Police Academy 3: Back in Training

Plot synopsis:
The film begins in a large garage structure, where Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) and Commandant Mauser (Art Metrano) meet up with former cadets, (now Sgts.) Chad Copeland (Scott Thomson) and Kyle Blankes (Brant van Hoffman). It seems one of the two police academies is getting the axe due to the state government's unwillingness to continue financing two academies, and Mauser wants Copeland and Blankes to make sure Lassard screws up. The men agree to the plan, knowing this may be their only chance at revenge at Lassard for (somewhat deservingly) graduating them at the bottom of their class. Afterwards, Mauser and Proctor find themselves and their car stuck inside the garage (as they were forewarned it was closing soon), but when they both get out to try to forcibly open the gate arm, the car falls out of park and starts rolling backwards down the ramp, while Proctor tries futilely to stop it.
After the governor's speech in which he will appoint a committee to evaluate which of the two academies should remain open, Mauser starts getting an edge by kissing up to the governor (offering the committee an escort, showing governor pages of useful tactics, etc.). However, Sgt. Jones (Michael Winslow) quickly and discreetly humiliates Mauser with his unintelligible moaning and noises that sound like belching, prompting Chief Hurst to reprimand him for his behavior. Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) gets an idea on how to win: along with now Sgt. Jones and Lt. Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook), he calls back Sgt. Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Sgt. Hooks (Marion Ramsey), Sgt. Hightower (Bubba Smith), and Sgt. Tackleberry (David Graf) to help train the new recruits. Among the new recruits are Sgt. Fackler's wife (Debralee Scott), whom Sgt. Fackler is against being trained to be a police officer (mirroring her feelings and actions from the first movie), Sweetchuck (Tim Kazurinsky) and Zed (Bobcat Goldthwait) (who have history from the second movie as a meek small business owner being harassed by a gang, led by Zed, who ran the block his business was on), Karen Adams (Shawn Weatherly), and Tackleberry's brother-in-law Bud Kirkland (Andrew Paris). Tomoko Nogata (Brian Tochi) is at first a recruit of Mauser's academy, but Mauser transfers him in with Lassard's academy instead in hopes of sabotaging the latters' academy further.
After a few weeks of training, Nogata is lovestruck over Callahan, and Sweetchuck contemplates quitting after Zed, whom he was forced to room with, drives him crazy (but Tackleberry talks him out of it and takes him under his wing). Copeland and Blankes make the recruits do things that would make the committee think they are incompetent. Mauser wants them out on the field soon, knowing the committee will be there. The recruits fail and are teased by Mauser and Proctor. However, Mahoney gets back at them by taping Mauser's eyes closed while doing a taste test. Proctor succeeds in removing the tape, but the tape pulls off Mauser's eyebrows.
Both Lassard and Mahoney give a pep talk to each of the cadets before training resumes. At the policepersons' ball, Mahoney meets up with his hooker friend from the first film (Georgina Spelvin), and has her do a favor on Proctor after the latter insults Mahoney and Adams. The hooker tricks Proctor into removing all his clothes and then locking him out of the hotel room (much to the dismay of onlookers). He goes out and steals a car and drives to the academy. The car runs out of gas, however, and Proctor enters a building, which to his horror turns out to be the Blue Oyster Bar. Meanwhile, Mauser insults Lassard in front of the recruits by telling him that he is winning (after he pestered Hurst so much that Hurst made him believe he was winning), so Mahoney gets him back by giving a speech at the ball and then putting the microphone in a pitcher of water. When Mauser grabs it, the microphone shocks him.
