The Reel Rejects - POLICE ACADEMY (1984) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:32 Let's get on the beat. Michael Jackson. Nope. Maybe. Let's see. All right. Cadet Alexander. How do you feel?

Starting point is 00:01:52 What did you think of the police academy? The police academy was fun. I had a good time with it. it's definitely of its time for sure in spite of that fact you know it still has a lot of humor to offer even though some of the humor is a little outdated yeah careful can't acknowledge those things

Starting point is 00:02:10 too heavily the hematomy might eclipse the entire video sorry no no I know I know it's funny to go back to a movie that certainly also if you're listening to this on Apple and Spotify please if you would give us a rating five stars is my suggestion

Starting point is 00:02:27 but you know it's up to you But, yeah, like going back to copyright 1984. So, yeah, we're in the 80s, I believe. Oh, okay. And, yeah, to go back to a movie where obviously part of it is like, it's a different time. Like, this doesn't, I think, push the boundary of that quite as hard as, like, you know, certain other movies of the time.

Starting point is 00:02:48 But there's certainly a lot of this that is very much like, oh, yeah, this is very much of its time. Yeah, definitely. Very 80s. But continue. Yeah, no, it was definitely very 80s. I liked our lead. you know like our cast of characters I wish we got to spend a little bit more time

Starting point is 00:03:02 with some of the other ones because like his love interest was very much just kind of surface level even though it's not like a deep explorative movie you know I would have liked to spend some more time kind of spread a little thin on some aspects of things but again the humor was great our lead guy

Starting point is 00:03:19 Mahoney was really funny funny enough I haven't actually seen him in anything prior to this but he definitely has that leading man quality I can easily see like Had he been that age today, he would definitely be part of some, like, major franchises. Yeah, and like he has that, because the Amazon is suggesting stripes, which is a movie I grew up with. And this reminded me of that.

Starting point is 00:03:42 And he reminds me of a Bill Murray type, but actually with Steve Gutenberg, I can kind of see him working in a slightly more varied spectrum of like either more comedic or a little more straight man, like, whereas Bill Murray, I feel like it's kind of always Bill Murray. Murray, but he is very much kind of like the Bill Murray type character of this movie where like he's the rascal, he's like kind of cool and disaffected by a lot of stuff, but he's forced to gain some discipline and rise to some kind of occasion.

Starting point is 00:04:13 Yeah. But this does, yeah, this feels kind of like it's in the middle ground between being like a narrative comedy movie and being like an amalgam of sketches based on this concept. You have like stuff to do. Yeah, can we have a suggestion of a place, please, a police academy?

Starting point is 00:04:28 me police academy thank you all right here's a much of scenes you know yeah yeah it's like there's kind of a loose plot but like each one of the things you got to see for the most part was like was it was extremely funny yeah uh yeah and just like the the different gags and and bits we got to go through and the the characters we got to know like the the one dude to make the sound effects was really funny like oh win's low good uh even though the the main guy who's giving Mahoney scruff or strife or whatever giving him trouble. Guff. Yeah, there he go. I like that word.

Starting point is 00:05:04 He was also really good in the movie. He was funny in his stiffness and he walked that line of being a character who is very serious about what he's doing but that's what adds to the humor of it. He's a character that really believes in what he's doing and because of that he is the joke. Yeah, totally. And he's like in the middle. He's like in

Starting point is 00:05:25 between because you meet him with the commandant who's clearly like, you know, kind of a, he seems like a good-natured fellow and it seems clearly uncomfortable with like what the head dude is all like, where is all the Johnsons and why are there all these non-white people here? And then you have him in the middle as like silent at first. So you're like, what is this guy's role? And then to have him be sort of like the drill sergeant who we have to be up against the whole movie, you know, kind of puts him in a fun position because he basically just has to be sour puss. He has to the straight man and I think that can be a thankless role it's like everybody wants to be Steve Gutenberg or wants to be one of the one of the characters we're laughing more with however

Starting point is 00:06:05 like big respect to that actor uh because to play a role like that I thought it was really funny uh and you have to commit to that and I thought he did a really great job with the role that yeah again could be thankless or could be more bland or something like that you know um no yeah like yeah it's like what can you say like it is I thought this largely you know, in terms of aging, because that's another thing, especially when you're going back to 80s comedy. I don't know. Like, it's funny, watching Crocodile Dundee, I feel like certain people got more upset than we did. Yeah, right?

Starting point is 00:06:36 About certain of the things that had aged. And I feel like part of the fun of any, you know, viewing experience going back decades is to note, like, oh, how has time and sensibility changed? And we live in a moment now where, like, our awareness of the police and their role in society and what happens behind closed doors, you know, on their side. of the line like you know policing is sort of a hotly debated issue nowadays and certainly like you even watch brooklyn 9 9 and like they they have to kind of get serious once in a while and be like oh hey systemic issue so like a movie like this could age very poorly um but for the most part again it's like you have certain things that and and it's funny because you know and i don't want to make this all about another video but yeah like when you look back on stuff you know like a

Starting point is 00:07:23 movie like a crocodile dundee you're like yeah this is a product of its time and some of these things are like you can't use any of these words because like people lose their minds but you know like stuff that hasn't aged as well most of that you can just go yeah it's a product of its time and we get it and you know blah blah and i feel like those elements exist here it's like oh yeah we're doing the classic we're peering into the girls dormitory you know showers and whatnot or we're like oh we're sending these dudes into a gay bar so it's like yeah like these things could be handled worsely in the movie A and B, you know, like those are products of the time where I'm like, yeah, you know, we get it. We get that these jokes would be shaped differently nowadays.

