Review of Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988) by Rita Kempley for Washington Post — 11 Apr 1996
Those bumbling boys and girls in blue are back on the streets in Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach. And they're more moronic than ever -- '80s Keystone Kops dropping their pants, breaking wind and parading their big American "mangoes.
" Nothing is too degrading for these troupers. Gradually the more employable members of the original squad, such as Steve Guttenberg (not that he's so great), have gone on to better assignments. But the desperate have returned to reprise their roles in this fifth-rate rehash of the rather wonderful original.
"5" is a comic assault, batteries not included, an insufferable collage of coarse slapstick vignettes.
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This review of Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988) was written by Rita Kempley and published by Washington Post on 11 Apr 1996.
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach has generally received mixed reviews.
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