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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

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Feeling that his squad is not up to snuff, a police commander comes up with an unorthodox plan to hire everyday citizens to work alongside police officers. Unruly Sgt. Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) is given the job of training the citizens. At first Mahoney does not take the job seriously, but, when he learns that his nemesis, Capt. Harris (G.W. Bailey), is gunning for his commander's job, Mahoney focuses on making the plan work -- and bringing down Harris at the same time.
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Critics Consensus

Utterly, completely, thoroughly and astonishingly unfunny, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol sends a once-innocuous franchise plummeting to agonizing new depths.

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Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune 10/22/2014
1/4
Jim Drake is credited with the direction and Gene Quintano with the script, though they'd probably appreciate it if you kept it to yourself. Go to Full Review
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times 10/22/2014
What's so amazing about the Police Academy movies is that they keep being made even though they stopped being funny after the hilarious original. Go to Full Review
Ian Freer Empire Magazine 08/03/2009
1/5
Oh dear...oh dear, oh dear... Go to Full Review
Grant Watson Fiction Machine Mar 18
3/10
I mean, on the one hand this is terrible filmmaking. On the other, if a film delivers what its core audience are craving and satisfies them, who are the rest of us to judge? Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 11/25/2023
1.5/4
It’s the same-old same-old, only somehow slightly worse. Go to Full Review
TV Guide 08/03/2009
1/4
Director Jim Drake keeps things moving so quickly, one barely has time to notice just how stale the jokes here are. Go to Full Review
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Erik B Jul 7 Memorable and funny despite being the fourth installment in the series. See more Kristian S Jun 16 Love the movie can watch police Academy all the time. It's not the best police Academy movie, but it's not the worst. See more Stephen C @bob25009 May 30 The best in the franchise in just 1 hour and 27 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $28,100,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more r96 s Mar 26 'Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol' is a lousy fourth entry to this franchise. I've not truly liked any of these flicks admittedly, but the last two did do some things well enough that I could see the potential. This one is more akin to the original, it feels aimless. I guess that is to be expected this deep into the series, hopefully it's not a sign of things to come for me across the next three releases. Any 'pluses' that I do have for this is anything I've 'praised' across the prior flicks, which is pretty much just the pleasantly returning cast. Sharon Stone and (a debuting) David Spade make for interesting newcomers. The plot isn't anything close to being fresh, it's basically the last three movies rolled into one; those ones are hardly anything memorable themselves, so that's an obvious problem. I will say that the ending here is at least visually interesting, if still not the real McCoy. Lastly, I know I keep saying it but I seriously don't know how I'm not finding Bobcat Goldthwait's Zed overtly annoying yet. Sure he is a little so, especially as he gets a needless extension of screen time on this occasion, though the character continues to bring a mini smirk or two. Beats me! See more Luke S Mar 24 Not the best of the series, yet somehow still has some charm to it. This one certainly proves that police academy can do anything it wants to. Any character from any where can be put in the academy and it can work. The skateboarding was really cool which means the movie deserves more than zero. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Feb 9 Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é ruim, a história é fraca, as piadas são fracas e desta vez forçam menos cenas do que o 3 filme, o filme parece que não se esforça para ser bom. O filme foi levemente salvo por uma cena dos aviões. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Feeling that his squad is not up to snuff, a police commander comes up with an unorthodox plan to hire everyday citizens to work alongside police officers. Unruly Sgt. Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) is given the job of training the citizens. At first Mahoney does not take the job seriously, but, when he learns that his nemesis, Capt. Harris (G.W. Bailey), is gunning for his commander's job, Mahoney focuses on making the plan work -- and bringing down Harris at the same time.
Director
Jim Drake
Producer
Paul Maslansky
Screenwriter
Gene Quintano
Production Co
Warner Bros.
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA)
$28.1M
Runtime
1h 27m
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