Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)

Overrated

Fantastic!

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy (1984) and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweigh any shortcomings, but are they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists? Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is the first of the many installments of the Police Academy Series and one that continues bringing laughs and smiles to our faces. Sure the original was better but there's lots of goofs and laughs this time around that makes it just as good as the first plus a new pack of great and i mean great characters who are just as "stupid" as our main characters and we just loved them right? (10/10)

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a pretty bad movie with very little story,its mainly just the comedy cops goofing around for the entire with one uninspired joke after another.There were some bits that had me laughing,most of them by Steve Guttenberg's character,but this is a very brutal sequel that was clearly only made to make more money,the first Police Academy wasn't that good to begin with,so it was clearly only money why they wanted to make more of them.Police Academy 2 is basically just one joke after another and makes very little effort with an actual story,even if you enjoyed the first Police Academy,you probably should avoid this one.Now graduated and official members of the police force,the cops are given their first assignment,the toughest precinct in town.

So I saw the first Police Academy a few nights ago and naturally I wanted to see the sequel. How they could mess things up this badly says a lot about the other sequels.Basically the plot is that six of the characters we know and love from the first Police Academy movie are now on their first assignment - to stop a gang of hooligans that like to scream every last line of dialogue. While this is happening someone tries to replace Lieutenant Harris as the guy fans of the original love to hate, this time we just hate him as he tries to go for the job of inspector.Now my one big problem with this is that these people go into situations that last the entire movie that are just so... BORING. Do we really care about Tackleberry and his first love(who's just like him)? Are we really supposed to give a crap about any of these new characters who are just there to try and either imitate the first one or just being really boring.Now there are compliments - this movie does amuse me in places - but most of the time it's just smirks here and there. All of these parts I could count with my hands. Also unlike other bad sequels this one is just over 80 minutes long. I won't watch 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 (are there more?) because from what I've heard they get worse and worse, not only that but it seems to me like they just wanted to make a sequel in hopes of just making more money and nothing else. I will only watch the first one again and that's it.

It's a natural progression, but the film was certainly rushed into production. Because of this they dropped the ball in certain aspects. Only 6 of the original cadets are able to appear, which forces more focus onto a love affair for Tackleberry. This actually works out, as Cattrall's boring character is nowhere to be seen. This allows Mahoney to go free and not be tied down. Unfortunately Harris is out, due to Bailey being busy with other commitments. Luckily the new antagonist isn't terrible, but he just misses that spark. Seeing the cadets out on the beat is quite smile inducing, if repetitive. Winslow uses his vocal techniques, people are taken aback by Smith's size, Ramsey is belittled because of her voice etc. It's familiar territory, and the new characters are hardly stand-out. Let's face it, if a film franchise like this had tried to develop its characters, we'd be even more disappointed.