I remember watching this obsessively on video when younger. It’s an 80s teen comedy par excellance, a worthy follow up to Police Academy – a bunch of misfits unite to battle an authority figure, who is actually corrupt.
The jokes like the plot are rickety, but the cast is fascinating – there’s a wisecracking Mahoney-like hero (John Murray, Bill’s brother – who actually is good value), a sex-mad female cop, a politician who’s into bondage (Sally Kellerman), a corrupt authority figure (James Keach), a nerdy guy who gets involved with an underage girl like Animal House (he is played by Brian Backer, who was the nerd in Fast Times at Ridgemount High – and Police Academy 4), a wacky little old lady, a chubby girl (played by the chubby girl from Bachelor Party and Bosum Buddies), a comedy conservative black, a bloodthirsty type (played by the cop on Law and Order: SVU), a stuffy doctor (Fred Willard). There’s also this character with a perm who doesn’t seem to have any purpose in the film –a sort of conservative friend of Murray’s. Plus Don Cheadle as a drive in attendant. Right on!
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