Nowadays, people who rip on the Police Academy movies forget what they were all about in the first place: just because someone doesn't match up to other people's standards doesn't mean they can't be a hero.
People rip on these movies now? I’m such an 80s kid I guess. These weren’t about having a Christopher Nolan type film. IT was about fun and escape . A reason to laugh for hours without apology. Fuck critics we all have an opinion and none of them mean anything to anyone other than ourselves. I for one am so grateful to have grown up during this time period. It really was the best . We weren’t talking about remakes for a reason.
Mahoney: ^to Lassard^ 😳 Lassard: 😏 You didn't think I made "commandant," without pulling the kind of prank you pulled on me, did you? It's the oldest trick in the book.
Police Academy had all aspects of a perfect 80s comedy: great story, underdog wins, ability to tell a story in under 3 hours and its own song. The other ones had their moments but this was something new and fun. Great movie.
In the 80s and 90s movies were so inspirational like this song say " I want to be some body" they made you feel you could do anything. Now all we have are dark movies with the main characters as Hitmen that kill people, yeah what great role model characters for movies. There are no movies around now that make you think yes I want to do that I want to make a difference, everything is just dark and empty, with no desire to do anything.
Chief that because today movies tend to reflect a lot of foul that that is happening in the real world I love a lot of superheroe movies thah were made and a few of one good cop movies until a person like me has a run with a real cop and gets treated like a shit on more than one occasion Now with that being said people realize this world has lat less sunshine and puppies and more wolves and dark skies
The first Police Academy was the BEST one! The look on Mahoney's face was PRICELESS after Lassard got him back! Makes you wonder whether the commandant was schooling the rookie on what HE was like when he was younger? R.I.P. George Gaynes.....there are MANY, MANY things you can teach the angels!
+Travis Owens He was probably thinking "Who do you think invented all the pranks you did?" As Lassard would say "There are many, many reasons why I am Commandant. This is one of them"
This pops up again in 3 when the hooker shows up at the Ball and the Chief asks "Who the hell is that?" to which Lassard replies "Oh, just an... Old, old friend"
I hate to be the one that goes there, but I do love the message of the imagery that is showed as the credits rolled. All the VIP's rising and saluting was like saying to this group "congrats, you made it, your part of the club". I always get a charge when Callahan yells eyes right, and seeing the group do it. There is so much there, guys, girls, tall short, different colors, its great when the club gets more diverse. Great job on the actors all willing to do it, and I loved how they all brought something to the scene whether they meant to or not. Hooks looked like "see i can do it", Hightower is like "wow, I made it", tackleberry like "yup, this is what I was supposed to be doing", mahoney like "cool dude".
Yup! Marching very well, in-time, and with pride!! The clown, the debutante, and the player(wearing hat within regulation but still a little extra something). They are going to be somebody! I feel you and feel it!
@Robert Lopresti nope. When there were movie rental stores, I'd rent movies like this (R-rated), and when they'd initially refuse to let me rent it because it was rated R, I told them to look up the membership info on my mother and it said, "My kids have permission to rent out R-rated movies," and I'd take'em home 😊.
I had forgotten how R-rated it was and showed my boys the movie a few years ago. 😂😂😂 It went fine and we all enjoyed the movie, but I was like, "I forgot about some of those scenes!" 🤣
r rating , 15 in uk , r rating on low budget 5m with studio laughing 150m , i thought it was pg till looked at the usa poster the salad bar is funny , dancing mostly dancing
If I was given a month to live, this would be a film I'd watch before I went. So many memories. Watched this film practically everyday with my best mate. Good times and at the time, I never knew what the booth scene was really all about! I was only 10. LOL
AlphaOscarRomeo Jack is that you? My buddy and me used to watch this all the time during the summers. We were like 10 or 11. We broke things up by watching Teen Wolf. Great times. Alpha Mike Foxtrot!!!
1984 and 1985, great years for cinema and comedy movies just think we had ramis, akroyd, hughes, Zemeckis writing or just finishing writing screenplays that we will become to love
LOL Harris really looks thrilled after the salute and fade away...... Well, he won't have to worry about dealing with his new recruits until Police Academy 4!
