View Full Version : Police Academy to be rebooted
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03-04-2010, 08:24 PM
Though it has become somewhat of a clichéd punchline, the original producer of Police Academy is looking to relaunch the storied franchise, according to THR.
Paul Maslansky doesn’t have a writer or a director yet but one can only imagine there’s a strong chance that MANY of the original cast - which included Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow and others - will be available for cameos. Unfortunately Tackleberry, played by David Graf, is no longer with us.
“It’s going to be very worthwhile to the people who remember it and to those who saw it on TV,” Maslansky told THR. “It’s going to be a new class. We hope to discover new talent and season it with great comedians. It’ll be anything but another movie with a numeral next to it. And we’ll most probably retain the wonderful musical theme.”
The first movie - released in 1984 - remains pretty funny and was a huge success. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t have had those six terrible sequels that ended in 1994 with Mission to Moscow. To restart the franchise and bring it back to its hard R, sexually charged roots, could actually work.
And, worse comes to worse, it’ll teach another generation of Asian kids how to speak English. Wayne’s World, anyone?
neverending
03-04-2010, 08:42 PM
Those movies were crap. Why bother?
Those movies were crap. Why bother?
agreed 100%
milktoaste
03-05-2010, 10:38 AM
Those movies were crap. Why bother?
Crap was the exact word i was going to use.
horrorsniped
03-05-2010, 05:30 PM
I didn't think they were that bad. I mean the first 3 movies were funny. But as you kept watching them it sorta dried out. I also watched them when I was young and anything nostolgic for me always gets a good review!
neverending
03-05-2010, 05:51 PM
They're not even so bad they're good- they're just god-awful crap.
They're not even so bad they're good- they're just god-awful crap.
With age comes wisdom....and NE is brilliant :D
Elvis_Christ
03-05-2010, 09:03 PM
Fuck off.... Police Academy is great. The first two flicks are classic trashy 80s comedy.
Anyone see Recruits the Canadian knock off? That was killer and had Thor in it :D
neverending
03-05-2010, 09:08 PM
I refuse to fuck off. I never met anyone before who thought those films had an ounce of interest in them.
Caenxavier
03-05-2010, 09:12 PM
Fuck off.... Police Academy is great. The first two flicks are classic trashy 80s comedy.
High five.
Angra
03-05-2010, 09:59 PM
We don't need the old ones and we certainly don't need a new.
Not... FUNNY!!
Caenxavier
03-05-2010, 10:06 PM
Oh c'mon, slapstick, stereotypes, tits, pure 80's.
Gotta love it.
neverending
03-05-2010, 10:08 PM
No I don't.
Caenxavier
03-05-2010, 10:12 PM
No I don't.
Like?
Acknowledge it's existence?
Elvis_Christ
03-05-2010, 11:07 PM
Oh c'mon, slapstick, stereotypes, tits, pure 80's.
Gotta love it.
Totally. Nice to see at least one person who isn't a bitter tightass.
neverending
03-05-2010, 11:59 PM
Interesting definition of bitter tightass- someone who doesn't like moronic unfunny bullshit lame so-called comedies appreciated by few people over the age of 11.
Elvis_Christ
03-06-2010, 12:13 AM
Wow so much hatred for a harmless film. I think my definition is right on the money.
neverending
03-06-2010, 12:23 AM
Well, that was a bit of hyperbole, but still- those movies are ust so childish and stupid. I'm just flabbergasted that any adults can find them enjoyable.
But if you must call people names, I'll gladly accespt that label along with newb, milktoaste and Angra.
cheebacheeba
03-06-2010, 02:24 AM
I refuse to fuck off. I never met anyone before who thought those films had an ounce of interest in them.
Maybe it's because you're so openly opinionated against them that the ones that did, never bothered to say anything for fear of a lesson in the finer points of what makes it a shit movie?
I really don't think that many people would claim it to be award winning stuff or the thinking mans comedy...
I actually quite liked the first one, when the idea was still relatively fresh.
I'd say I agree that the sequels weren't really on par...I think after about the third one they became pretty terrible, relying more heavily on their "gimmicky" characters they took way over the top, too much stereotyping and the like.
The Moscow one and the "series" was absolutely the lowest points.
The first one though was up there with the majority of the comedy films I've seen from around the same time/genre, which might not be saying much but I found it as enjoyable as many of those kind of late night tv hijinks type movies...it fit in well with movies of this type, perhaps having grown up in the 80's lowered my expectations, but I can't see HATING this film...perhaps later entries in the series, but the first one was all good.
Remake/reinvention?
Probably won't work.