Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Plot synopsis:
The police must investigate a series of robberies along a strip of land in the city. The mayor (Kenneth Mars) assigns Captain Harris (G.W. Bailey) and Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) to the case. While on stakeout the Wilson gang, composed of Ace (Gerrit Graham), Flash (Brian Seeman), and Ox (Darwyn Swalve), manages to slip through their fingers. The mayor wants Harris and Proctor to work with Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) to apprehend the gang. Lassard assembles a seven-man team consisting of Hightower (Bubba Smith), Tackleberry (David Graf), Jones (Michael Winslow), Hooks (Marion Ramsey), Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook), Fackler (Bruce Mahler), and Lassard's nephew, Nick (Matt McCoy).
After distributing flyers as to the information of the Wilson gang and getting nowhere, Nick stumbles upon a paper reporting an antique diamond heading to a museum, and gets an idea to use it as bait: however the robbers nab the diamond anyway by cutting a hole in the truck and escaping through the sewer system. Nick then decides to go undercover to get information regarding a possible hideout, but Harris decides to go undercover to get a confession. Despite his fear of heights, Harris goes undercover as a window washer at a tall building and gets a confession of himself on tape after Proctor accidentally knocks him over the balcony.
The robberies are committed by a group of three dimwitted criminals who don't seem to be able to do this on their own, and it's revealed they are being guided by a shadow figure known as the "Mastermind," who speaks to the three behind a wall of glass and uses a voice distortion device. He devises a plan to get the cops out of the way.
Commandant Lassard and his men are later suspended after jewelry from the gang's last robbery is found in Lassard's office, pending an investigation. The gang decides to clear his name by nabbing the gang and the ringleader. Accessing data files from a computer, Nick deduces that the robberies are occurring along a bus route, thus intentionally lowering property values in that part of the city. They also learn that someone must be leaking information to the bad guys, which is why they are always one step ahead of the police.
The police academy force finds and does battle with the Wilson gang, taking down Ace, Flash, and Ox, while Nick chases the leader. A pursuit follows, which leads to Commissioner Hurst's (George Robertson) office. Though the others are fooled by the fact there are two versions of Commissioner Hurst, Nick wasn't fooled and is able to help them point out the real Hurst from the fake with a Pinocchio test. With that, Hightower removes the mask and reveals the "Mastermind" as the mayor. Caught, the mayor admitted that Captain Harris has been unwittingly leaking information during his daily meetings with him and how he could've made billions off the properties if it hadn't for Lassard and his team. Hurst tells Hightower to take the mayor into custody with his gang. He apologizes and reinstates the force, and a plaque is given to honor the officers' bravery the next day. As the movie closes, Harris is sitting in a chair when a string tying the balloon float is cut, lifting his chair and floating him up into the air as he shouts Proctor's name. As he floats away, it is revealed that it was Commander Lassard who actually cut the string.

Tags: comedy, prank

Review:
We all know them from before, and once you've seen one episode, you kinda saw them all.Weak point of the movie is the absence of Mahoney (the star of the series) and Zed (the funniest).
In "Police Academy 6: City Under Siege", the gang's all here to save a crime-ridden city from the wrath of 3 white guys named the Wilson Heights Gang...I imagine this complicated premise was pitched to Warner Bros execs something to the effect of "Um, they like to rob stuff...and they're bad guys.
Oh, and the city's under siege because of them." I know this is slapstick and it was never intentioned to be taken seriously, but even when writing a film like this you have to TRY, at least TRY to write something good!!Anyway, the cast is all here, again, and they're not unlike the line of lower-income, shady low-lifes I see waiting outside the Department of Labor office every morning to pick up their unemployment checks.
There isn't much of a story but what there is of it consists of a gang of 3 goons who work for a MR BIG bringing down property prices by going on a City wide crime-wave with the Academy the only people who can stop them..
Most of the other usual cast remains What with Bubba Smith (hightower) doing his strong man thing, Leslie Easterbrook (Callahan) doing her strong ass-kicking woman thing & The late David Graf (Tackleberry) doing his gung-ho ass-kicking stuff that we've seen in all the other 5 movies so It might get tiresome for hard to please critics, but for a bit of lightweight entertainment that won't tax your Brain too much it's nigh on Unbeatable My vote for what it's worth 7/10.Followed by Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow the last movie which flopped at the Box-office (maybe it was an academy too many for film fans who though they'd suffered enough).