This is why I like Harris in the first movie. He maybe a hard ass, but he genuinely cared about seeing his cadets succeed. They should've kept him like this in the later movies. Maybe have him deal with Mauser in the 2nd film.
Saw movie in the theatre when I was 12. Might have been silly, looking back now, but overall it was lots of fun. The central theme of misfits and underdogs becoming heroes, encapsulated by the song, is quite strong and gave the film its charm.
lelwut Yeah, there’s a small smile there. He’s ruthless but did tell Mahoney earlier in the film he wanted to actually train good cops and Mahoney was messing that up. I think a part of him was proud of them.
The subsequent films turned Harris into a buffoon, but I like how in this one he's still fairly competent, and the jokes are at the expense of the entire cast, and not just him. In fact, the last few jokes are at Mahoney and Fachler's expense (including a callback to a joke at Lassard's expense), and Harris is pretty much the straight guy/audience POV character at the end, sighing at what a bunch of misfits he's ended up with.
I remember being a kid in the 80s, I'd watch this movie at my granny's house. If only I could go back in time and tell that kid to not worry so much and that everything would be ok.
The fact that a comedy that had this much sex in it became a kids cartoons only 4 years later is amazing. That and that they made 6 films in the series in only 6 years, before a long break.
I worked that Mahoney's address into a speech I held in front of the parents on graduation day couple of years back. I was a teacher at the time, still am.
I really like this movie and the song "I'm Gonna Be Somebody." As many many many of us remember, at Lou's Cafe in Back To The Future, Goldie Wilson was motivating George McFly to standing up for himself by telling him he wasn't going to spend the rest of his life at that cafe, and that he's going to do night school and one day he'd be somebody. Marty brought in that he'd become mayor of Hill Valley. Goldie says he'll clean up Hill Valley as Mayor Goldie Wilson. "I like the sound of that." Me? I'm gonna be somebody one day, too. I'm going to become a private detective and open up my own detective agency. "Private Detective Sam Harris." I like the sound of that.
I was watching this movie 🎥 last night. Man it's been a very very very very long time since I watched this movie. I love all the Police Academy Movies. I am a died hard fan of them all.
This is one of my most precious memories i have from time when I was around 7 years old when I've seen this movie first time and I watched it over and over and over ... I loved it so much that I was imagining how Im walking amongst them In the credits and saluting :D Good times ..... 320 ;)
Love this movie to death!! Looking at the credits, Capt. Harris (Lt. Harris at the time) looked a little bit relieved that he didn't have to deal with Mahoney again...at least until Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol! :-) Lol
I'm glad I saw these replies .. I honestly thought I was the only weirdo out there who liked it... when police academy came out in the 80's, I rewound the VHS video tape many times to hear it... the lyrics are inspiring and uplifting, with a awesome beat...
I love this movie and to those not here today from this movie may rest in peace as like a real police officer but they will be remember as they were a funny police squad in the academy I love it when the get the best of Capt Harris in Police Academy 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7
I saw this movie when I was 7 years old. After seeing it many times, I had my mind made up that I wanted to be a police officer. Unfortunately, that dream didn’t come true for me.
Welcome to the club. I gag the makings of a great police officer there ever would’ve been, but I never got to be because of some “certain people” I trusted. They weren’t police officers, but I did trust them and they let me down. I know what happened and how. Heck, even the police and the military were and are in my family history and legacy. Note, it’s up to me to prepare it ahead for the next generation as a continuance in the family legacy and tradition and history. It’s what our ancestors would’ve wanted. Even my mother (God rest her soul) would’ve wanted it that way.
I love this scene when Mahoney got serviced at the podium it made me laugh this was the this was one of the best movies of the 80s and 90s and I've love those cops all they know how to do is screw up
this was one of the first music videos i recorded on to tape and what a feel good song it was, you cant beat the eighties, the music the films the whole scene was one good time, bring it ll back!
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Nowadays, people who rip on the Police Academy movies forget what they were all about in the first place: just because someone doesn't match up to other people's standards doesn't mean they can't be a hero.