Starting point is 00:08:03 But yeah, this rarely, I don't think ever crossed out of, you know, the kind of light tone to me. Yeah, like nothing ever crossed the line into being like actually offensive here, even though you do have like, I don't know, it's weird. Like a movie like this, I feel like ages up in an interesting way because I feel like back in the 80s, we probably had. a more squeaky. That's not true because there are always been movies about Crooked Cot. I feel like the public view of policing probably might be a bit more sanitized in the 80s.

Starting point is 00:08:33 And so then to have watched it now and to see like, oh yeah, you know, like the cadets like they're hired like part of it's just comedy hijinks. I get that. But also, you know, you look at the context of like they're hiring a prostitute to play a prank and they're, you know, doing other sort of illegal activities and like things like that

Starting point is 00:08:50 do make you go like, well, yeah. I mean, to some degree, these things probably do happen among the people who are supposed to enforce the law. I wonder how raunchy this is, like, compared to other 80s comedy. Like, what's the movie that's really pushing the envelope to, like, the endth degree? And people were like, oh, don't show your kids this. Or like, oh, they're just corrupting the youth by showing them Police Academy. You know, this is like, like, the early half of the 80s. And, you know, some of the stuff, obviously, is data that's kind of than John was talking about.

Starting point is 00:09:19 But other stuff would have definitely gone further had it been made. a later time period like how we're talking about the horse gag and they were definitely shown we just seen all of that now oh yeah yeah yeah we've seen a whole especially like in the early 2000s if this is like come out around then yeah yeah and some of the other jokes as well and yeah i thought i thought it was fun it was a lot of fun uh yeah and like i said the the acting everybody played their role within this sort of tone you know everybody fit very well for the kind of thing that they were going for

Starting point is 00:09:54 nobody felt out of place. Yeah. And I like seeing, I don't know the, the really big black dude's name, but he was good for like the role that he was in. You can tell that he's not

Starting point is 00:10:04 traditionally an actor, but for the context in which they allowed him to be present in this movie, I thought he did a really good job. Yeah, I like that a lot. If we do get the chance to watch these other ones,

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Starting point is 00:14:44 Yeah, because that's one of those things, too, where, like, there aren't as many, again, like, solidly tended plot threat. Like, there are times when you're a little taken aback because early on, you're like, oh, okay, so we're going to be following, you know, this guy a little bit more and this guy a little bit more. And then, you know, as the movie goes, it is like an ensemble piece, certainly. Oh, definitely. Which I do appreciate. And, you know, so you have, like, when he meets Michael Winslow in the station and they have that first encounter and then they get sort of. sent off and he's like oh can i bring him with me to the academy like you know you expect like oh well michael winslow we're going to get to know him really well and and you know like

Starting point is 00:15:22 he's among many characters who like after a while it becomes clear like ah yeah like we're kind of just going to see these people as they appear as comedic bits sort of uh oh that was bubba smith there you go yeah as comedic bits you know arise we're just kind of figure out which characters fit in those situations and we're going to work from there national football leagues Baltimore Colts, defensive tackle back in the day, Oakland Raiders, there you go, yeah. And I mean, he's, I feel like he's definitely been in other stuff too, but, but yeah, it's one of those where, you know, you're not. Oh my God, there's six of these?

Starting point is 00:15:59 I guess so. That's wild, bro. Looking out. So, yeah, and like you pointed out, like the romance doesn't, like, gradually develop so much. They basically go from a few scenes. Like, it does have a transition, but yeah, it's like they start off with him, like, low-key. harassing her a little bit and then and and opening up a moment where you're like oh god like you know is the is the upper brass going to support this or are they going to intervene on this um but yeah like their relationship you know i still bought enough you know for what it was uh i liked their chemistry a lot of this just rides on the appealing nature of the cast in general and uh and yeah you know you got the suave guy with all the ladies who then you know meets this incredibly domineering confidence like drill sergeant lady and then is a whole new guy like yeah there's just like a lot of really fun bits and stuff like that and then having them have to all go out into

Starting point is 00:16:47 the streets at the end and sort of by error being put right into a riot zone. You know, it's like things like that are funny because this mostly manages to skate by in innocuousness and not, you know, dip too far into like, oh shit, we just got real and not too far into like, oh shit, we're just mocking the struggles of society. Like it is weird because like it does in low key ways bother to be, again, they start off that whole thing about like, ah, it used to just be Johnson's. and white boys for all the far as the eye can see. And now we've got all these other people here.

