When Orwell predicted what 1984 would be like I don’t think he ever imagined the likes of the first Police Academy movie…
What can I say about this film? It was not the first time watching this film, but was the first time watching it as an adult. I forgot how films in the 80’s were still using terms like fag and homo in a derogatory way. At one point in the movie Hightower wakes up Mahoney at 2am to beg him to teach him how to drive. Mahoney responds with, “All right. Let’s go. Sleeping is for fags.” and lines from Lt. Thaddeus Harris’s two closeted, shaved head, lackeys say things like, “How’re you doing, “Ma-homo”?” after being held hostage for hours by gay, biker, leather daddies at the Blue Oyster bar. There are a few placed racists remarks in the movie, only to have Hightower defend all blacks while no other race helps out, in fact they only apologize for the way they feel out of fear. No one in the film ever thinks twice about their homophobic remarks and unfortunately there were no good, gay Bears to defend the homos in Police Academy. It was a different time in film.
The most disappointing thing to me was I remember loving Sgt. Larvell “Motor Mouth” Jones and all his fresh sound effects back when I was a kid. This time when I watched the film he only annoyed me.
I give it a 2.
-Cara
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