People rip on these movies now? I’m such an 80s kid I guess. These weren’t about having a Christopher Nolan type film. IT was about fun and escape . A reason to laugh for hours without apology. Fuck critics we all have an opinion and none of them mean anything to anyone other than ourselves. I for one am so grateful to have grown up during this time period. It really was the best . We weren’t talking about remakes for a reason.
This ending is maximum feel-good❤
It’s how movies of that era left you; feeling like the world is a wonderful place to be in!!😊
This song was kickass, i can listen to it all day 😊
RIP to those who have passed away, you will be greatly missed ☹️
not was, is.
"I'm gonna be somebody" = by Jack Mack and The Heart Attack.
Keep well 👍
The look on Mahoney's face is epic. And when he looks at the Commandant, priceless!
And the zip noise 😂
Mahoney: ^to Lassard^ 😳
Lassard: 😏 You didn't think I made "commandant," without pulling the kind of prank you pulled on me, did you? It's the oldest trick in the book.
@@geoffwilliams4478For example the first slllliiiideee
@@2410jrod OMG! You wouldn't believe it!
Sunday April 23rd 2023 morning 903am😮
This song is classic and so are the movies. These will live on forever,, like it or not. Police academy 4ever!!!!!!
I miss the 80s terribly!! We never knew how good we had it!!
You got that right buddy I was born in 1981 damn I miss those days ❤❤❤
Ain't that the truth
@mikeclifford5393 so do I
Guys Harris face ls priceless gw Bailey some actor long live the 80s
Police Academy had all aspects of a perfect 80s comedy: great story, underdog wins, ability to tell a story in under 3 hours and its own song. The other ones had their moments but this was something new and fun. Great movie.
I freaking love this song.
R.I.P to Andrew Rubin, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Debralee Scott and George Gaynes
Now Marion Ramsey, too....😣
What about the actor who played the chief in all the movies is he still alive or is he gone as well
@@kevinmiller7812 George R Robertson died this year
@@Squab1972 Mauser died two years ago.
R.İ.P. Dennis Farina
In the 80s and 90s movies were so inspirational like this song say " I want to be some body" they made you feel you could do anything. Now all we have are dark movies with the main characters as Hitmen that kill people, yeah what great role model characters for movies. There are no movies around now that make you think yes I want to do that I want to make a difference, everything is just dark and empty, with no desire to do anything.
Yeah, i feel you...
That's exactly what today's Star Trek fans keep lamenting.
Chief that because today movies tend to reflect a lot of foul that that is happening in the real world
I love a lot of superheroe movies thah were made and a few of one good cop movies until a person like me has a run with a real cop and gets treated like a shit on more than one occasion
Now with that being said people realize this world has lat less sunshine and puppies and more wolves and dark skies
So true!
💪💪🔥🔥
At least we can still look back at 80s movies
the Best decade ever!
💯
Rip Hooks....lassard hightower..captian reed...tackberry
The first Police Academy was the BEST one! The look on Mahoney's face was PRICELESS after Lassard got him back! Makes you wonder whether the commandant was schooling the rookie on what HE was like when he was younger?
R.I.P. George Gaynes.....there are MANY, MANY things you can teach the angels!
Makes you wonder what Lassard got away with when he was a cadet
+Travis Owens He was probably thinking "Who do you think invented all the pranks you did?" As Lassard would say "There are many, many reasons why I am Commandant. This is one of them"
This pops up again in 3 when the hooker shows up at the Ball and the Chief asks "Who the hell is that?" to which Lassard replies "Oh, just an... Old, old friend"
Lassard was like, "I knew you didn't do it to me originally."
I grew up with this movie.. You can se it over, and over, and over, and over again and NEVER get bored with it :D Best movie EVER!!
R.I.P Marion Ramsey (Officer Laverne Hooks)
R.I.P. Cmdt. Lassard 1917-2016
Oops.
Cmdt. Lassard = George Gaynes
God i love Tacklebarry.
Andrew Rubin (Cadet George Martin) June 22, 1946 - October 5, 2015
MrRIGGIU Mahoney’s buddy George Martin died of cancer too.
