Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

With crime running rampant in his precinct, Captain Pete Lassard calls up some freshly graduated recruits from the Police Academy. Will these rambunctious rookies be able to clean up the streets or have they been set up to fail? Police Academy 2 brings back most of the cast from the first film. Notable absences include Leslie Easterbrook's Sergeant Callahan and G.W. Bailey's Lieutenant Harris. Notable additions include Colleen Camp as Tackleberry's love interest Corporal Kirkland, Art Metrano as the new antagonist Lieutenant Mauser, Lance Kinsey as Mauser's lackey Proctor, Tim Kazurinsky as a local merchant named Sweetchuck and Bobcat Goldthwait as Zed, the leader of the Scullions. The gags are a little bigger in Police Academy 2, more in line with a movie like Airplane! And most of the raunchiness from the first film has been toned down as well.

Rating: 67%

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Fun Fact: Commandant Lassard's brother, Captain Pete Lassard, was played by WKRP's Howard Hesseman.

City of Death

The Doctor and Romana are having a lovely time in Paris when a time slip alerts them to a dangerous plot about to unfold. An alien, masquerading as an aristocrat, has been stealing and selling rare historical artifacts in order to fund his experiments in time travel. And he's about to go for his biggest score yet, the Mona Lisa. City of Death might be Douglas Adams' most beloved contribution to Doctor Who. While he wasn't the sole writer on the serial, his fingerprints are all over it. It's filled with clever ideas and witty dialogue. It's well cast too, with Julian Glover playing the aristocrat/alien and Tom Chadbon playing Duggan, the Inspector who never met a problem he couldn't solve with violence.

Rating: Well, you're a beautiful woman, probably%

Cyborg

A cyborg, carrying vital information, attempts to travel from New York to Atlanta. The cyborg tries to secure the protective services of a slinger named Gibson, but is quickly abducted by a violent gang. Gibson follows the gang to Atlanta, not to protect the cyborg but to get revenge on the gang's leader. Cyborg was cobbled together by Cannon in an effort to recoup some of their losses after a Masters of the Universe sequel and their live-action Spider-Man movie fell through. The special effects and costumes are charmingly cheap. The locations are great and do a lot to elevate the film. The film's acting and script, however, leave a bit to be desired. Also, spoiler alert/reminder to those who haven't seen the movie in a long time: JCVD does not play the titular cyborg.

Rating: 61%

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The Peanut Butter Solution

aka Opération beurre de pinottes

While exploring a burned out building, Michael sees something so terrifying that all of his hair falls out. After a few days, his hair shows no signs of returning. In desperation, Michael tries a hair growth formula given to him by a pair of ghosts. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Michael's hair returns but, because he mixed the formula incorrectly, it won't stop growing. He gets kicked out of school for being a distraction and eventually gets kidnapped by a former teacher, who uses Michael's hair to make magic paint brushes. The Peanut Butter Solution might be the most infamous Canadian children's film ever made. It lives on in the minds of Canadian forty-somethings as a half-remembered fever dream. Many people who saw this movie as a child aren't completely sure whether or not the film was real or if they're actually just struggling to unpack a strange repressed memory.

Rating: 63%

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