The old Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), goes to Florida to receive an award. In the city arrives also the cynic Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. Harris wants to place himself in a favourable light in front of the high military hierarchy but, at the airport, Lassard exchanges his bag with another one. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach is a much better sequel than it gets credit for sure it's ridiculous i mean Tackleberry scares of a great white shark with only just his gun and Hightower goes against a crocodile but it's a 80's Crime Comedy Franchise about some of the dumbest but yet most lovable cops that have ever hit the big screen. The laughs are still in there with Harris getting in trouble every step of the way, House scares and crashes everyone in his path and Tackleberry once again goes full Rambo mode. This movies and this sequel in general knows what it is it's not meant to be taken seriously but it also has more class than those pathetic films that dare to call themselves "comedies" this days. It's fun, it's action packed and the Cast seems to have a great time and overall i'm definitely giving this an A+

Amusing golf ball slippage indeed. I split my pant laughing. Funny noise man- I shat myself. Tall man - I burst my kidney. Quiet woman who shouts at the end - I leaked urine with laughter. Gun man who likes guns - I burst my colon and shat myself: so amusing.This was was notable for the silly men slipping on golf balls and for Captain Harris' trouser falling down in the airport.I am laughing still. Laughing, soiling, leaking urine and reminiscing about this pant splitter of a movie. I love it.I shall recommend it to all of you as one big mother of a pant splitter. You will laugh, cry, soil, split and above all leak at this movie.

It's a tiresome continuation of the same depressingly futile, execrable material that plagued the series from #3. A hopeless pantomime consisting of extended camp chases, the Captain being coated in various effluvia, oafs falling over and so forth. The PG certificate squeezes out the raunchy spirit which enlivened the original.The Alzheimer-ish buffoon Commandant Lassard is propelled to the fore with no effect upon the quality, which would be laudable if there was any. Guttenberg's libidinous, puerile cretin character, Mahoney, is missing yet unmissed. The rest of the shamelessly worthless crew are back exhibiting timing which would embarrass a wristwatch from the Poundshop.

Police Academy 5 (1988) * 1/2 (out of 4) Cmndt. Lassard (George Gaynes) is forced into retirement but he does get a trip to Miami Beach and of course his gang goes along. Lassard picks up the wrong luggage at the airport and soon jewel thieves are after him. The series was going downhill pretty fast here and with the absence of Steve Guttenberg there's really not too much anyone can do. Not to mention that the look and feel of this has TV movie written all over it. The biggest problem is that the jokes just aren't here. The screenplay is full of childish moments but none of them gets laughs and I might go even further and say the film is lazy by recycling more jokes from previous films. The best sequence is when Harris (G.W. Bailey) falls into the water and gives a loud scream when an alligator starts to come after him. Smith, Graf, Winslow and Easterbrook are all back but there's no lead here strong enough to carry the picture and none of these actors can do it on their own. I'm sure fans of the film, including myself, will get a few grins out of the movie and the cast members do have a certain amount of charm but this should have been it for the series.