**See a boiled egg fly through the air from one mans mouth to another mans mouth and then back again - all in Technicolor!** Comedy - _negligible_. Interest factor - negligible. Original cast members - negligible. Audiences watching it in the theatres in 1994 - negligible. Box office gross - negligible. Farting noises - _absolutely_. Cartoon sound effects - absolutely. Disinterested/embarrassed performances - absolutely. Enthusiastic Russian actors who believe they are performing in a masterpiece - absolutely. After watching this movie I had forgotten how to smile. I saw somebody else laughing and I had to ask them what they were doing with their face and what the _unusual sound_ meant.

**An unnecessary film.** Sometimes it seems producers have a hard time understanding when a movie shouldn't be made. The “Police Academy” franchise should have ended in the sixth film, and even then it would be ending up pretty worn out. This film, made several years later, was an effort that was simply needless and certainly leaves no one with good memories. After seeing the movie, I was really sorry that the franchise ended with such a bad movie. It was something that, for me, should have been avoided. “Police Academy” was one of the most interesting and successful comic franchises of the 80s, and there are still many people who have fond memories of these films today. I myself, as a child, saw them several times on television. The script is perfectly idiotic and a simple excuse to take some of the characters in the film to post-Soviet Russia, where they must help the local police to fight a big mobster who is turning into an oligarch (one of many that, as we know, emerged from the ashes of the communist regime, fat with shady deals in which the Russian people ended up losing). It's an unhappy, poor script made by incapable people. Humor, on the other hand, is completely absent. I don't laugh for a single minute. The cast, which until now had been relatively stable (with the absence of several actors starting from the fourth film), had completely collapsed, and most actor…

<em>'Police Academy: Mission to Moscow'</em> brings this franchise - as it stands - to a close. It's not good, but it's not the worst of the series in my opinion; not that it's far off being so, more the case that I 'enjoyed' it a tiny bit more than the sixth entry. The cast feels bare-bones, at least in terms of the original bunch of characters. Bubba Smith dropped out for this, which is a loss, so only Michael Winslow, David Graf and George Gaynes stayed to complete the run of appearing in all seven films. It's actually away from them that you find the interesting performers, as Christopher Lee and Ron Perlman turn up. The former doesn't feature heavily, though the latter does and is alright I guess; as noted already, he is better than last time out's attempt. On the cast, the film has a crafted sequence at the end where it gives special mention to the key performers... via horse riding, no less. Given the obvious cuts to 'hide' the stunt performers, I'm surprised they went to so much effort for a short moment like that - must've had budget left over! I'm rather glad to have completed this franchise. Despite that and that none of these flicks scored positively, I actually didn't mind watching them. I might be being generous, but honestly they are relatively simple to watch; the filmmakers had the common sense to limit 'em to 80-90 minutes, which most certainly helps!

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