On the final day of the cadet training/evaluation competition, one recruit from each academy attends the governor's ball (Proctor misunderstands and sends in two, one of whom is portrayed by David James Elliott). Copeland and Blankes play with the computer system and send cars to the wrong locations, but are quickly caught by Hooks, who punches them out cold. At the governor's party, a gang of thieves dressed as busboys start robbing the guests and take the governor hostage. The most effective academy is proven when Mauser's cadets promptly faint upon being threatened by the thieves. Lassard's cadet Hedges (David Huband) manages to sound the alarm, prompting Mahoney and the gang to rescue the governor. Mauser and Proctor prove to be too overconfident and ineffective to react to the emergency, but Lassard's squad arrives just in time to fight off the thieves and rescue the governor.
As a result of the governor's final judgment, Lassard's academy stays open, and the epilogue shows Lassard delivering a speech on how the academy is grateful for the "many, many" recruits. The graduating class salutes the camera as the film ends.

Tags: comedy, prank

Review:
Yes, combine the first two movies take away most of the cussing and raunchy jokes and you have the start of the very stale Police Academy sequels.
While still suffering from the humor limitations of being rated PG, "Police Academy 3" has sight gags enough to make it worth watching a few times (at least more often than "Part II").The gang's all here and trying to train a new line of cadets in their own image (poor cadets) while Lassard (Gaynes) tends to his goldfish and tools about in his modified golf cart.Even Bobcat Goldthwait returns as Zed, this time training to be a force of good.
Even Georgina Spelvin is back from the original and, bless her, she makes good, too (though not as hilarious as in the original).This is about as good as the sequels get, so look no further for laughs than "Police Academy 3: Back in Training".
Police Academy 3 (1986) ** 1/2 (out of 4) The gang is back and this time they must train some new recruits and if they fail the academy might be shut down for good.
The best moments of the movie happen as we get a semi-remake of the original film as we see the new recruits going through their training.
The second is a discipline factory run by the nemesis of the graduates from the second Police Academy movie, Sergeant Mauser, played with relish by Art Metrano now a commandant of that Academy.So a contest is to be held to see which one stays open and our regulars, Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, David Graf, and Leslie Esterbrook go back to help the captain they made life hell for as cadets.When you think about it, are the Police Academy movies any different than the classic Keystone Kops?
It's not quite as funny as the first two POLICE ACADEMY movies, but is pretty close.
It's kind of like the first POLICE ACADEMY except with a different set of people being trained to be cops.
While stagnation is never a good thing, a franchise like Police Academy should be encouraged at every turn to do what works best.The title also sums up the entire plot, although a little effort also goes into the setup.
"Police Academy 3: Back in Training", the third movie in the comedy series, is a funny second sequel to "Police Academy".
Even though I have been warned that these sequels are not any good, I'm still curious, I just finished Police Academy 3: Back in Training last night and even though it's not as funny as the first Police Academy film, it still has a few decent laughs.
I liked having the gang back together, even good old obnoxious Zed, and they've added a few new characters to the story that are so much fun to watch.Due to money shortage, the governor has to cut one of the two police academies in the city.
So the class of 1984 is back to help their academy out and help train new recruits, including our villain from the second Police Academy, Zed, has decided to clean up his act while picking on a poor little nerd, Sweetchuck, but end up being quite the funny pair together.
I know he is getting little obnoxious, but Michael Winslow with the voices, I loved when he was training a student and making noises like she was a bad driver, then he stopped and said "ok, if I hear any of those noises, you fail".
It is difficult to pinpoint any highlights of this movie because there are so many, but if you like Police Academy, you will adore "Back in Training".
And I don't like to call this a good comedy - it's still okay.It's the same type tough - falling into boxes, the chief's goldfish almost dies, Callahan kicks a bad-guys ass while flirting with her boobies, Mahoney makes jokes about Lassard and Jones makes sounds.
Regardless, the vast majority of the comedy has not dated well, but they are still an amusing romp through the hilarious clothing and comedy styles of the 80s!This time around, Commandant Lassard finds himself in a bit of a moment of crisis as the governor decides that it is no longer financially reasonable to maintain two police academies (the other one headed by the beloved Lieutenant Mauser from part 2), and so one of them will have to be closed.