Finally, almost done with the Police Academy sequels, I finished the 6th movie in the series, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, now this movie by no means is the worst movie ever, but it's the weaker of the movies and disappoints more than makes you laugh.
With the earlier sequels, I've been surprised, with all the low ratings, I still was laughing at the movies, just because I think people were taking the movies too seriously or comparing too much to the original Police Academy.
Now the last Police Academy may not have had Mahony, Steve Guttenberg's character, but it still made me laugh, but I miss the old gang, they were what made the sequels a lot of fun.
I also once again missed Zed and Sweetchuck, certain characters just made these movies into fun comedies, but City Under Siege tries too hard.The class is back together to save the city from jewelery thieves, but the plot thickens when they find out that the leader of the gang is connected with the police.
But they find out that there is something deeper than just having the jewels, the thieves are going to own this town unless the police academy stops them.Police Academy 6: City Under Siege still delivers some really good laughs here and there, you always have to love the pranks the class pulls on Harris, G.W. Baily plays them off so well and makes the memorable.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, I recommend it if you are looking to see the series, but as a comedy, it's just alright.3/10.
POLICE ACADEMY 6: CITY UNDER SIEGE is one of the funniest in the POLICE ACADEMY series due to its hilarious characters, great scenes of slapstick, funny lines, and good music.
This is the most exciting movie in the POLICE ACADEMY series since there is a lot more action than there is in the other ones which I like..
Like the last movie, Police Academy 6 starts out with Harris and Proctor on some ridiculous mission to outsmart the rest of the crew and ensure that they get all of the glory for something or other.
At least this time they're not breaking and entering like they were in the last movie, but have stationed them on a stake-out at a location that they are sure is going to be the next hit for the dreaded Wilson Heights Gang who, if nothing else, should definitely find someone else to come up with a threatening name so they'll sound more like a group of hardcore criminals and less like a gated community.
You could argue that the slapstick was the first real narrative story-telling that came along in film, and the Police Academies are no different, they just haven't stood up to the test of time so well.Oh, and they're also hampered by stupid-ass sequels like this one and the next one.
We have another small group of mind-bogglingly stupid bad guys, which is not a bad thing in itself, but apparently someone took my words too seriously when I originally reviewed Police Academy 5 and said that the movies are essentially kid's movies, because in this installment we get a cartoonish villain that is a bizarre combination of the Wizard of Oz and Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget.
At least they didn't have a villain who tried to outdo even the most outlandish 007 villains and like, you know, hold the sun for ransom or something.Again, most of the original cast is back, but I still miss Mahoney and Zed, and the screenwriters (yeah, it took more than one to come up with this thing) unfortunately have no idea what to do with the characters that we've come to know and love laughing at.
But I do have to say that, like part 5, there are some moments in this one that I distinctly remember loving to death when I was about ten years old, like the scene where the huge bad guy who looks like a lumberjack comes outside with an ice-cream cone with like eight scoops of ice cream stacked up on it and goes, "Oh BOY!" but then takes one lick, pushing it off where it lands with an audible splat on the pavement and he goes, "Crapola!"Okay, so it's not funny in writing.
Check this out, besides glorifying the movie like it's some overlooked Oscar winner, director Peter Bonerz (my god, can you imagine having THAT name in junior high school?) lists off the numerous references and homaaaaaages that can be found within its pristine contents, including everything from Orson Welles to Hitchcock himself!Sadly, your brain has to be securely in the "off" position in order to enjoy the movie, but it may add to the comedy just to know that some effort was put in to put those references in there!!.
Michael Winslow and Bubba Smith just aren't enough, and the obnoxious Captain Harris can't save the movie either, and neither can new addition Kenneth Mars.
City Under Siege is the sixth of the Police Academy movies, a series of satires on modern America almost Swiftian in their subtlety.To be honest, as a film anorak, I was tempted to give this one a miss, as I hate watching movies out of sequence.