1:46 Marion Ramsey rest forever.
Such an inspiring song. Great meaning to it
Lassard got Mahoney back, real good!
I hate to be the one that goes there, but I do love the message of the imagery that is showed as the credits rolled. All the VIP's rising and saluting was like saying to this group "congrats, you made it, your part of the club". I always get a charge when Callahan yells eyes right, and seeing the group do it. There is so much there, guys, girls, tall short, different colors, its great when the club gets more diverse. Great job on the actors all willing to do it, and I loved how they all brought something to the scene whether they meant to or not. Hooks looked like "see i can do it", Hightower is like "wow, I made it", tackleberry like "yup, this is what I was supposed to be doing", mahoney like "cool dude".
Yup! Marching very well, in-time, and with pride!! The clown, the debutante, and the player(wearing hat within regulation but still a little extra something). They are going to be somebody! I feel you and feel it!
An R-rated movie that we all saw during our childhood! 😂
Providing we saw it on television and it was edited for content.
@Robert Lopresti nope. When there were movie rental stores, I'd rent movies like this (R-rated), and when they'd initially refuse to let me rent it because it was rated R, I told them to look up the membership info on my mother and it said, "My kids have permission to rent out R-rated movies," and I'd take'em home 😊.
I had forgotten how R-rated it was and showed my boys the movie a few years ago. 😂😂😂 It went fine and we all enjoyed the movie, but I was like, "I forgot about some of those scenes!" 🤣
r rating , 15 in uk , r rating on low budget 5m with studio laughing 150m , i thought it was pg till looked at the usa poster
the salad bar is funny , dancing mostly dancing
@@andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748 It was rated R because PG-13 didn't exist until July of 1984 and Police Academy was released in March of 1984. 🤗🎬🎥🎞
Damn, I miss the 80's :(
I want get in my hot tub time machine and go back to the 80s 😂
I love how Eric Lassard starts looking around the crowd after Mahoney mentions the pope.
Haha never realised that
Finally got this song on Spotify
The commandant’s face is priceless at the end. Now it’s Steve’s turn. 😂🤣😂🤣
Love the timing of this March with the song. Miss the whole crew. Was so proud of them but never laughed so hard. Family
Thank you Cmndt. Lassard. Chief Hurst. Madam Mayor. Mr. President. His Holiness The Pope. The King Of Norway. And our other honor guests.
"... and thanks to the hooker inside the podium..."
🤣🤣🤣
I love how he looks at the camera after you here his pants zip..lol
If I was given a month to live, this would be a film I'd watch before I went. So many memories. Watched this film practically everyday with my best mate. Good times and at the time, I never knew what the booth scene was really all about! I was only 10. LOL
AlphaOscarRomeo Jack is that you? My buddy and me used to watch this all the time during the summers. We were like 10 or 11. We broke things up by watching Teen Wolf. Great times. Alpha Mike Foxtrot!!!
AlphaOscarRomeo Me too! xD it made sense decades later... Wish I could have buddies like you back in the days! :D
This is very, very, very good
I shall listen to it many many many times over 🤔
1984 and 1985, great years for cinema and comedy movies
just think we had ramis, akroyd, hughes, Zemeckis writing or just finishing writing screenplays that we will become to love
You may not have noticed this, but there is a shot in the crowd of Fackler's wife applauding and happy her hubby made it.
A nice touch, and of course, she comes back as a trainee for Police Academy 3.
You start this car you're a dead man buster
I love Lassard, the look on his face when mahoney looks at him xD
LOL Harris really looks thrilled after the salute and fade away...... Well, he won't have to worry about dealing with his new recruits until Police Academy 4!
Him as Captain Harris and the swan song for Mahoney, probably my favorite of the sequels
It's more like he's proud of them at the end.
Police Academy and DC Cab are my favorite movies from this Awesome decade...I miss my childhood 😢
Last shot shows Harris sort of smiling a little bit, like he realizes they were good cops.
Yeah, he's made his peace with them. He sighs but he doesn't seem contemptuous.
