St. Albert's is one of the worst run teaching hospital. A group of interns try to survive under a weird cast of doctors. Mike Bonnert is the scared, bespectacled intern protagonist from two prominent surgeon parents. Dale Dodd is the womanizing friend who falls for their supervisor Sarah Calder. Cynthia Skyes is the veteran nurse. Marlon Thomas is black male intern. Mira Towers is striving to be a cardiac surgeon. Christine Lee follows her parents' plan to be a financially safe dermatologist. Mitzi Cole is secretly stripping to pay for medical school.Comedy veteran Dave Thomas tries to write and direct a theatrical movie. He's got his friends to join him. The veterans are fine but the young leads need to step up. None of them are funny comedians. The material isn't there either. There are some close calls but most of the comedy falls flat. The lack of charisma from the younger cast leave the movie without any pop.

I rented this out of curiosity because I went to school with Carly Pope at Lord Byng Secondary in Vancouver (1996) and wanted to see her acting.I'm not sure how this movie has managed to average a 6.0/10!!! The plot was borderline non-existent/trivial and the acting was all around horrible. It was almost like all the actors realized the movie was crap and just couldn't pull themselves together enough to actually try and act (everyone in the movie had this perpetual smirk).So no intellectual entertainment, but also no realism. Everything from how the hospital was run to how doctors interacted with each other and patients could be nothing more than some kind of extended joke. But it wasn't funny. So for those ER fan types this movie won't satisfy your doctor fantasies while hopefully getting a chuckle or two out of you.So all that is left is possibly comedic value. Surprise surprise...there was none. The jokes were so immature and superficial as to be simply irritating rather than funny. However, I will concede that possibly this movie could be entertaining for children between the ages of 5-9.

I saw this movie for one reason, and one reason alone. There is an abandoned hospital in my city, which has been explored by myself and my friends VERY thoroughly. We found out Intern Academy was being filmed in my city, and that the abandoned hospital briefly became St Alberts Hospital.The movie itself did not have any appeal to me going into the theater, I was specifically there because I thought it'd be neat to figure out what was filmed where in the hospital. I actually ended up enjoying the movie quite a bit, and it was exciting to see the run-down hallways and treatment rooms transformed into a real (looking) hospital again! I also came upon several props from the movie, including the room tag that says Cyril Kipp room 1234 (the placard beside his office door), along with working scripts from the movie.This isn't a review or anything, I just thought it was neat to see how they transformed an abandoned building into a hospital.

First of all, let me say that I was one of the few people in the theater the weekend this came out and that surprised me because, although this is not the best movie ever made, it was far from the worst. Without a Paddle is a good example of what I'm talking about. Intern Academy was WAY funnier that that movie and WAY more people went to see that piece of crap. So how come so few people came out to see Intern Academy? I guess it's the usual Canadian thing where a Canadian Distributor thinks if they put fifty bucks into promoting something, they've given it their best shot. Well too bad for Intern Academy because it deserved better. Starting with the title which put it in a league with Police Academy which has now produced 6 or 7 movies and, as always is the case, the farther down the sequel line they go, the worse the movies become. So giving it that title was definitely a bad idea. I read an interview where Dave Thomas said he didn't like that title and it was forced on him by the distributor. Figures. Also where were the TV commercials? I didn't see a single one. And the ad in the paper was pathetic. I almost didn't go when I saw that tiny little ad because it made me think that they were ashamed of it. All in all, the cast was good and although there were some gratuitous sex jokes and gory parts, the movie had a nice likable tone to it. The girls were cute and the guys were okay (I'm not gay). And the older doctors played by Thomas, Dan Aykroyd, Dave Foley and Maury Chakin were pretty good. I had a lot of laughs which is more than I can say for a lot of American movies that I have seen in the past few years. I would say go check it out, but the movie is gone from the theaters already. Too bad. It deserved a better shot.