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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
MEANRANK
53/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4991
- IMDb #5372
- Rotten Tomatoes #4416
- Metacritic #4518
- Letterboxd #4758
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4619
+4 more
- Metacritic Audience #3881
- Kinopoisk #1965
- AlloCiné #5058
- Trakt #4213
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 33, highest is Kinopoisk on 72. Critics average 33, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...
Details
- Director
- Jerry Paris
- Writer
- Gene Quintano
- Released
- 20 March 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $107.6M
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