Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)
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0% of critics liked it
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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 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 (G.W. Bailey), who is still scheming to take over his job. Lassard, Harris, and a handful of the Academy's "distinguished" graduates (including Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, and Marion Ramsey) travel to Miami Beach for a special ceremony to commemorate Lassard's years of service as he leaves the force; however, a luggage mix-up puts the clumsy cops in the middle of a massive illegal arms deal. Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach was the first film in the long-running series that did not star Steve Guttenberg (Bob Goldthwait also left the franchise at this point), but most of the other regulars bravely soldiered on without him. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Alan Myerson
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Mar 18, 1988 Wide
- On DVD
- Apr 6, 2004
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
Miami field trip only brings a pastel backdrop to the insipid infighting of the boobs in blue.
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, Time Out
It's business as usual: fart jokes.
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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.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
It's exactly what you would expect it to be.
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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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Cast
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Matt McCoy
as Nick
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Janet Jones
as Kate Stratton
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George Gaynes
as Commandant Lassard
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G.W. Bailey
as Capt. Harris
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Rene Auberjonois
as Tony Stark
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Bubba Smith
as Moses Hightower
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David Graf
as Eugene Tackleberry
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Michael Winslow
as Larvell Jones
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Leslie Easterbrook
as Debbie Callahan
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Marion Ramsey
as Lawrence Hooks
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Lance Kinsey
as Proctor
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Tab Thacker
as House
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Larry Block
as Louis
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Toni Crabtree
as Activities Announcer
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Archie Hahn III
as Mouse
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James Hampton
as Mayor of Miami
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Julio Oscar Mechoso
as Shooting-range Cop
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Ruben Rabasa
as Julian
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George R. Robertson
as Hurst
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Scott Weinger
as Shark-attack Kid
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Jeff Gillen
as Thief's Victim
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Jerry Lazarus
as Sugar
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Pam Bogart
as Harris' Pick-up
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Jeff Breslauer
as News Photographer
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Dan Burrows
as Bob the Janitor
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Arthur Edwards
as Thief in Drag
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Ruth Farley
as Airport Information
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Don Fitzgerald
as Commissioner Murdock
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Kathryn Grey
as Stewardess
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Susan Hatfield
as Mayor's Wife
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Richard Jansen
as Kid with Toy Plane
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Tom Kouchalakos
as Manny
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Ed Koynes
as Dempsey
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Dana Mare
as Graduating Policewoman
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A.L. Meet
as Cigar Smoker
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Nelson Orames
as Crowd-control Cop
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Angelo Reno
as Pete
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Joni Siani
as TV Interviewer
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Via VanNess
as Stewardess
- Fern Champion
- Pamela Basker
- Dee Miller
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Anthony Correa
as Alex the ticket agent
- Archie Hahn

