Police Academy 5: Miami Beach

Police Academy 5: Miami Beach
Warner Bros.
March 18, 1988
Crime Comedy
DVD
D+

This is the earliest of three PA movies packaged with Loaded Weapon on a "cop comedy" collection, so, yes, we're still in the Co's.  It's a series I've been aware of since the time but I don't think I've ever seen more than a few minutes total before this entry, apparently the first without Steve Guttenberg.  I found it surprisingly flat and even the recognizable faces (including a non-Cajun post-M*A*S*H G.W. Bailey and a non-sexpot post-Laverne-and-Shirley Leslie Easterbrook) couldn't capture my interest.  I do like that the cast is biracial though.

I'm crediting Gene Quintano, since he co-created these characters, and yes, he was also responsible for Loaded Weapon.  Alan Myerson directed.

Loaded Weapon 1

Loaded Weapon 1
New Line Cinema
February 5, 1993
Parody, Crime Comedy
DVD
C-

This isn't bad for what it is, sort of a low-rent (but still celebrity-filled) entry in the Naked Gun genre, but I didn't laugh once in fifteen minutes.  Gene Quintano directed and co-wrote.