This is why I like Harris in the first movie. He maybe a hard ass, but he genuinely cared about seeing his cadets succeed. They should've kept him like this in the later movies. Maybe have him deal with Mauser in the 2nd film.
@GregOrCreg I always thought that he was, watching the scene.
Still remember falling in love with this movie and song that the tape on the VHS started crumpling
police academy is the beast 👌👮😀
Saw movie in the theatre when I was 12. Might have been silly, looking back now, but overall it was lots of fun. The central theme of misfits and underdogs becoming heroes, encapsulated by the song, is quite strong and gave the film its charm.
Lucky time to live in, wish we still had films like this in the 2020s
2.15 - I love how Harris finally lets out a slight smile! LOL, great film and absolutely great tune!
Yeah, despite of being huge prick, he's still proud of the cadets he trained.
lelwut Yeah, there’s a small smile there. He’s ruthless but did tell Mahoney earlier in the film he wanted to actually train good cops and Mahoney was messing that up. I think a part of him was proud of them.
Even Mahoney himself agreed because despite the stuff he did to Harris, the former does respect him.
The subsequent films turned Harris into a buffoon, but I like how in this one he's still fairly competent, and the jokes are at the expense of the entire cast, and not just him.
In fact, the last few jokes are at Mahoney and Fachler's expense (including a callback to a joke at Lassard's expense), and Harris is pretty much the straight guy/audience POV character at the end, sighing at what a bunch of misfits he's ended up with.
I got that feeling regarding Harris's look!
He has that "OH, God" look.
RIP David Graf and Bubba Smith as well :(
i am also sad. they were great actors. and great pistol
Mahoney’s friend George Martin died too. He had cancer.
John Sullivan, I Totally Agree with you. We'll See Them in the Great Police Station in the Sky, Friend. :'-(
Yep, May Those Popular Police Fans Rest in Police Heaven. You Folks will Always be Inside our Police Beating Hearts. :'-(
Ted Ross rest forever.
Thank you Toronto, probably the best movie you have let our city create.
Best one ever although sequels has some gems . The soundtrack to this one is epic.
I remember being a kid in the 80s, I'd watch this movie at my granny's house. If only I could go back in time and tell that kid to not worry so much and that everything would be ok.
The fact that a comedy that had this much sex in it became a kids cartoons only 4 years later is amazing. That and that they made 6 films in the series in only 6 years, before a long break.
Plus a TV series in the 1990's.
The 80s man, so many rated R movies became cartoons then LOL
What a tune, alway loved this record. I was 4 and a half in 1984.
I worked that Mahoney's address into a speech I held in front of the parents on graduation day couple of years back. I was a teacher at the time, still am.
I love this. The build up previous to this ending is so nice and emotional , films don't do this anymore bring back films of the 80/s and 90/s I say
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Rest In Peace Hightower & Tackleberry :-(
As a child I always played that I was one of them and saluted while walking through the living room xD
I really like this movie and the song "I'm Gonna Be Somebody."
As many many many of us remember, at Lou's Cafe in Back To The Future, Goldie Wilson was motivating George McFly to standing up for himself by telling him he wasn't going to spend the rest of his life at that cafe, and that he's going to do night school and one day he'd be somebody. Marty brought in that he'd become mayor of Hill Valley. Goldie says he'll clean up Hill Valley as Mayor Goldie Wilson. "I like the sound of that."
Me? I'm gonna be somebody one day, too. I'm going to become a private detective and open up my own detective agency. "Private Detective Sam Harris." I like the sound of that.
This is my favorite Police academy mostly because of this song.
Such a feel-good song!!
Favorite childhood movie
I love the ending.
I was watching this movie 🎥 last night. Man it's been a very very very very long time since I watched this movie. I love all the Police Academy Movies. I am a died hard fan of them all.
Too many good memories
This is one of my most precious memories i have from time when I was around 7 years old when I've seen this movie first time and I watched it over and over and over ... I loved it so much that I was imagining how Im walking amongst them In the credits and saluting :D Good times ..... 320 ;)
Stormtrooper You did see the 'edited' version when you were seven, right?
