Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)

• Year: 1988
• Released: 18 Mar 1988
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095882/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/police_academy_5_assignment_miami_beach
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/police-academy-5-assignment-miami-beach
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen Curwick
• Director: Alan Myerson
• Cast: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow
• Keywords: investigation, police operation, handcuffs, police everyday life, miami beach,

	4.5/10
	18/100
	0% – Critics
	33% – Audience

Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach Storyline

Commandant Eric Lassard, the head of the academy, has reached mandatory retirement age, much to the delight of Captain Thaddeus Harris, who is planning to take over Lassard’s job. Lassard and a handful of the Academy’s former students travel to Miami for a special ceremony where Lassard is to be honored as the Police Officer of the Decade at a convention. Along for the trip to Miami are Moses Hightower, Eugene Tackleberry, Larvell Jones, Debbie Callahan, Laverne Hooks, Tommy “House” Conklin, and Commissioner Henry Hurst, along with Harris and his right-hand man Proctor. A jewel thief named Manny has smuggled stolen diamonds. Manny’s suitcase is accidentally switched with Lassard’s identical suitcase at the airport in Miami. This gets Lassard and Harris kidnapped by Manny and his two henchmen Julio and Pete, with everyone, including Lassard’s nephew, Sergeant Nick Lassard, in pursuit.

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Not the worst of the bunch

“Assignment: Miami Beach” is the first one in the franchise that doesn’t have Steve Guttenberg, and I’ve got mixed feelings about that. In one way it’s sort of a blessing, because we can finally spend some quality time with Lassard in this one. George Gaynes has always been the best actor of any installment’s cast, so it’s nice to see a sequel where everything revolves around him. Granted, all he really gets to do is have people fall over a bunch of times, but somehow he still makes it work. On the other hand, the movie clearly misses a decent “straight man” to counterbalance all the oddballs. I guess that was new guy Matt McCoy’s task, but given that the guy has no screen presence whatsoever and barely made the final cut it doesn’t quite work. Overall though, I didn’t hate this. I mean, they do the same seven or eight bits they do in all the other ones, but here they do them on a different location! Michael Winslow does his Bruce Lee schtick for the fifth time in five movies, but now on a different location! I was sorta surprised Miami didn’t have a Blue Oyster Bar, to be honest. “Police Academy 5” is not the greatest movie you’ll ever see, but it’ll give you about what you would expect.

Miami Police Academy/Vice

Miami Vice is an obvious influence here … and it is nice that we do not get another “let’s recruit” new cops and train them movie … even though this is called Police Academy and that is what that would mean now isn’t it? Don’t mind that … but as you could already tell from the previous one, spewing those out with such a frantic pace you could tell, new ideas where sparse.

Where to go and what to do? Maybe that was the reason one of the main guys who got famous with the series got out and did not include himself in this part: Steve Guttenberg. He might have been shooting another movie too, not sure what the reasons where. We get people from previous movies though … many of them. Especially our favorite guys to hate … who have a tough job as I already said in the previous movies review.

The scenes on the Miami beach are just plain ridiculous and really seem like sketch comedy with no real value … other than to fill the run time of the movie and add a gag per minute “score”. Even in the previous one where they went to a gay bar (again) for example, you may wonder something that is being asked here: why do I keep falling for these? Because it is a comedy would be the right answer I reckon … anyway, maybe you care, maybe you don’t … but for a completist, I had to watch them … and I will revisit the other remaining two movies too … someday soon.

I split my pant laughing.

This movie was very funny. Hilarious pant splitter.

I like the golf balls and the silly men falling on them. Very nicely done. Very funny. The policemen go to Miami and have some fun on a beach. I split my pant laughing.

They slip on golf balls and hurt themselves. I am laughing now. This is funny. Pant splittingly so.

Later, they are swimming in the sea and slip on a golf ball. Three villains are after them all and decide to leave some golf balls on the floor. The silly policemen fall on the golf balls again. Very funny again. I wet my pant laughing. Genius.

I am loving this movie. Still laughing at it as I write. Very nice indeed. I must go now, I have ripped my trouser. Damn, I must go now.