Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

Director:

Alan Metter

Writers (WGA):

Neal Israel (characters) &
Pat Proft (characters) ...

Release Date:

26 August 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!

Plot:

The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy to help deal with the Mafia.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Mafia | Sergeant | Police Academy | Captain

Cast

George Gaynes	...	Cmndt. Eric Lassard
Michael Winslow	...	Sgt. Larvelle Jones
David Graf	...	Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Capt. Debbie Callahan
G.W. Bailey	...	Captain Harris
Christopher Lee	...	Cmndt. Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov
Ron Perlman	...	Konstantine Konali
Claire Forlani	...	Katrina
Charlie Schlatter	...	Cadet Kyle Connors
Richard Israel	...	Adam Sharp
Gregg Berger	...	Lt. Talinsky
Vladimir Dolinsky	...	Bellboy
Pamela Guest	...	Anchorwoman
Stuart Nisbet	...	Anchorman (as Stuart Nissbet)
David St. James	...	News director

Also Known As:

Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (USA) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for comic sensuality.

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Finland:K-7 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:6 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

During the scenes around the Russian Duma - the White House, it appears with black scorch marks on at times. This was because during filming the then Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, was, literally, at war with the Communist-controlled Duma, and the scorch marks are the result of tanks shelling the building.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Russian flag on the wall of Aleksander Rakov's office is upside down.

Quotes:

Captain Thaddeus Harris: Not exactly a four star hotel, is it?
Lieutenant Talinsky: Well, we spend our police budget on fighting criminals, not on pampering out of town visitors.
Captain Thaddeus Harris: It was your government that brought us here!
Lieutenant Talinsky: They also bring in monkeys for zoo, but we don't put them in four star hotel either!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Top Gear: (2007-11-18)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Am I Blue?

Zero out of Five

This time the remaining recruits (Gaynes,Winslow,Bailey,Easterbrook and Graf) are back this time to help Russia fight off a computer programmer/mobster who plans on ruling the world with a strange video game in what is unquestionably one of cinema's worst movies ever. Yes it's that awful. I don't give many movie Zero stars, because I like giving at least a full star rating, but this sequel is just so awful one cannot even believe their eyes when watching this worthless tripe. Is there one laugh to be found in the entire movie? Well, yes there was one scene that had me laughing, it's how the news reporter is supposed to be hooked on "The Game" but there is actually no video game inside the unit. Aside from that this is so awful that it doesn't even deserved to be mentioned in the same sentence as comedy, indeed it doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence of Police Academy 5! The only positive spin I can perhaps put on Mission To Moscow is that it most likely killed the series, and even if it didn't, there's no possible way a sequel could be worse than this.

0/5 Matt Bronson