SnoopyStyle
Commandant Lassard creates a new program Citizens on Patrol. Of course, Captain Harris is against the idea and works to undermine it as the temporary commander. Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) and the gang have to train the ragtag group of new citizen recruits. The newcomers include elderly Lois Feldman (Billie Bird), Laura who likes Zed, skateboarders Kyle (David Spade) and Arnie. Reporter Claire Mattson (Sharon Stone) is doing a story on the program.The franchise is tired. The old gang isn't doing anything particularly funny. The new people aren't given great material. Laura and Zed could have been good but everything else sucks. Even the return of Harris can't save this. None of this is funny.
utgard14
The police academy misfits are trying to help make Commandant Lassard's "Citizens on Patrol" neighborhood watch program work. Jealous Captain Harris does everything he can to make sure it fails. Most of the gang is here and likable as usual. Glad to see G.W. Bailey back from the first movie. Oddly, Art Metrano's sidekick from the last two sequels is still in this and is now Bailey's sidekick. I actually think it works better this way. Film debut of David Spade as a skateboarding recruit. Sharon Stone plays the requisite pretty woman Steve Guttenberg works his charms on. Love the '80s fads and clothing. The series is running on empty here but there are still some funny parts here and there. Bobcat Goldthwait gets most of the best lines. This was the last of the series to feature Bobcat or Guttenberg. The series really shouldn't have tried to continue without them.
videorama-759-859391
This was an unfunny PA if there ever was one. I watched it 24 years later, got a few more laughs, then had me wondering was it this funny? I saw it recently. Go with first impressions. I'm sorry but this number that brings Mahoney and the his crazy gang back with their original nemeses, Captain Harris. I guess that was the one good thing. I warn you, the laugh ratio in this sloppy fourth is low, laughs a scatter. It too had another asset: a younger Sharon Stone, before his Basic Instinct'ish days, that movie making her career, skyrocket. At least a couple from number 3, stayed, with really not much material to act upon. The city is a riot again, where police and community band together. This not so funny comedy, lays fault with lazy writing. As a PA fan, I wouldn't blame fans for being peeved with this one. Sharon Stone was cute in this, but like Deadly Blessing, and others, this is another pic that didn't do her justice, like it won't do for most PA fans.
jubilee77
Having first watched this among a group of teenage friends or any other films related to these series of films would have kept you laughing throughout its length and it certainly did with me but as time wears on through the length of poor reviews often given by the press, then I have to accept and say the same after having watched it alone or with a common sense family individual. In the whole, everybody there seems to be enjoying themselves in this lame slapstick that just drags on through swamp and muck since it was originally launched a couple of years back and Steve Guttenberg quit after this one. Of course, some say the series should have stopped after the second one was received with poor reviews yet it beats one in why it should have continued with silly and unfunny slapstick scenes. Just gave the whole lot of these a miss.
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