Possibly the worst is Bruce Mahler as Fackler, an accident-prone cop instigating wearily mistimed and predictable slapstick sequences.What's great about the Police Academy series is how it unites everyone - the humour is so low-brow that even really thick people don't find it funny.
Surely even his own mother wasn't laughing at this stage.However, the semblance of some sort of plot and the presence of three genuine laughs - more than in all the other Police Academy movies stuck together - take this one up to a mighty 3/10..
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.
Another question that constantly springs to mind is where, in the midst of a power grid sabotage, Michael Winslow gets the power to amplify his microphones.As the trivia entry states, this was the last time the characters of Hooks, Hightower, Proctor, and Fackler were seen in this series.
Winslow makes his noises, Graf does his gun-nut routine, Bailey does his pathetic little momma's-boy thing, Hightower stands there looking big, and Matt McCoy tries to pretend he's Steve Guttenberg.
You know a Police Academy film is plumbing a rotten depth when the biggest laughs come from the acts of the criminals, who are on-screen for a total of maybe twenty minutes.All told, I gave Police Academy 6: City Under Siege a one out of ten.
Police academy 6: City under siege i thought was a good movie, the actors and the actresses were brilliant and they are great i think.
A metropolitan crimewave hits the city of our bumbling cadets, and so Moses Hightower (Bubba Smith), Eugene Tackleberry (David Graf), Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow), and Laverne Hooks (Marion Ramsey) are called into action to find the jewel burglar and bring him to justice!
It is evident that Bonerz, like the rest of the directors from this series, has a sense of what makes a funny half-hour television show, but he is lacking the feel for cinematic comedy.There is a big difference.
And that's pretty sad."Police Academy 6: City Under Siege" is not funny at all, and to be brutally honest, that's all there is to know.0/5 stars.
Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film pretty much reused the same old gags of the previous 5 movies in the series with the only exception being that a couple of them had slightly more depth.
Even so, the fact of the matter is that this particular film still wasn't quite as good as the first two movies in the series and for that reason I have rated it as slightly below average..
"Police Academy 6: City Under Siege" is the latest in what I like to call the "Police Academy mini-series".Nothing has really changed in this one...it's the same old police officers trying to make the city a better place and making fools of themselves at the same time courtesy of Capt.
Harris (G.W. Bailey).It just gets stale after a while and I get anxious for the ending to come.Still, the same old gang the I have enjoyed watching since the first "Police Academy" movie are back and it's nice to seem them again..
Didn't some of these actors (George Gaynes, David Graf, Marion Ramsey, etc.) have anything better to do than to keep turning up in "Police Academy" movies?
While it was with the fourth film where things properly got particularly stale, it was from the fifth film where finding redeeming qualities proved to be difficult.'Police Academy 6' is one of the series' worst, with very little to recommend and almost completely laughter-free.
It is just saved from unsalvageable doom by Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith and George Gaynes giving their all, with the best moments provided with Winslow's admittedly one-joke but wry-smile-worthy imitations and noises and the best line being Hightower's wonderfully apt line about bad jokes being where he drew the line.The rest of the acting really isn't good, with the rest of the regulars struggling to bring any freshness to basically one-joke and ridiculously lame-brained characters or having very little to do (especially Leslie Easterbrook and Marion Ramsey reduced to just looking alluring, while GW Bailey is pretty much wasted this time).
The villain is neither fun or threatening (as bad as the fifth film was, Rene Auberjonois actually at least livened things up if only a little) and Kenneth Mars is basically a cartoon.Bigger letdowns are the writing and story.
While Police Academy 6: City Under Siege is certainly no cinematic masterpiece, it is a very entertaining and funny film that gets a bad rap, probably in part to how bad the previous and following films in the series were.
Police Academy 6 is actually, in my opinion, the best of the sequels and is rather funny if you give it a chance.The main characters from the previous film are all here, with Michael Winslow (as Jones), Bubba Smith (as Hightower), David Graf (as Tackleberry), and G.W. Bailey (as Harris) as the main characters, with the other half dozen good supporting actors.
The film is aimed at a younger audience, but adults should enjoy the numerous jokes, especially Harris' overbearing scenes, Jones' sound effects, and Tackleberry's use of firearms and his obvious joy in driving Bigfoot during the awesome chase scene.While maybe the not greatest comedy, if you are looking for some simple fun, I'd say Police Academy 6 is a very good and entertaining film.
