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Police Academy 7 - Mission to Moscow [VHS]

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2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

After the disappointment of Police Academy 5 and the improvement of Police Academy 6, you would think this final sequel would have been a nice finish to the series. Wrong! Police Academy: Mission to Moscow is the worst of the films. It even makes Police Academy 5 look somewhat good. Most of the actors from the previous Police Academy movies have left the series by now and with good reason. The plot is no good and not even Captain Harris (G.W. Bailey) could have saved the loss of humor in this movie. If you are a person who has never seen any of the Police Academy sequels or have not gotten past #4, do yourself a favor by skipping #5, watch #6, and avoid this final sequel at all cost! To sum up this review, only watch Police Academy 1,2,3,4, and 6.

The 6th one was better than this. Read the other review it says the same thing I want to say. Rent 1,2,3,4,5, not 6 and certainly not 7.

Tagline: Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!

If you haven't seen this movie, you really should do yourself and your loved ones a favor and check it out. I know a lot of people think the Police Academy series wasn't too great after the first one, but they are dead, dead wrong.

First of all, the loss of Steve Guttenberg as Mahoney is no great one, as his character was silly and unbelievable. This film puts our favorite recruits in Moscow (which is near Russia), and has a delightful fish-out-of-water premise. Now, for those that haven't seen the prequels, you should know that the Police Academy men and women are a ragtag group of ne'erdowells who use plain moxy and hijinks to solve crimes. In many ways it's similar to the Law and Order TV show, but much much funnier.

You will be amazed at all the silly sound effects that the sound effect policeman makes, and you will be charmed by the general buffoonery that the rest of the gang makes as they try policing Moscow. It may be out of their jurisdiction...but this movie proves that there is no jurisdiction for funny.

On a more serious note, this movie came out at the height of what is known as "the Red Scare" in America, and instead of dealing with the tensions between two world superpowers with heavyhanded, treacly drama like Warren Beatty's ultra-conservative "Reds," Police Academy's Mission to Moscow makes excellent socio-political commentary under the guise of a lighthearded romp, and it pays off in spadeskis! (If you want to turn American words into Russian words, the best way is to add "ski" to the end of them. Ditto for Polish things).

This movie is a treat for almost all of your senses!!!

THE ONLY WAY THIS MOVIE WILL BE FUNNY IF IT WAS PUT ON MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.THAT S ONLY WAY IT WILL MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH.

Police Academy started to lose steam after Their First Assignment. The third was decent but still passable but the next three were weak. Mission To Moscow hands down is the worst of the series.

The plot is stupid beyond belief. It details the Police Academy going to Moscow to stop some Russian mobster(played by Ron Perlman) from taking over the world with a video game that consists of some bear running around punching people.

Yeah, that is the movie in a nutshell. Half if the original cast is gone and the ones who are still here look bored to death. The jokes and gags fall flat and for a Police Academy this one is pretty boring. This installment makes City Under Siege look like a comedic masterpiece. Even if you like the Police Academy series skip this turd. Showgirls is funnier than this nightmare. YES, its THAT bad!

LOOK, ALL THEY DID WAS GO TO MOSCOW AND TRY TO STOP AN EVIL MAN FROM DESTROYING THE WORLD. FIRST OF ALL, DON'T CARE. SECOND OF ALL, ALMOST ALL THE BEST CAST MEMBERS ARE GONE. AND THIRD OF ALL, IT'S JUST THE WORST POLICE ACADEMY OF THEM ALL.

I enjoyed every Police Academy movie except this one. This one was TERRIBLE. It was not funny AT ALL. Like other people, I had no idea this movie was even made until I saw it on the shelf in a video store. I rented it and I was very disapointed. The only reason anyone would want to see this or get it would be to complete there Police Academy collection. I would strongly advise you not to rent it or buy it for laughs.

i must Be Truth full I love the police academy films ALL But
this one.it never fails to put me to sleep The jokes are not
funny the acting is very Bad and hightower HooKS AND proctor
are missing thats a nother reason i Did not care for the film
they never even explain what happen to them.I guess David graf
lesile easterbrook micheal winslow and Gw bailey Must have
needed the cash im being kind giving this movie 2 stars cause
i am a fan of the series But this movie gets a big Z For being
boring it works better then any sleeping pill .

The Police Academy series came crashing to a halt with the ill-fated and much belated Police Academy: Mission to Moscow. It's a film which leaves you asking Why? What? How? And why again? (a question that just can't be asked enough). Shot in Russia during the 1991 coup (rather than the 1993 constitutional crisis) but not released until three years later, and then in conditions of near-total secrecy, it took a pitiful $126,247 in the US, a staggering 1/670th of the first film's gross and about $126,246.97 more than it's worth. It's a film so astonishingly bad it almost staggers the imagination. The human vocabulary has still not evolved to a level that can truly articulate just how utterly wrong this film is.

Lazy, badly acted, hopelessly directed, plastered with inept musical Mickey Mousing and cartoon sound-effects to underline non-existent jokes, barely even scripted and photographed with all the artistry of a basic cable infomercial, this seems to have been made in the vain hope that - by applying infinite number of monkeys with infinite number of typewriters logic - if you point the camera in the general direction of the cast and they make some noise vaguely resembling human speech, you might just get something funny if you keep the cameras rolling long enough. Nothing is developed or possesses even the vaguest level of internal logic: why, after battering a hole in a hotel door, do two characters just walk away, bored? Is it because nobody bothered to finish writing the scene? Why does G.W. Bailey disguise himself as a ballerina to arrest Ron Perlman? Is it so inexplicable because the scene with the exposition just never got filmed because they ran out of money? Considering the quality of the rest of the film, it can't be because it was too bad to include - you get the impression that if they shot anything, it's in the picture no matter how bad just to pad out the running time. Every expense has been spared. Aside from not even affording a number 7 for the title, let alone retakes, there's no big stunt finale, no Russian Blue Oyster Bar (admittedly that joke retired in Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol), and, aside from George Gaynes' Commandant Lassard and G.W. Bailey, only three of the original cast return, and they go through the film with a palpable air of despair that all their hopes and dreams of a glittering career have come to this. RichardCat's IMDB review sums up the sheer despondency of the cast perfectly - the performances do indeed have the sense of `souls bleeding.' Definitely one mission you should decline.

This film is terrible beyond description. Avoid at all costs.