Police Academy 6 – Widerstand zwecklos (1989)

Police Academy 6 – Widerstand zwecklos: Directed by Peter Bonerz. With Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook. Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

“In u0026quot;Police Academy 6: City Under Siegeu0026quot;, the gangu0026#39;s all here to save a crime-ridden city from the wrath of 3 white guys named the Wilson Heights Gang…I imagine this complicated premise was pitched to Warner Bros execs something to the effect of u0026quot;Um, they like to rob stuff…and theyu0026#39;re bad guys. Oh, and the cityu0026#39;s under siege because of them.u0026quot; I know this is slapstick and it was never intentioned to be taken seriously, but even when writing a film like this you have to TRY, at least TRY to write something good!!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyway, the cast is all here, again, and theyu0026#39;re not unlike the line of lower-income, shady low-lifes I see waiting outside the Department of Labor office every morning to pick up their unemployment checks. I donu0026#39;t think these guys even bother auditioning for other parts anymore, theyu0026#39;re all blacklisted for life. Thereu0026#39;s Lt. Harris, once funny and a believable antagonist, now a cartoonish straight man to his bumbling apprentice Proctor, the two of them like some ill-fated and painfully unfunny Abbot u0026amp; Costello bit that goes on too long. Way, way, waaaaay too long. Thereu0026#39;s Hightower, for the sixth time, heu0026#39;s big and black. Really big and black. Ha-ha-ha. Hooks and Tackleberry are here, oh Lord, donu0026#39;t forget about Hooks and Tackleberry…sheu0026#39;s mousy and timid but sometimes she yells loudly, and T-man, heu0026#39;s a walking arsenal who loves guns! Most interesting though is Nick McCoy (I canu0026#39;t remember the character name) whou0026#39;s simply a modern replacement for Steve Guttenberg and his Carey Mahoney. Both are bright-eyed and boyish, both the unofficial leader of the gang. Put all these guys together and you have…well, you have…you have a cast, I guess.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePolice Academy 6 should have been the end. The sad, painful end to a once respectable series (meaning the first P.A. only) that had gone on seemingly forever, like that old uncle who lives in Jersey whou0026#39;s 103 and canu0026#39;t walk or talk, just lays in bed and mumbles in pain with everyone waiting for him to pass on and finally be at peace. Instead, a seventh police academy was made. It never made it to the theaters and I have yet to see it, but I remember seeing its preview in the movies some years back…as soon as the title and Robert Folku0026#39;s Academy March started, a universal groan filled the theater. I think the marketing execs were in that theater and got the idea. But donu0026#39;t worry, Academy fans, Iu0026#39;m sure thereu0026#39;ll be an eighth and a ninth, and a tenth…it will outlive us all, this series. And true genius is never recognized in its own time.”