Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

    Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
    1987

    Synopsis

    A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.

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    Cast

    • Steve GuttenbergMahoney
    • Bubba SmithHightower
    • Michael WinslowJones
    • David GrafTackleberry
    • Tim KazurinskySweetchuck
    • Sharon StoneClaire Mattson
    • Leslie EasterbrookCallahan
    • Marion RamseyHooks
    • Lance KinseyProctor
    • G.W. BaileyCaptain Harris

    Recommendations

    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      What's so amazing about the Police Academy movies is that they keep being made even though they stopped being funny after the hilarious original. We're now up to No. 4, and the most you can say for it is that it is the teeniest bit better, not quite so crass as the last two...Director Jim Drake is at least brisk and amiable; if nothing else, Police Academy 4 is good-natured and doesn't drag.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      The Police Academy series seems to shoot for an ever younger crowd. The optimum viewer for Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol would be a 10-year-old boy. Even better, it would be a whole pack of them. That's not to say the film isn't funny; it means only that the sense of humor being addressed is very specific. Stay away if drawing room farce is what you're after.
    • 40

      Time Out

      Plenty of pigeon-shit, superglue and squirting ketchup sight gags, plus the usual smutty verbal innuendo. Highlights again include Goldthwait's strangulated vocal ejaculations, a couple of Ninja movie naff-dubbing jokes, and a signposted life-saving gag featuring the chesty Easterbrook in a wet T-shirt.
    • 25

      TV Guide Magazine

      Director Jim Drake keeps things moving so quickly, one barely has time to notice just how stale the jokes here are.
    • 25

      Chicago Tribune

      There hasn`t been a movie quite like Police Academy 4 since, well . . . "Police Academy 3." Make that exactly like, because here are the same characters, the same situations and the same jokes (most of them focused on damage suffered in the genital region) that have served the series since its inauspicious debut in 1984.
    • 25

      Miami Herald

      Astoundingly, considering the fall of this film series from low aim to no aim at all, the original cast remains aboard. [8 Apr 1987, p.D8]
    • 20

      Empire

      Citizens On Patrol might well have been subtitled When The Rot Set In.
    • 10

      Washington Post

      "4" isn't even a film; it's more like a long trailer, a collection of scenes without sense. It has everything you expect and nothing more: flat and uninspired aural and visual jokes about bodily functions (people's and pigeons'), leather bars, porta-johns, superglue, fat and/or stupid people -- all interspersed with "training," jailbreaks and an airborne chase finale.

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