When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected. Police Academy 3: Back in Training recruits the fun team for another 3rd adventure and boy what an adventure plus the hilarious and insane dude from the 2nd one Zed is now an officer himself and he is just freaking funny as hell. The laughs are once again hysterical and the movie is just as good as the previous 2 entries in the Series and definitely not a 5.3 kind of comedy as IMDb listed it.

This is the second sequel to Police Academy, where the city's two police academies, one is under the eye of Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) and the other under Commandant Mauser (Art Metrano), enter a little "competition" to see who can do a better job at protecting the city in order to keep themselves from closing (due to limited funds, the city is considering closing down one of the academies). As a result, Mauser recruits Sgt. Blanks (Brant von Hoffmanand) and Sgt. Copeland (Scott Thomson) and instructs them sabotage Lassard's cadets, while Sergeants Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Hightower (Bubba Smith), Jones (Michael Winslow), Tackleberry (David Graf) and Hooks (Marion Ramsey) try to train the new cadets to hopefully save their academy.The acting continues to be pretty good with this film and I thought the entire cast did a good job in their roles, each one giving a unique and humorous personality, like Jones' funny sound effects, Hooks' shy voice, Tackleberry's forceful weapon tactics and Hightower's giant, intimidating stance. Mauser continues his villainous but funny character and Proctor continues to be the slapstick and bumbling assistant to Mauser. The addition of Cadets Zed (Bobcat Goldthwait), Sweetchuck (Tim Kazurinsky) and Cadet Nogata (Brian Tochi) added more humor and charm to the story.This movie goes at a more quicker pace than the previous two films and the plot seems to be more intact and intriguing, from the sergeants training the cadets to all the running gags at Mauser's and Proctor's expense. Jerry Paris did a good job in the direction and the script by Gene Quintano is much more captivating; you get a lot of police action and some thrilling moments. And, Robert Folk's toe-tapping Police Academy theme deserves an honorable mention.Overall, it's the best of the Police Academy movies - at least the best of the first four.Grade B

The third part of this unique police movie series presents us a weaker story line than the second movie but a few great surprises. Some really great and unique actors from the second movie, as the rebellious punk Zed and the shy and rather conservative Sweetchuck, come back and play the new cadets of the police academy to save the honour and future of it because one out of two police academies must close its doors do to too elevated costs. It's a brilliant idea that the charismatic villain Mauser from the second movie is also back in here and the chef of the second police academy that confronts Lessard's academy. Of course, Mahoney, Tackleberry, Hightower and all the other are also starring in this very funny and entertaining flick, this time as instructors instead of cadets as in the first movie. It's very funny to see all those weird and unique characters in those reversed roles.As you might have noticed, this movie still has a high amount of great ideas, funny scenes and entertaining passages that puts the third part on the same level as the first two movies. The reason why this part got one point less from me is the ending. The motorboat chase scenes are simply too long and ultimately quite boring and I think that a real ending is missing as the movie ends somewhat quite suddenly after the chasing scenes. The should have cut off three minutes of the chasing scenes and added them at the end of the movie in my opinion. The movie ends as if the producers have been in a hurry or lack of imagination.But this only negative point doesn't change a thing that this flick is perfectly entertaining and should please to anyone that has seen the first two parts. After having watched this movie for the very first time I was still really looking forward for the fourth part.

Police Academy films are a weakness of mine, they are stupid, vapid, idiotic and funny as all hell. I do so love these characters and they are in top form as the goofball graduates from the first Academy come back to save their alma mater.It seems that budget constraints have forced Governor Ed Nelson to close one of the two Police Academies. The first one is run by clueless Commandant Lassard as played by George Gaynes. The second is a discipline factory run by the nemesis of the graduates from the second Police Academy movie, Sergeant Mauser, played with relish by Art Metrano now a commandant of that Academy.So a contest is to be held to see which one stays open and our regulars, Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, David Graf, and Leslie Esterbrook go back to help the captain they made life hell for as cadets.When you think about it, are the Police Academy movies any different than the classic Keystone Kops? A lot of the same gags are used and a lot more of them that could never have been got away with back in those days. But the idea is the same, an irreverence for law enforcement in the funniest way.These are not films to write elegant tomes about, they are films to laugh whatever part of your anatomy off you want.