Robert Lopresti As far as I remember I saw normal version.I didn't know that there are some different versions...
You saw it when it was on TV, right? Not the uncut version.
Me 2 bud, almost the same, good times
how could anyone in their right mind vote this down??
GREAT movie.
great tune, great ending
Love this movie to death!! Looking at the credits, Capt. Harris (Lt. Harris at the time) looked a little bit relieved that he didn't have to deal with Mahoney again...at least until Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol! :-) Lol
He was always the butt of Mahoney and Jones' practical jokes.
one of my favorite songs
@JayFingers
unbelievable song!!!!!! i want to go back to the 80's... :(
I can´t remember how often I watched the ending only to hear the song
Harris's face is priceless, lol 🙄😑😤
This movie takes me back to the good old days.
I love 1:13 - 1:16 when Sgt. Callahan leads the group and salutes families and top authorities.
I love this movie
Can you imagine if all the movies had been as good as this one? I wonder what would've happened if Hugh Wilson had come back to direct.
This is the only movie that i actually enjoyed watching the final credits
RIP George Gaynes AKA Commandant Lassard
I want a remake movie of this movie with the same cast and everything it's shame some of them have sadly past rip
There’s been talk of a reboot.
@@eyeseer1 ik iv heard bout it
Just watched it on TV today after 15 years, one of my favourites when I was little. It is the best feel good song!
Top 5 comedy of all time.
I'm glad I saw these replies
.. I honestly thought I was the only weirdo out there who liked it... when police academy came out in the 80's, I rewound the VHS video tape many times to hear it... the lyrics are inspiring and uplifting, with a awesome beat...
@ 1:44 RIP David Graf aka Tackleberry
what the fuck...........................? How did the poor SOB go???
john johnsom Massive heart attack in 2001, 50 years young...
I guess that George Martin (Mahoney’s friend) died too. He had cancer.
Best cop movie ever
A Classic
Timeless classic. Sunday mornings with your family all laughing and having fun :D good times
Best time of Hollywood
the 80's !!!
The Best Decade of All Times !!!
The greatest feel good movie of them all😎👍
RIP, Bubba Smith
I love this movie and to those not here today from this movie may rest in peace as like a real police officer but they will be remember as they were a funny police squad in the academy I love it when the get the best of Capt Harris in Police Academy 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7
the 80s rock we had the best movies lol
Sad that So many of This Amazing Cast are no longer with Us 😢
They'll Never be Forgotten Due to this Epic Flim
Effing love Harris, best film cop ever.
Brilliant ending to one of my favourite films. I like all the police academy movies.....probably could have lived without 6 and 7 though 🤣
I put this song on my workout Playlist. Love to listen to it while jogging. 🏃♂️
I saw this movie when I was 7 years old. After seeing it many times, I had my mind made up that I wanted to be a police officer. Unfortunately, that dream didn’t come true for me.
Welcome to the club. I gag the makings of a great police officer there ever would’ve been, but I never got to be because of some “certain people” I trusted. They weren’t police officers, but I did trust them and they let me down. I know what happened and how. Heck, even the police and the military were and are in my family history and legacy. Note, it’s up to me to prepare it ahead for the next generation as a continuance in the family legacy and tradition and history. It’s what our ancestors would’ve wanted. Even my mother (God rest her soul) would’ve wanted it that way.
I like the sigh harris makes at the end lol
Love the song at the end. Also, notice the last shot of Harris he seems to smile a bit?
R.I.P. George gaynes
I love this scene when Mahoney got serviced at the podium it made me laugh this was the this was one of the best movies of the 80s and 90s and I've love those cops all they know how to do is screw up
Loved it when Hooks turned and looked at Harris with her expression like he thought I wasn’t gonna make it😂😂😂
this was one of the first music videos i recorded on to tape and what a feel good song it was, you cant beat the eighties, the music the films the whole scene was one good time, bring it ll back!
great memories and really funny movie
The credits scene is great, wish it didn't have the credits in the whole middle of it
It's a great tune it makes me think of the 80s
I love a whole bunch of movies, but this one is by far my favorite. ❤️
I'm gonna be somebody..... :D