remember. Points for the final jetski chase that isn't 100 % awful.
Rated 08 Nov 2021
48
17th
I'm a fan of the franchise and BIT does start reasonably well with a decent rival academy setup and some early laughs especially the Sweetchuck and Zed bits. Then it just goes off a cliff in every aspect, from the storyline and doing zero with the rivalry, a lack of gags and culminating in a bizarrely long and boring jetski climax after which the film literally ends a few seconds later without any real enjoyable moment of triumph.

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