Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a 1985 comedy film directed by Jerry Paris. It is the first of six sequels in the Police Academy series. The film was given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA.
Many actors return from the first film to respectively reprise their roles. Steve Guttenberg reprises his role as Mahoney, the class clown; former American football player Bubba Smith returns as the high-towering Hightower; Marion Ramsey is featured again as Laverne Hooks; David Graf returns as gun-crazy Officer Eugene Tackleberry; Michael Winslow returns as sound effects wizard Officer Larvell Jones, and veteran actor George Gaynes returns as Commandant Eric Lassard.
New faces in Police Academy 2 include WKRP in Cincinnati alumnus Howard Hesseman as Captain Pete Lassard (the brother of police academy commandant Eric Lassard), Bobcat Goldthwait as Zed, the leader of an obnoxious gang, Art Metrano as Lt. Mauser, Peter Van Norden as slobbish K-9 sergeant Vinnie, as well as Julie Brown (if only in a very minor role). In the film, the Police Academy cadets have graduated and are assigned to the worst precinct in town, where they have to help Captain Pete Lassard fight Zed's gang.
Plot
Carey Mahoney and his friends Larvell Jones, Eugene Tackleberry, Moses Hightower, Laverne Hooks, and Douglas Fackler have now graduated from the police academy, and are ready to start going after real criminals. Their assigned precinct, which has the city's highest crime rate, is under the command of Captain Pete Lassard, the younger brother of academy commandant Eric Lassard. Chief Henry Hurst has told Pete that if the precinct's crime rate is not lowered, then Pete will no longer be captain. A big step toward lowering the crime rate would be to stop a local gang of toughs and their leader, Zed. The assignment goes to Mahoney and his fellow graduates. Mauser, a lieutenant at the precinct, doesn't want to see them succeed, because Mauser wants to replace Pete as captain. That's why Mauser begins to roadblock any efforts against Zed. Not to be outmaneuvered, Mahoney and his friends plot an appropriate revenge on Mauser while they go after Zed.
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Reaction
The film was the 11th highest grossing film in the US in 1985 with a total of $55,600,000 over 1,613 theaters. There was high competition in 1985 in US theatres from films such as Back to the Future, Rocky IV, Rambo: First Blood Part II and The Goonies. In the US rentals alone it grossed $27,200,000 after its release on VHS.
The film was also successful in Europe, it took in SEK 18,063,063 in Sweden alone which amounts to $2,693,005.
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