Police Academy Review

Educational value: This film was intended to entertain, not educate.

Messages: While an argument could be made that the film has a message of "You can be anything you want to be if you put your mind to it," that message is easily lost in the maelstrom of stupid comedy.

Role models: The characters are essentially one-dimensional stereotypes. The authority figures are either overly zealous disciplinarians or bumbling fools.

Violence: Lots of comic slapstick including fistfights, a motorcycle crash, falling headfirst into the backside of a horse. Verbal bullying. A riot breaks out. Rioters are shown looting, brandishing sticks. Gun play between members of the police academy and "the bad guys." Misfired guns throughout.

Sex: Women are shown naked from the waist up while showering. A rear end is shown. A character asks another character if he and his wife "do it doggie style." Two scenes with strongly implied oral sex. Two characters are sent to a gay bar, where patrons dress in leather and force the characters to dance with them. A female character jumps on top of a male character in his room and removes her shirt, while demanding he have sex with her.

Language: Frequent profanity: "crap," "d--khead," "s--t," "a--hole," "goddamn," "pissant," "numbnuts," "son of a bitch," and "f--k." One of the antagonists makes two racial slurs. Another antagonist makes a homophobic pun of another character's last name. Another character says that "sleeping is for fags."

Consumerism: Early in the film, a Kodak photo booth is featured prominently.

Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters are smoking cigarettes throughout. During a party characters are shown smoking, drinking, and acting drunk.