Police Academy 3 - Back in Training

Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)

  • 40% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 48% of users liked it
    (55,915 ratings)

In this third installment of the slapstick comedy series about novice police officers with less than dubious abilities, two police academies have to compete with each other in order to stay in business. The state's skinflint governor claims he has less money to spread around, so one of the… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Gene Quintano
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 21, 1986 Wide
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    It's perfectly serviceable.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    More of same slap-shtick w/familiar cast of goofballs.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    You can argue quality, you can argue taste, but you can't argue the phenomenal success of these cheaply made joke-fests.

  • Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian

    Deadly-dull pacing and overuse of old gags ruin Police Academy 3, the first of the franchise to come anywhere near 'enjoyable.'

  • Greg Muskewitz, eFilmCritic.com

    The franchise hasn't changed, but that means the humor is still amiably the same, too.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    The third Police Academy movie, and I'm still liking it! Why? It's still funny, has all the same actors, and the story's not bad. If you liked the first two, see this one too.

  • Luke B


    Part three brings back some of the old and also promotes incidental characters to bigger parts. Zed, Sweetchuck, Fackler's Wife, Tackelberry's brother in law etc. are all now becoming police officer. It doesn't add as much intrigue as you would think, as most of the… More

  • Wahida K


    Police Academy! Dümmer als die Polize erlaubt

  • Anthony L


    The franchise started to go downhill quite a lot from here onwards

  • Tsubaki S


    On my defense, i was sick on bed these days. Two stars just for Leslie Easterbrook's boobs.

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