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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

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George Gaynes

Michael Winslow

David Graf

Leslie Easterbrook

G.W. Bailey

Christopher Lee

Ron Perlman

Claire Forlani

Charlie Schlatter

Richard Israel

Gregg Berger

Vladimir Dolinskiy

Pamela Guest

Stuart Nisbet

David St. James

Valeriy Yaremenko

Vadim Dolgachov

Robert Iannaccone

Carolyn Kelson

Nikolai Pastukhov

Olga Anokhina

Sergei Danilevitch

Alexander Skorokhod

Sasha Maslansky

Oleg Groonevitch

Igor Semenkov

Andrei Vishnyakov

Konstantin Denakhin

Sergey Reusenko

Aleksandr Tyutin

Aleksandr Peskov

Mariya Vinogradova

Andrey Annenskiy

Zaven Martirosyan

Julius LeFlore

Pavel Sanikov

Dmitriy Chernigovskiy

Villie Golovko

Amanda LeFlore

Michael Bolotin

Vladimir Salnikov

Andrei Bolotin

Vladimir Goryushin

Platon Gorushin

Nastia Gorushina

Pavel Ostroukhov

Natalya Pozdnyakova

Yakov Dyrda

Min Dabashinskas

Willie Golovko

Sasha Volkov

Yury Sysoev

Zemskovi

Elena Vorobieva

Alexander Diamandi

Yuri Yermachenkov

Michel Clerte

Michel Lavandet

Olivier Prosper

Olivier Renard

Svetlana

Suzanne Hines

Ian Jones

Dennis M. Hill

Alan Metter

Paul Maslansky

Leonid Vereshchagin

Donald L. West

Casey J. Crabtree

Alex Hapsas

Zsolt Fehér

Kimberly L. Sewell

Sheila Wilson

Suzanne Lore

Martin Szecsanov

Mark Eggenweiler

Clancy T. Troutman

Al Gomez

Tally Paulos

John Finklea

Buda Gulyás

Sam Gemette

Randall K. Tomlin

James Bailey

Richard Rees-Jones

Eta Csabavölgyi

Beau Biggart

Artie Torgersen

James G. Williams

Alexander Egorov

Katalin Elek

Joseph D. Citarella

Erzsébet Rácz

Hedvig Wieder

Gene Grigg

Howard Brandy

David Orr

Péter Sidló

Michael Clifford

Chuck Rowley

Irina Stepanova

Nadya Kaluzina

Igor Yakovuev

Valery Barkhtin

Yuri Prilepo

Ben Kojta

Yevgeny Petrov

Joseph Takacs

Melissa Skoff

Robert Folk

Sergey Shiriaev

Thomas Olah

Thomas Hartig

Alexander Nakhimson

Frederic C. Weiler

Ilia Amoorsky

Randolph Davis

Bill Fox

Tammy Rosen

Neal Israel

Daniel Thomas

Marina Kudriavtseva

Bill Strouse

Sergey Vorobyev

Alexander Zelenkov

Doug Lacky

Michele S. Chodos

George Kuntner

Kerry Malony

Natalia Dzubenko

Steve R. Nelson

Alexander Yurchikov

Michael Virnig

Maria Yuresko

Olga Yazykova

Boris Baranovsky

Pat Proft

Potential Kermode

**See a boiled egg fly through the air from one mans mouth to another mans mouth and then back again - all in Technicolor!**

Comedy - _negligible_. Interest factor - negligible. Original cast members - negligible. Audiences watching it in the theatres in 1994 - negligible.  Box office gross - negligible. 

Farting noises - _absolutely_. Cartoon sound effects - absolutely. Disinterested/embarrassed performances - absolutely. Enthusiastic Russian actors who believe they are performing in a masterpiece - absolutely. 

After watching this movie I had forgotten how to smile. I saw somebody else laughing and I had to ask them what they were doing with their face and what the _unusual sound_ meant.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**An unnecessary film.**

Sometimes it seems producers have a hard time understanding when a movie shouldn't be made. The “Police Academy” franchise should have ended in the sixth film, and even then it would be ending up pretty worn out. This film, made several years later, was an effort that was simply needless and certainly leaves no one with good memories.

After seeing the movie, I was really sorry that the franchise ended with such a bad movie. It was something that, for me, should have been avoided. “Police Academy” was one of the most interesting and successful comic franchises of the 80s, and there are still many people who have fond memories of these films today. I myself, as a child, saw them several times on television.

The script is perfectly idiotic and a simple excuse to take some of the characters in the film to post-Soviet Russia, where they must help the local police to fight a big mobster who is turning into an oligarch (one of many that, as we know, emerged from the ashes of the communist regime, fat with shady deals in which the Russian people ended up losing). It's an unhappy, poor script made by incapable people. Humor, on the other hand, is completely absent. I don't laugh for a single minute.

The cast, which until now had been relatively stable (with the absence of several actors starting from the fourth film), had completely collapsed, and most actors refused to be part of this project. George Gaynes is back, but his character, Commander Lassard, looks simply like an old man with Alzheimer's (with all due respect to anyone suffering from this serious illness, don't get me wrong). Gaynes is not funny, and his performance here is disgraceful. Michael Winslow also tries to make some of the jokes he's already used to us, taking advantage of his vocal skills... but he doesn't have the material or time and what he does has no freshness or novelty. Sir Christopher Lee makes a brief appearance in the film, and as far as I can understand, he did so as a favor to the producer. Friendship is a beautiful thing, and also professional courtesy, but I bet Lee won't want to be remembered for this movie (and he certainly won't, he's done better things, as we know). Who ends up standing out in some way is Ron Perlman. The actor, who we know for other, much more dignified works, tried to be funny and give some dignity to his character. Meritorious, respectable, but unworthy of the actor he is. The rest of the cast is not worth mentioning.

Are there any redeeming qualities in this film? To be honest, I don't think so..., but even so, I feel obliged to make a small caveat: I liked the fact that they did a lot of the filming in the real city of Moscow and that they used real Russian extras and Russian speakers. This gives the film a certain authenticity that deserves to be highlighted, and which is most lacking nowadays, where any piece of green or blue screen replaces a real set and saves a few dollars on the production budget. However, it must have taken courage and some dose of madness to try to make a film in the midst of the political and military upheavals Russia was experiencing in those years.

<em>'Police Academy: Mission to Moscow'</em> brings this franchise - as it stands - to a close. It's not good, but it's not the worst of the series in my opinion; not that it's far off being so, more the case that I 'enjoyed' it a tiny bit more than the sixth entry.

The cast feels bare-bones, at least in terms of the original bunch of characters. Bubba Smith dropped out for this, which is a loss, so only Michael Winslow, David Graf and George Gaynes stayed to complete the run of appearing in all seven films.

It's actually away from them that you find the interesting performers, as Christopher Lee and Ron Perlman turn up. The former doesn't feature heavily, though the latter does and is alright I guess; as noted already, he is better than last time out's attempt.

On the cast, the film has a crafted sequence at the end where it gives special mention to the key performers... via horse riding, no less. Given the obvious cuts to 'hide' the stunt performers, I'm surprised they went to so much effort for a short moment like that - must've had budget left over!

I'm rather glad to have completed this franchise. Despite that and that none of these flicks scored positively, I actually didn't mind watching them. I might be being generous, but honestly they are relatively simple to watch; the filmmakers had the common sense to limit 'em to 80-90 minutes, which most certainly helps!

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George Gaynes

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Leslie Easterbrook

G.W. Bailey

Christopher Lee

Ron Perlman

Claire Forlani

Charlie Schlatter

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