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 | Sequel | Nutty Cop | Cadet | 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	...	Capt. Thaddeus 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)
Academia de Polícia: Missão em Moscovo (Portugal) [pt]
Loca academia de policía: misión en Moscú (Spain) [es]
Police Academy - Mission à Moscou (France) [fr]
Police Academy 7 - Mission in Moskau (Germany) [de]
Poliisiopisto - Moskovan keikka (Finland) [fi]
Polisskolan: Uppdrag i Moskva (Sweden) [sv]
Scuola di polizia - missione a Mosca (Italy) [it]

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Finland:K-7 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:6 | Iceland:L | Germany: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:

The hand-held video game units used to play The Game are Nintendo GameBoys.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When one of the Russian cops swings on the chandelier to avoid the floor laser grid, hands can clearly be seen holding his legs.

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:

Follows Police Academy (1984)

Soundtrack:

Am I Blue?

Awful

The original Police Academy movie was the best comedy film ever in my opinion. Ten years after it's release we got to see the quite awful Police Academy 7.

It ruins the spirit of a film series when later installments fail to match up to the original. The Police Academy films were brilliant with the exception of Part 4 but even Part 4 was better than this.

For starters, it was too serious. The first six Police Academy films had our heroes battling bumbling foes such as street punks and bumbling diamond thieves. But in this movie the heroes battled the Russian mafia. It didn't seem right.

There were very few laughs in this movie, in fact there were none really. Maybe it would have been better if there had been more laughs and a less serious storyline. Being serious didn't do this film any justice.

I felt real disappointed when I first watched this in 1994 because it got me thinking about how I had sat in a cinema ten years earlier enjoying a really funny movie.