Starting point is 00:17:18 And like it doesn't make a huge deal out of that post that. But it is kind of interesting that, yeah, you do have like this broad range of people who are all coming in to do this. Like you don't even really get a reason as to why they want to do it. Yeah, no, it's just sort of like, we're all here. I don't know if LeVar Jones wanted to be a police officer. He was just there. He just thrown into it. We're just yes-ending the situation.

Starting point is 00:17:42 But, you know, again, it's not like a movie like. This needs to have some kind of deeply ingrained, you know, logic to it. And for what this is, for the time that it came out, yeah, I had a great time watching this. And yeah, like, it is mostly, it's only offensive in the way, yeah, like, 80s movies can be a bit dated. You know, this reminded me of kind of the crash between, you know, it's like police stripes or it's like animal house plus cops. And in thinking about those movies, I almost feel like this is probably on the more innocuous side. because when we saw at the beginning is rated R, I was like, really?

Starting point is 00:18:15 And even throughout, I was like, yeah, they swear a little bit and there is like some incidental nudity, but I feel like you could also easily remove most of that. You know, maybe not the podium bit. And even those things, like, I don't know, that was the thing where, like,

Starting point is 00:18:28 I was expecting when Gutenberg pokes out of the podium. And for that moment, it's like, it's as if he did it. And I was like, in a different movie, I feel like, you know, your cool main character wouldn't be just like, yep, it was me.

Starting point is 00:18:42 I feel like there would be more of a gay panic about that of like, no, no, no, no. You know, and even the biker bar scene like could have gotten weird or could have gotten more like icky in some way. And like, again, the way it's shown here is like just the right amount to where it never seems to dip out of

Starting point is 00:19:00 the spirit of its own comedy, I guess. Yeah. So something else I'll say is that I thought it was interesting that the third act was literally like, I don't know, kind of remind me of like a superhero movie in the sense. And that we're like, okay, we're going to have them on the academy, doing all these stuff, like doing all these gags and hijinks.

Starting point is 00:19:17 And then the third finale, it's a whole riot. And all of our characters have to go to this location to try to stop the riot. Everyone's in it now. Everybody has a part to play. This is their chance to be heroes. Yeah. And, yeah, seeing all the characters that were on the positive side that weren't, that weren't Dix, got to have their arc or their moment to really shine.

Starting point is 00:19:38 Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, except for Taco Berry, man. He didn't get to pop any shots off. I feel bad for him. I didn't get to kill a single person. I know. And that's a guy, too. Like, and that's when an absurd movie like this is kind of doing its job

Starting point is 00:19:52 where I'm like, I love watching this character. In reality, this man should not be on the street. This man is terrible. But in Police Academy, I really like watching him. Like, yeah. And, you know, hooks finally, you know, to freeze dirtbag or whatever she says to him. Like, hell yeah. You know, and yeah, every character gets there a little bit or something like that.

Starting point is 00:20:10 And yeah, I thought a lot of the tie rounds were cute. And yeah, for like the status this movie holds, this was quite fun. This was one of those movies that, like, in some ways was exactly what I was expecting it to be. And in other little ways and flourishes isn't exactly what I expected it to be. And it's funny because I always thought of this as like a PG comedy, like a madcap, like a naked gun. Which I don't even know exactly what the rating on that is. That might be a PG. But, you know, this being an R, I feel like this is like the PGist tone of an R-rated movie.

Starting point is 00:20:42 totally sense you know perfect sense yeah i feel the exact same way yeah so like while again especially dealing with policing and and watching this you know 20 odd years or 30 odd years later uh more than that actually what 40 years later this was made in 84 it's 24 i can math you know watching this so many years later yeah it's funny this this manages not to feel too too dated but it also gains a little bit from the current time i don't know it's it's an interesting one to go back for a 40 year old movie, right? Yeah, 40-year-old. Yeah. Look at that. So, yeah, this was a lot of fun. This was a lot of fun.

Starting point is 00:21:18 And, like, yes, product of its time, but I feel like it didn't force me to be like, well, you have to understand. You know, as many times as certain other movies certainly can do. So, yeah, police academy. We made it through. We're on the force now. Any other stray thoughts before we

Starting point is 00:21:34 get out of here? No, no stray bullets. No, no stray thoughts. We did it. We watched the police academy, and hopefully you guys like this. get to watch all six plus of them that's right man a plus guys thank you for joining us do you want us to check out the rest of the police academy movies are you a police academy fan what's the best one leave it in the comments and before we got out here let's do a quickie page andrew hayes my friend look if there's anybody who i feel like could be fit right into the ensemble of this a movie it

Starting point is 00:22:07 would be you because you could be the perfect police academy character all right i know we talk about the fact that you're not the tallest dude on earth, but that is perfect for a comedy ensemble, and I know that you know a little bit about comedy, you could be the guy who everyone underestimates, but then it turns out that you have just like this hulking anger inside of you, and you're just like the toughest dude on the force. You don't even need a gun. Just the sheer power of your intensity will get people in line, get people following the rule, the letter of the law, and we appreciate you enforcing the code of the rule. Rejectation. So Andrew, stay frosty, stay law-abiding, and we'll catch you next time. Much love, buddy. Paces.

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The Reel Rejects - POLICE ACADEMY (1984) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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