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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment poster
Directed by
Jerry Paris
Genre
comedy film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 1,743 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The misfit cadets from the first film graduate and are assigned to a troubled precinct. Captain Lassard asks them to clean up a crime-ridden neighborhood that is being terrorized by a rowdy gang.

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What happens

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Jerry Paris. It is the second installment in the Police Academy franchise and the sequel to Police Academy. Many actors who were in the first film return to reprise their roles. Steve Guttenberg, as Officer Carey Mahoney, the class clown; former American football player Bubba Smith returns as the colossal Moses Hightower; Marion Ramsey is featured again as the soft-spoken Laverne Hooks; David Graf returns as gun-crazy Officer Eugene Tackleberry; Michael Winslow returns as sound effects master Officer Larvell Jones and veteran actor George Gaynes returns as Commandant Eric Lassard. This is the only film in the franchise in which Leslie Easterbrook did not appear as Callahan. New faces in Police Academy 2 include Howard Hesseman as Captain Pete Lassard (the brother of Police Academy commandant Eric Lassard); Bobcat Goldthwait as Zed McGlunk, the leader of "The Scullions", an obnoxious gang; Art Metrano as Lt. Ernie Mauser; Peter Van Norden as slobbish police dog Officer Vinnie Schtulman; Tim Kazurinsky as hapless business owner Carl Sweetchuck; and Lance Kinsey as Sgt. Carl Proctor. In the film, the Police Academy cadets have graduated and are assigned to the worst precinct in town, where they have to help Captain Pete Lassard fight Zed's gang. The film was followed by Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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