It almost seemed to me like the studio tacked this film on just to tie up the loose ends, they should've just let the series go with Police Academy V..
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) D: Peter Bonerz.
Especially Harris and Proctor deliver some good laughs in this one, the bus scenes are pretty funny.
OK, the first Police Academy was pretty reasonable, but all those very bad sequels after that...
If you like a depressive, boring Sunday afternoon, just watch one of the Police Academy movies..
I'm not a big fan of the Police Academy series.
The action and the comedy were equal, the fun of the 80 minutes is masterly, but maybe it wasn't huge and creative as the original, otherwise the people at the time became more than full with 5 movies already.(Police Academy 6: City Under Siege) is nice light time, a perfect movie for my Friday afternoon, and a memory from lovely age was ageing at the time.
A poor comedy that just does what all the other Police Academy films do.
With Lassard's team making good progress in the investigation into the gang behind the crimes, Harris seems more concerned with saving face with the Mayor by trying to show up the rest of the unit.Hard to imagine that anyone would come to the Police Academy series in the sixth film and expect it to be anything but the same old stuff that it has been doing for years.
this one is a lot more exciting than the others i say.it has a lot of danger,{not counting the the part where harris and procter on the sky rise that sort of stuff happends all the time with them clowns)they take a lot of risk in it.when i first seen it i thought the fuuniest thing was when fackler set of the fire works.and the part where johnes and flash where fighting that was the best fight in them movies ever since part 2 where he saves the green grocer from the 2 thugs.and this one is a lot cleaner than the others.but i wish zed and swuitchuck made it in this one..
It includes a lot of good jokes and marvellous acting work of the original cast Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Georges Gaynes, Bubba Smith, G.W. Baily and Proctor.
You wouldn't think that a sixth installment of a film series would be good but Police Academy 6 was great.The precinct is gripped by a crimewave; three crooks are robbing banks and the police can't seem to catch them.
As usual, Harris and Proctor bumble everywhere and it's the other guys who catch the bad guys.The film could not be considered as strong as Parts 1,2,3 and 5 but it is very very good indeed.
This is a movie you should only watch if you want to see what happens when a bunch of old pals get together and decide to play dress-up around old movie sets.The whole gang returns, of course (even Mahler returns as eternally-clumsy Fackler) to make life miserable for Cpt. Harris (Bailey) and try to apprehend a notorious trio of thieves (Moe, Larry and Curly?) whose escalating series of crimes have the "City Under Siege".
Hmm...great idea for a movie?Not for this one.I tell you what, let's make a pact: I won't review any more of the "Police Academy" movies if Hollywood promises to find Bubba Smith better work.The best part of the whole movie?
Police Academy 6 is so bad, that you would rather vomit the contents of your stomach than watch the movie.
I mean, anything from the police officers rapping to a super-strong guy making a bad joke about "Boo who", this movie's jokes are really sub-par.Just, don't watch it.
Bailey does well again as Harris but the few pranks are way too infantile this time.Over all its not a bad film really, its still better than number four and about on par with number five.
The cops along with Lassard, Harris and Proctor try to uncover the crooks and work out who the mastermind is.This film has many more funny moments than 5 and 7, and the characters get a chance to fully exploit their individual traits, juxtaposed against the 3 criminals.
I think that this (and the next in the series, where the silly gang go to Moscow) is two of the worst movies ever made actually.
Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsay, Matt McCoy, G.W. Bailey, Lance Kinsey, Kenneth Mars and George Gaynes star in this 1989 comedy sequel.
In this installment, police misfits, Hightower (Smith), Jones (Winslow), Tackleberry (Graf), Callahan (Easterbrook), Hooks (Ramsay), Harris (Bailey) and Proctor (Kinsey) encounter a trio of criminals working for a mastermind who plans on shutting the city down for profit.
The first time I saw this film, I was 12, and I liked it, largely because Police Academy had been shoved down my throat, thanks to the yearly sequels.Seeing it now, you realise how poor the actual film is, and that the screenwriters couldn't come up with an original idea between them.It's all the same stuff.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.
If you can bring yourself to watch a police academy film make it this one