Given 30 days to halt the crime wave in his precinct, Captain Pete Lassard (Howard Hesseman) recruits six rookie cops from his brother’s police academy. But the rookies’ ineptitude and an ambitious lieutenant soon put Lassard’s job in jeopardy.
The international success of the first movie in the Police Academy series meant that new director Jerry Paris wasn’t going to mess with a winning formula.
This time the misfits get the opportunity to cause chaos on the streets, but, despite featuring many members of the original cast, this is merely a lazy replay of the original outing, with grossness substituting for any genuine humour.
The film is insufferably cute. Even the leader of the punk gang, supposedly the supreme embodiment of crazed, evil lawlessness, is a teddy bear.
An embarrassed-looking Howard Hesseman, star of TV’s Head of the Class, is the only major new addition.
Carey Mahoney
Steve Guttenberg Hightower
Bubba Smith Tackleberry
David Graf Larvell Jones
Michael Winslow Doug Fackler
Bruce Mahler Laverne Hooks
Marion Ramsey Kirkland
Colleen Camp Captain Pete Lassard
Howard Hesseman Lieutenant Mauser
Art Metrano Commandant Lassard
George Gaynes Zed
Bobcat Goldthwait Chloe
Julie Brown Vinnie Schtulman
Peter Van Norden Merchant
Tim Kazurinsky Dooley
Ed Herlihy Sistrunk
Sandy Ward Proctor
Lance Kinsey Mojo
Christopher Jackson Flacko
Churh Ortiz Chief Hurst
George R Robertson
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