In order to save Lassard's academy, and their own beloved alma mater, from being closed, all of our favorite Police Academy cast members have been brought back from Their First Assignment to become instructors at the academy and ensure that the place looks good.So there you have the setup and the basic plot, and other than that it's essentially exactly the same movie as the first two.
The characters are the same, the music's the same, the good guys and bad guys are the same, just the skits are different and this time we have the addition of a few negligible characters, the token geek (Sweetchuck), the token Japanese guy (who really serves no other purpose than to grin like an imbecile and become mesmerized by Callahan's prodigious bosoms), and also the ridiculous additions to the force of Fackler's nutty wife and Tackleberry's nutty brother-in-law.
Of course, the whole series is a bunch of goofy jokes, but I think that the second sequel is the first time when the characters that we know are used to throw in some moronic sight gags in order to get a cheap laugh, like when Tackleberry pulls out his gun and shoots a payphone because the operator refuses to relinquish her quarter, or Proctor getting locked out in the hallway ass-naked by a prostitute.
On the other hand, my beer count was getting up there by this point, so I found both scenes to be pretty funny.It is important to realize that director Jerry Paris developed most of his directing experience on television comedy series, which may have something to do with the, ah, conspicuous lack of subtlety in a lot of the sight gags in Police Academy 2 and 3.
Ad now it seems that Steve Guttenberg is attempting to put a Police Academy 8 in motion, in which case I can only hope that he doesn't try to reinvent the series, although I have a feeling that it would take nothing less than a total reinvention to make yet another sequel worthwhile.
This, the third film in the series, marks the point at which the sequels began their rapid descent into insipid kid's fare; references to the original simply come across as lazy re-hashes (which, let's face it, they are), and the new characters lack any real bite.
I didn't like the megaknockers-meets-Chinaman affair between lieutenant Callahan and cadet Nogata, and the denouement (academy staff and cadets prove their worth by riding around on speedboats) is total hogwash.This third part got a lot of exposure, and many people assume that, because it's somewhat bit shoddy, the previous episodes must have been just as lacklustre or even worse, which really isn't the case.It still works as brainless fun, especially if you fast-forward through that final marina chase segment..
But from all of the Police Academy movies, this one had more laughs than the original and the rest of the sequels.
The whole premise of Police Academy 3 is that Lazard's squad is being challange by former Academy member Mouser for best cadet school, its up to Lazard and his gang of misfits from Mahoney, Hooks, Jones, Hightower and Tackleberry along with Zed and Sweetchuck and that Japanese guy from Revenge of the Nerds to win the game and proved that they are better than Mouser's school.
And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it whatsoever.Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) is back with his band of dim-witted officers of the law in this second (*gulp*) sequel in the "Police Academy" series.
This time the half-baked, half-mixed plot involves Commandant Lassard's (George Gaynes) Police Academy being threatended to shut down when the city announces one of its academies must close due to funding.
I watched it on a truly lazy Sunday afternoon -- which may be why, in my original, older IMDb review, I said it was the type of comedy for people too lazy to mow their lawns on Sundays (something I usually do but had put aside on this particular day for...this...)Surprisingly, the film was directed by Jerry Paris, the man who helmed Part II in the neverending series.
Nobody ever said anything about missing him.The tagline for "Police Academy 3: Back in Training" is "Run for Cover!" Out of the thousands of films I have seen, this tagline is one of the most fitting of all time."Run for Cover!"I couldn't agree more.1/5 stars.John Ulmer.
Michael Winslow is still hilarious when he is making sound effects, Lance Kinsey is great as the dim-witted Lt. Proctor and it is crazy to see Bobcat Goldthwait playing Zed and all his antics going through training to become a cop.Here one of the academies must close so it is between Comdt.
The third installment of the Police Academy series falls a little short compared to the first two movies, but it is still quite entertaining!
The best of the 'Police Academy' films will always be the original by quite some way.
