Police Academy 5 - Assignment Miami Beach

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (49,349 ratings)

America's most inept law enforcement team mixes business with pleasure as they head to sunny Florida in this comedy. The aging and often-confused head of the Police Academy, Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes), has reached mandatory retirement age, much to the pleasure of the devious Capt. Harris… More

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PG,
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Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 18, 1988 Wide
On DVD
Apr 6, 2004
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Miami field trip only brings a pastel backdrop to the insipid infighting of the boobs in blue.

  • , Time Out

    It's business as usual: fart jokes.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    The real culprit is producer Paul Maslansky, the creator of the Academy films, clearly a man who can never be stopped, not even by a SWAT team of movie critics with blood in their eyes.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    It's exactly what you would expect it to be.

  • Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian

    Surprisingly close to good, surprisingly close to fun, and the best Police Academy movie, No. 5 still reeks of desperation.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Mike S


    Not-so-fun in the sun. Being the fourth sequel in the series, it's not surprising this lacks the ingredients that made the first few films so funny. The script is a mess, the bad guys really corny and like something out of a second-rate Disney movie. Sure, it could be worse, but… More

  • AJ V


    This was the worst Police Academy movie I've seen so far. Moving the setting of a series to Miami is usually a bad sign, I guess. Still it did have a couple of laughs, so I didn't rate it any lower.

  • Luke B


    Choosing plot over simply adding in numerous characters proves to be the downfall of the Police Academy series. Without Guttenberg there's no clear anchor for the film. We get the cliched and simple (though still charming) side characters in abundance. Matt McCoy tries to fill… More

  • Wahida K


    Hold everything! The cadets are dropping in on Miami Beach.

  • Jason O


    After a wave of sequels that seemed to get progressively worse with each one, this one picked the series back up and is probably the best of the sequels, IMO.

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