Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy (1984) to help deal with the Mafia.

Director:

Alan Metter

Writers:

Neal Israel (characters), Pat Proft (characters)

Stars:

G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
George Gaynes	...	Commandant Lassard
Michael Winslow	...	Sgt. Jones
David Graf	...	Sgt. Tackleberry
Leslie Easterbrook	...	Capt. Callahan
G.W. Bailey	...	Capt. Harris
Christopher Lee	...	Commandant Rakov
Ron Perlman	...	Constantine Konali
Claire Forlani	...	Katrina
Charlie Schlatter	...	Cadet Connors
Richard Israel	...	Adam Sharp
Gregg Berger	...	Lt. Talinsky
Vladimir Dolinskiy	...	Bellboy (as Vladimir Dolinsky)
Pamela Guest	...	Anchor Person
Stuart Nisbet	...	Anchor Person (as Stuart Nissbet)
David St. James	...	News Director

Storyline

The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy (1984). They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantine Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing. With a sequel to the game he wants to put backdoors in all computer systems on which it gets installed, thus providing access to the police and other government systems.

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Plot Keywords:

russia | red dress | lingerie | panties | scantily clad female | 

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Taglines:

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

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for comic sensuality

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 August 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Box Office

Budget:

$6,200,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$126,247

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$126,247

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In scenes around the Russian Duma, black scorch marks occasionally appear on the building. During filming, President Boris Yeltsin was literally at war with the Communist-controlled Duma. The scorch marks are the result of tanks shelling the building.

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Goofs

(at around 1 min) In the beginning of the movie, the male reporter plays "The Game" on a GameBoy console with no power and no cartridge. All subsequent consoles shown have cartridges inserted.

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Quotes

Callahan: [the team meet with Russian forensics expert Irina Petrovskaya] Cadet Connors is also a forensics expert.
Irina Petrovskaya: Maybe you'd be so generous to share with us your expertise.
Cadet Kyle Connors: Sure.
[he sits down at desk. Irina puts a slide under the microscope]
Irina Petrovskaya: This one puzzles us. We were able to remove only one fingerprint from scene of crime. This is our only clue to identity of criminal.
Cadet Kyle Connors: Okey-dokey.
[...]

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Connections

Follows Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)

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Soundtracks

Home on the Range
(uncredited)
Music by Daniel E. Kelley
Lyrics by Brewster M. Higley
Sung by George Gaynes

User Reviews

A serious drama about mental illness

Imagine having your testicles ripped off by a Grizzly and you're half way to appreciating how painful an experience this movie is. Whatever you thought about the previous Police Academy movies (and I'm not particularly fond of any of them) they at least fitted in to the genre of comedy. This one creates it's own sub-genre: the anti-comedy. There's not a single joke in the entire film that makes any sense, and this is partly due to the fact that the script reads as though it was translated from English into Russian and then back again. And I'm not trying to insult the Russians. They get a hard enough time in the movie. If the makers of this film are to be believed, the Russian people are a humourless bunch, and so you imagine that the producers thought that a film with absolutely no humour in it would go down a storm with Moscow audiences. Now, I've never seen a Russian comedy, but I think it's safe to bet that they're better than this.

In one scene, a character batters a hole in a hotel room door using an ice bucket stuck to his head. I don't know why, and it's typical of this film that you're never quite sure what it is you're supposed to be laughing at. The jokes just rattle on and on like this making no sense whatsoever.

If you were to convince yourself that what you were actually watching was a serious drama about the mental illness of a high-ranking police officer lost in Moscow, you might get some perverse pleasure out of this. On the video packet, though, the distributors assure us that it's a comedy, so you can't even give the film the benefit of the doubt.

It's interesting to note that after the Police Academy team's adventure in Moscow, the authorities saw fit to let them back into their own country, where they went on to make Police Academy : The Series which is, believe it or not, even worse than this.

Best to watch this drunk. And with the television switched off.