George Gaynes is always watchable and is here too even with his material not being as meaty or as funny.Robert Folk's score is robust and infectious and there is a bit with a scooter and a car that is quite amusing and the best timed of all the gags.Unfortunately, too much of the cast have little to do or have lost what made their characters work before.
Steve Guttenberg has lost his spark and enthusiasm, while Marion Ramsey does little with a character that has nothing to her and, while a high-point in the second film, Bob Goldthwait is even more unsubtle and tries far too hard here that it's irritating.Sadly there are nowhere near enough laughs, maybe a couple of minor parts work but there are no real highlight scenes really (which the first two had) and the rest of the gags are poorly timed, feeling laboured and with some abrupt shifts from one to another, parts that are more grossly crude than anything remotely amusing and too much of it has a style of humour that feels far too toned down, which makes the film feel leaden and bland.Production values look rushed, like there were severe time and budget constraints, while what little there is of the story (most of it close to non-existent rather than thin) is an incredibly lazy-feeling replay.
No doubt with both being fairly popular among its fans, the third film in the series would revolve around the same kind of antics.In Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986), the plot deals with returning characters from the last two films becoming the trainers to the next incoming class of cadets.
The alumni to return are Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Hightower (Bubba Smith), Tackleberry (David Graf), Jones (Michael Winslow), Hooks (Marion Ramsey), Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook) and Fackler (Bruce Mahler).
Some really great and unique actors from the second movie, as the rebellious punk Zed and the shy and rather conservative Sweetchuck, come back and play the new cadets of the police academy to save the honour and future of it because one out of two police academies must close its doors do to too elevated costs.
Of course, Mahoney, Tackleberry, Hightower and all the other are also starring in this very funny and entertaining flick, this time as instructors instead of cadets as in the first movie.
Ive been a fan of the series for some time [except for Police academy 7 ARRRG] bobcat and sweetchuck are definetly crowd pleasers!
POLICE ACADEMY 3: BACK IN TRAINING was where the series all started to go downhill for me.
Apparently the state can only afford one police academy so Lassard's cadets must compete with another academy, run by Mauser (Art Metrano) from the last film.
This time the cadets (Guttenberg,Smith,Winslow,Ramsey, Maher and Graf etc) go back to school to mold new recruits in their own image and help Lassard (Gaynes) keep his academy which Mauser (Metrano) is aiming to steal in this good natured but ultimately mediocre sequel.
all in all police academy 3 is a fun movie!
Police academy 2 is a better movie.
As a result, Mauser recruits Sgt. Blanks (Brant von Hoffmanand) and Sgt. Copeland (Scott Thomson) and instructs them sabotage Lassard's cadets, while Sergeants Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Hightower (Bubba Smith), Jones (Michael Winslow), Tackleberry (David Graf) and Hooks (Marion Ramsey) try to train the new cadets to hopefully save their academy.The acting continues to be pretty good with this film and I thought the entire cast did a good job in their roles, each one giving a unique and humorous personality, like Jones' funny sound effects, Hooks' shy voice, Tackleberry's forceful weapon tactics and Hightower's giant, intimidating stance.
The addition of Cadets Zed (Bobcat Goldthwait), Sweetchuck (Tim Kazurinsky) and Cadet Nogata (Brian Tochi) added more humor and charm to the story.This movie goes at a more quicker pace than the previous two films and the plot seems to be more intact and intriguing, from the sergeants training the cadets to all the running gags at Mauser's and Proctor's expense.
Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Hightower (Bubba Smith), Tackleberry (David Graf), Jones (Michael Winslow), Hooks (Marion Ramsey), and Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook) return to the academy to help Lassard (George Gaynes) train the new recruits and fend off Mauser (Art Metrano) who runs the other academy.The good thing this time around is that they've returned to the academy.
