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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Film
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Police Academy
Directed by Hugh Wilson
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take… From TMDB
231 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works
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Police Academy is a 1984 comedy crime film, directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey.
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60 of 231 · most liked firstIsn't this basically the premise of the first Police Academy movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →every year from 1984-1989 there was a new Police Academy movie and i wonder when, during that run, the fever broke for the Police Academy franchise's cast and crew that they couldn't keep making hit Police Academy movies every year forever. I'd guess around Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
neutral · AI labelView post →Like JD Vance, I'm a bit of an expert on foreign policy and world politics. I've seen a lot of videos including every single Police Academy movie including the highly underrated Citizens on Patrol
neutral · AI labelView post →Bless these young people posting "movie you've watched more that 6 times" memes. Before streaming, when we only had a VHS collection to rely on, we watched *EVERY* movie a dozen times. THERE WERE NO OTHER MOVIES AVAILABLE. Christ, I've seen Police Academy 3 more than six times.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is like that movie, Police Academy, a look into the everyday humiliations and degradations synonymous with a life in law enforcement.
neutral · AI labelView post →My man looks like the bad guy from a Police Academy movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had the opposite parental movie controls, which led to me seeing raunchy movies like Animal House, Police Academy, and Rising Sun at a very young age, while my dad would tell me about awesome movies like T2 and Pulp Fiction while also saying "you can't see this because of the violence."
neutral · AI labelView post →I think back - more often than I ought to - to the by-election in Stoke on Trent ca 2017 where Paul Nuttall of the UKIPs got rumbled... and locked himself in a flat ... and in desperation fell back on his 'happy place', which was watching every single Police Academy movie back to back.
neutral · AI labelView post →The English-speaking world has developed a huge overeducated cohort at the same time our mass media has abandoned even aspirational middlebrow entertainment like the erotic thriller. We're stuck talking about the equivalent of a Police Academy sequel, or a Steeve Reeves Hercules movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →BEST MOVIE EVER: POLICE ACADEMY 5
positive · AI labelView post →from Police Academy 4 onward every film has a 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This, to me, is the highest art - to embrace the negative, to love so fiercely that all is oblivion.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want your fascist propaganda illustrated by the guy who drew the movie poster for Police Academy 6, DHS has got you covered.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not only did Steve Guttenberg and several Police Academy vets make a giant fire spiders film called "Lavalantula", but they made sequel called "2Lava 2Lantula" I tell you this because I'm about to watch what I am sure is a masterpiece of spider cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →The late 80s and early 90s saw a raft of children's cartoons based on 15 and 18-rated films: The Toxic Avenger, Police Academy, Rambo, and ROBOCOP (1988). Not gonna lie, if I was a kid who was too young to see the film, I'd have been all over this! "You are gonna be a bad muddy funster!"
neutral · AI labelView post →The Police Academy movie will always come to mind when I see something like this. 🔥🤤
neutral · AI labelView post →guy whose Culture War fight is to censor Police Academy for being a DEI movie
neutral · AI labelView post →There are seven colors in the rainbow; one for each Police Academy movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →1. Ishtar 2. Sharknado 3. Spice World: The Movie 4. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1984 movie Police Academy?
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time there's a thing doing the rounds like "name a film you've seen more than 6 times with a gif!" and people always post some clever obscure art house movie when we all know the actual answer is like Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol because that's all you had recorded off the telly on VHS
neutral · AI labelView post →This was really funny when they would take a live action movie that was rated R and decide, yeah this should be a children's cartoon. Shoutout to Rambo, Police Academy, and RoboCop, among others.
neutral · AI labelView post →My mum passed in 86,so the last movie I watched in the theatre with her was Police Academy. Yeah that should not be a core memory, but she did laugh so hard.
neutral · AI labelView post →POLICE ACADEMY: MISSION TO MOSCOW (1915) #lostfilmsofhollywood linkly.link/2hi5J (Well done to @quantick.bsky.social for coming up with an idea for a movie based on a series where there are barely any documented posters in existence to reference!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Police Academy movie likeness…incompetence, low morale and confusion inside ICE www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the reasons the Byzantine Empire is so often overlooked in history is it's lack of cultural legacy into the modern age. In that way it is very similar to the 1980s movie series, Police Academy
neutral · AI labelView post →If Hollywood can survive 7 Police Academy movies and 10 Fast and the Furious movies, it can survive a second Super Mario Bros movie. (I'm planning to go see "the end of cinema" this weekend, BTW.)
