Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

When a new gang moves into town it’s up to the screwball police team to stop them.

• Director: Jerry Paris
• Genre:Comedy / Crime
• Runtime:87 minutes

Cast

Steve Guttenberg: Carey Mahoney
Bubba Smith : Hightower
David Graf : Tackleberry
Michael Winslow : Larvell Jones
Bruce Mahler : Doug Fackler

After a random attack the night before by a local gang and their incompetent leader Zed (Bobcat Goldthwait), Chief Henry Hurst (George G. Robertson) arrives at the 16th precinct and notifies its captain, Pete Lassard (Howard Hesseman) that the precinct is the worst in the county. Nevertheless, Hurst gives him 30 days or else he’s closing it for good. Before he leaves, Mauser (Art Metrano) schemes his way into talking to Hurst. Hurst promises him the rank of captain should Lassard fail. Pete calls his brother Eric (George Gaynes) and asks him for six new recruits, as was promised by Hurst. Throughout the movie, Mauser as seen scheming with his dim-witted partner Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) as he attempts to taker control of the precinct.

Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow), Eugene Tackleberry (David Graf), Moses Hightower (Bubba Smith), Laverne Hooks (Marion Ramsey), and Douglas Fackler (Bruce Mahler) join the 16th precinct, and some are assigned a veteran officer partner since they’re rookies: Fackler has Dooley (Ed Herihly), Mahoney has Vinnie Schulman (Peter van Norden), and Tackleberry has Sgt. Kathleen Kirkland (Colleen Camp). At first, Tackleberry doesn’t like Kirkland very much because of the fact she’s a woman, but they later hit it off when they compare their preference of gun choices. Tackleberry later confides to Mahoney that he may have fallen in love with her. Mahoney and Schulman spot a robbery at a merchant’s place, but fail to catch the robbers as more officers arrive: they end up destroying his place Mauser is ready to suspend them, but Mahoney makes a passionate plea that convinces Lassard to give them another chance. While all this is going on, Zed and his gang rob a supermarket.

Mauser gives Mahoney a new assignment; patrolling a tunnel, covering him and his partner with soot in the process. He gets revenge on Mauser by switching his shampoo with Tackleberry’s poxyresin solution, which glues to hand to his hair. He ends up embarrassing himself in front of the station, and has to wear a wig through the remainder of the film. On his morning drive to the station the next day, Pete Lassard spots some of Zed’s men and tries to deal with them, but is eventually over-powered and spray-painted. After his rousing speech to finish what they started, the whole gang is riled up. Progress has been made and most of the gan is captured (leading to 42 arrests), but Mauser informs the captain that most of the charges were dropped. Mahoney sees that Mauser did this deliberately on purpose, so as revenge has a full body cavity search done on him (the search was supposed to go to one of the arrested gangmembers). Tackleberry goes on a date with Kirkland, where they stay up all night dancing. They profess their love for each other and have sex (but removing their concealed weapons first before clothes). Pete goes to see his brother Eric at a sushi restaurant, and Eric comes out with an idea to hold a fair. At the night of the fair though, Zed’s men trash the place. Lassard is out of a job the next day while Mauser is promoted Captain. His first act is to remove Mahoney and Schulman, who’s quick to object to Mahoney’s dismissal. Read more

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