Commandant Lassard's Police Academy is in jeopardy to be closed.That must be prevented.There are some new recruits, including the old gang member Zed.Police Academy 3: Back in Training is from 1986.It's the second and the last of these movies directed by Jerry Paris, who died that year.There is pretty much the old cast there with Steve Guttenberg playing Mahoney.And Bubba Smith playing Hightower (also seen in drag).David Graf is Tackleberry.Michael Winslow is Jones.Marion Ramsey plays Hooks.Leslie Easterbrook plays Debbie Callahan.George Gaynes is there with his gold wish playing Eric Lassard.Art Metrano reprises his role as Mauser.As does Lance Kinsey as Proctor.As does Tim Kazurinsky playing the geeky Sweetchuck.And Bobcat Goldthwait, who was seen in the previous part as the hyperactive Zed, reprises his role.Shawn Weatherly plays Cadet Karen Adams.Bruce Mahler is Douglas Fackler and Debralee Scott his wife, who wants to be a cop too.Ed Nelson plays Governor Neilson.Brian Tochi is Elvis Nogata.Andrew Paris is Bud Kirkland and Arthur Batanides his father, and their beating up each other again.George S.
The 'Police Academy' series is going strong with its eighth installment coming out in 2006.Mao points: 5/10.
Like all other Police Academy movies, this one is just silly and not very intellectual.
The state decides that it cannot finance two academy's so a competition is declared between Eric Lassard's academy and Commandant Mauser's academy.All the favourites such as Mahoney, Jones, Hooks, Hightower and Tackleberry are back to help train the new recruits which include Zed (the punk from the second film)and Sweetchuck (the little wimp from the second film).
My favourite scenes were the sneaky Sergeant Proctor ending up nude on the streets, Mauser losing his eyebrows and the ending where the new recruits chase the bad guys on speedboats.All in all, Police Academy 3 is a damn good film..
Then they added some new characters and brought over some of the second film characters including the incredibly annoying Bobcat Goldthwait as Zed. This guy is not funny in any capacity and he made an alright villain but the idea of bringing him on as a regular cast member was not a good decision and the attempt at making him an odd couple partner to Sweetchuck was a disaster and didn't work.
However the character Sweetchuck was the one redeemable new character as he had a slapstick, funny physical character who was annoyingly cute at times.I won't say there is NOTHING redeemable about Police Academy 3.
Proctor (from Police Academy 2) were still fun to watch screw up and see the cadets get the better of them.
The first police academy is headed by "Commandant Lassard" (George Gaynes) while the other is run by the villain in the previous movie, "Commandant Mauser" (Art Metrano).
Third times a charm as we head back to the Police Academy for more training with yet more new recruits.
The Police Academy films are simply the worst thing I've seen in my life.Of course, this movie sin't the exception, being another unnecessary addition to a lame franchise that was bad from the beginning.
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Marion Ramsay, Leslie Easterbrook, Bruce Mahler, Brian Tochi, Tim Kazurinsky, Bobcat Goldthwait, Art Metrano, Lance Kinsey and George Gaynes star in this 1986 comedy sequel.
In this entry, Commandant Lassard (Gaynes) learns that his police academy is failing and seeks help from new instructors, Mahoney (Guttenberg), Hightower (Smith), Jones (Winslow), Tackleberry (Graf), Hooks (Ramsay), Callahan (Easterbrook), and Fackler (Mahler).
Kinsey returns as Mauser's assistant, Proctor, Kazurinsky as Sweetchuck, Goldthwait as ex-gang leader, Zed and Tochi plays Nogata, a new recruit who falls for Callahan.
Returning to the same theme as number one, "Police Academy III" finds us "Back in Training" with a new bunch of recruits who look sure to foul up big time.Most of the familiar gang return, including Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf and Michael Winslow, though this doesn't help a wit.
Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) brings back past graduates Sgt. Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Sgt. Moses Hightower (Bubba Smith), Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry (David Graf), Sgt. Larvelle Jones (Michael Winslow), Sgt. Laverne Hooks (Marion Ramsey) and Lt. Debbie Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook) both to help win against their rival academy run by Cmndt.