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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege<\/strong> (1989)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, comic violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Peter Bonerz\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Stephen J. Curwick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Robert Folk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Charles Rosher Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 10, 1989 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Bruce Mahler, Matt McCoy, G.W. Bailey, Lance Kinsey, George Gaynes, George R. Robertson, Gerrit Graham, Brian Seeman, Darwyn Swalve, Kenneth Mars, Billie Bird, Arthur Batanides, Beans Morocco, Alan Hunter, Mark Jay Goodman, Melle Mel (as Melvin Glover), Allison Mack.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $11.5 million (US)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0And the series continues its decline with Police Academy 6: City Under Siege<\/strong>, a boring and unfunny piece that has Cmndt. Lassard (Gaynes) and his pals attempting to stop a crime wave that\u2019s been plaguing one area of the city. As usual, I saw it opening night, this time with my brother and a friend (Dad skipped this one, a wise decision). We all agreed that they should have quit while they were a little bit ahead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0At this point, everybody in the cast looks like they\u2019ve had enough of this foolishness. It\u2019s clear that they\u2019re all bored and probably only agreed to do a sixth movie to fulfill their contracts. That\u2019s just one theory. I have one of my own. Producer Paul Maslansky employed the services of SNL hypnotist The Amazing Alexander (\u201cI laughed. I cried. It was better than Cats. I want to see it again and again.\u201d) to work his magic on the actors. That would explain the dazed expressions on some of their faces. Either way, Police Academy 6<\/strong> is a bad movie.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Director Peter Bonerz (The Bob Newhart Show) is so desperate for laughs that he even has human sound effects machine Winslow perform a few minutes of his stand-up routine in one scene. When the director has to resort to that, you know the movie is in serious trouble. Even the return of accident prone Sgt. Fackler (Mahler) doesn\u2019t help. He seems more bored by than oblivious of the path of destruction he leaves in his wake.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0In this installment, the Mayor (Mars, The Producers) and Commissioner Hurst (Robertson) call in Lassard and his team after Captain Harris (Bailey) and flunky Lt. Proctor (Kinsey) botch up a stakeout in a big way. Harris doesn\u2019t like this one bit because he finally managed to get transferred out of the academy and away from Lassard and his men (and women)- Hightower (Smith), Tackleberry (Graf), Jones (Winslow), Hooks (Ramsey), Callahan (Easterbrook) and Nick Lassard (McCoy) who presumably transferred from Miami. There\u2019s a guy in serious need to career advice. Why leave a nice place like Miami for a crime-ridden place like \u2026.. oh, who knows?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0What\u2019s happening is a trio of inept crooks- leader Ace (Graham, Used Cars), agile Flash (Seeman) and hulking Ox (Swalve, Heartbreak Ridge)- are robbing various establishments in this one part of town and nobody can get a line on them. It turns out that they\u2019re just hired help, working for an anonymous criminal mastermind who keeps his identity concealed. It seems like this guy is always one step ahead of the police and it\u2019s deduced that somebody closely involved with the investigation is leaking information to the unknown person. What\u2019s it all about? What\u2019s the end game? I\u2019ll tell you. It\u2019s a huge real estate scam that has to do with a new rail line about to undergo construction. Who\u2019s the mastermind? That I won\u2019t tell you, but you can figure it out by process of elimination.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Bonerz gets so desperate that he even utilizes a Mission Impossible trick when the cops finally unmask (literally) the perpetrator. I half-expected this person to say that he would have gotten away with it if it hadn\u2019t been for these meddling cops. As for its comedic value, I didn\u2019t laugh, I didn\u2019t cry, but I did chuckle once, when Jones does sort of a Terminator imitation during a fight with one of the crooks using scrap metal from a junkyard.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Police Academy 6<\/strong> ends with a city-wide blackout in which the cops have to stop citizens from looting and rioting while trying to catch the bad guys. As usual, Harris comes out looking like an ass.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I realize that the Police Academy flicks are all essentially the same movie, but there are usually a few laughs (empty though they may be) to be had. Usually. That\u2019s not the case with Police Academy 6<\/strong> which is so utterly lifeless that even the pranks played on Harris (one involving a dye pack at a bank) fail to elicit laughs. McCoy seems like he\u2019s trying to fill Guttenberg\u2019s shoes, but he doesn\u2019t quite cut it. I usually like Graham, but he also does nothing for the movie. And was Mars that desperate for work that he agreed to play such a dumb character? His performance is just embarrassing. It\u2019s like Bonerz is begging audiences to laugh at Police Academy 6<\/strong> despite the fact it comes up short in pretty much every area. The scene where Harris and Proctor go undercover as skyscraper window-washers ends exactly as you\u2019d expect, with one of them hanging upside down from the scaffold and the other with his pants down. This movie is a clear case of arrested development.<\/p>\r\n Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, comic violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Peter Bonerz\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Stephen J. Curwick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Robert Folk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Charles Rosher Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 10, 1989 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Bruce Mahler, Matt McCoy, G.W. 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