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the reasons the Byzantine Empire is so often overlooked in history is it's lack of cultural legacy into the modern age. In that way it is very similar to the 1980s movie series, Police Academy.
neutral · AI labelView post →I hope it'll be fun and exciting like that movie- Spaceballs! Instead of painful and disturbing like that movie Police Academy.
neutral · AI labelView post →8 films I saw that you don’t remember unless you were part of the greatest microgeneration: Ice Pirates Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone Krull D.A.R.Y.L. From the Hip Midnight Madness The Police Academy movie with Tony Hawk (I know it was 4)
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t care what anyone says. The best Police Academy movie is Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
positive · AI labelView post →Didn't catch this before, but Channel 5's tradition of screening a 15-rated film in a completely inappropriate afternoon slot (Enemy of the State, Police Academy) strikes once again with The Firm. Might not be as cut to ribbons as some of the others, but I don't think Gary Busey is getting blown.
neutral · AI labelView post →So Nate asked me for a comedy movie to watch on movie night with his friends.... I suggested Police Academy... the laughter coming from his room is my reward!
neutral · AI labelView post →HER: Want to watch a movie with me? ME: Sure, which one? HER: Police Academy! ME: No thanks, I'm on a Gutten-free diet.
negative · AI labelView post →There was a prompt a while back to name a movie you had watched 6 times or more where the unspoken assumption is that it was because the movie was good. When I was a kid you watched movies 6 times not because they were good but because they were available. So Police Academy 4 and Spaceballs
neutral · AI labelView post →Quip of the day, from Charlie Sykes: “It is perhaps unfair of me to call Melania the worst film ever made because I have not seen every film ever made. But I have seen Porky’s 3 and Police Academy 6.”
neutral · AI labelView post →They were releasing a Police Academy movie *every year* for five straight years. What happened to us as a society?!
neutral · AI labelView post →to regain movie credibility, you must watch Cannonball Run 2 or Police Academy 5
neutral · AI labelView post →When someone says that John Williams or John Barry or Ennio Morricone or Jerry Goldsmith or whoever is the greatest film composer of all time, just ask "Oh, did he write the theme tune from Police Academy?", and they'll immediately realise their mistake.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Because you used ChatGPT to generate theoretical subtitles for a new Police Academy movie, all games are in EGA again now"
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 16 of #Junesploitation – ‘80s Comedy! – Police Academy (1984) I forgot how dumb the premise is. Very much a movie of its time. A few of these jokes have aged like milk. Its actually more fun, than remember. Steven Guttenberg is really charming.
neutral · AI labelView post →if I had to compare tonight's Phillies games to a Police Academy movie it would be Part 6
neutral · AI labelView post →I believe that symphonies should be subtitled like the latter movie sequels of Police Academy, Mission Impossible, or Nightmare on Elm Street. For example:
neutral · AI labelView post →BOTD: Leslie Easterbrook, one of the best and most memorable parts of the POLICE ACADEMY film series.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just learned about Mahoney's timely Mount St. Helens joke in an '82 first draft of the first Police Academy movie. Crazy because I not only watched a Police Academy movie earlier today, but I did it while wearing a Mt. St Helen's t-shirt.
neutral · AI labelView post →Police Academy IV: Citizens On Patrol (1987). The first film I remember actively hating, and I was surprised that nobody else seemed to really care or what to talk about how bad it was. That was the day I realised that I would walk a different path from other people. The path of the hater.
negative · AI labelView post →The 5th Police Academy film came out in 1988 and even premiered at #1 in its opening week. Wild time.
neutral · AI labelView post →But he was quite good in the first Police Academy movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie you've seen 6+ times meme but you're all horrified because it's a gif of 3/4s of Police Academy 2: Their First Assignmentsome taped off of HBO in the late 80s.
neutral · AI labelView post →For a measly $5000 I will agree to watch every Police Academy movie back to back
neutral · AI labelView post →Busy day at work, but it's time for a movie! Tonight's randomly selected movie is... Police Academy, 1984
neutral · AI labelView post →How many people knew there was a seventh Police Academy film released in the 90's, in which they have to go to Moscow to apprehend Christopher Lee.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm visualising a Bluesky Police Academy movie and smiling serenely
neutral · AI labelView post →The first Police Academy as released on this day, which made possible one of The Simpsons best film criticism jokes. youtu.be/1HuIILdA8Lg?...
neutral · AI labelView post →What's a movie you wish you could experience for the first time again? 🎥🖤 Police Academy. I still laugh my ass off watching this movie. It’d be so much fun to see it again for the first time, but as an adult😁 #HooksKicksAss
positive · AI labelView post →I was surprised how much Nerds movie and Police Academy held up otherwise. Real sea change on just a few things socially. (They were on AMC. Police Academy actually pretty woke outside ACAB stuff.)
positive · AI labelView post →Biden hit back- successfully recalling the names of every Police Academy movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie is basically Police Academy but with ninjas.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not just a last Downton film, literally the final movie ever. I'd've preferred the industry went out with another Police Academy sequel, but never mind.
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: Legendary artist Drew Struzan said he considered the poster art for this film as his personal favorite of all the ‘Police Academy’ posters he created. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →50 First Dates is getting a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release. And while I'm all for physical media, I confess it wasn't the film I thought was crying out for a 4K upgrade. Police Academy 5 next?
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