Recruits

1986
R
1h 30m

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A Canadian sex comedy in the tradition of "Police Academy".A Canadian sex comedy in the tradition of "Police Academy".A Canadian sex comedy in the tradition of "Police Academy".

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4.2/10

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Trivia
Over 20 minutes were cut for time.

Goofs
When the gang members chase after Clint in the diner, the actors almost stop running when they reach the back exit.

Quotes
Howie: [introducing himself] Howie Gluckstein; break and enter, gross indecency, attempted murder, sexual assault with intent to rape... Do you think they'll keep me in jail for this?

Alternate versions
The Scandinavian release contains material that was cut from the US release: 1. After Steve bumps into Susan at the showers and is rebuffed by her, he says to himself "I wish they'd stop doing that" and has a moment of introspection. You can hear the music starting to change and then abruptly stop as the scene is cut short. 2. After Sergeant Stonewall tells the new recruits to get some sleep on their first day, Clint says: "Sarge, I don't sleep". Stonewall asks him: "But do you shit, Clint?" to which he replies "Every chance I get". Sarge then tells him to eat shit. 3. After the new recruits have been fired and the mayor blamed for the assassination attempt on the governor, Stonewall stumbles upon some discarded barrels of spoiled lobsters at the marina and decides to take them and serve them up at MacGruder's party. As the party goers start to get sick, MacGruder asks him where he got the lobsters from and he admits to it.

Connections
Featured in I Am Thor (2015)

Soundtracks
Girls on top
Performed by Terrea Smith (as Terrea Oster)

A low-brow Police Academy ripoff...if such a thing is possible!

The dreaded 'Police Academy' series was considered by many a snobbish movie buff to be the ultimate in low-brow, tasteless humor. Imagine how those film-snobs must feel seeing something like 'Recruits' - an even more tasteless take on the same premise.

I, for one, love it! Never had a problem with (most of) the 'Police Academy' movies, and this makes me laugh even harder because the humor is even more juvenile and gross. There's something about a movie that just doesn't even try to show a little restraint that tends to crack me up in a 'I can't believe they did this' kind of way. Another good example of this is 'Hamburger: The Motion Picture".

The jokes are brazenly funny, the acting isn't very good - even by a young Lolita Davidovich (who was still going by Lolita David at the time) but it works, there are generous amounts of gratuitous t&a, and the bad guy's right hand man is so over the top I can't stop laughing anytime he's on. He barks everything he says to the recruits and shouts one specific word for greater effect (e.g. "There will be no WOMEN in your ROOMS!!!"). It's hard to describe how funny it is in the movie, you just have to hear it.

Anyway, 'Recruits' is great - I first fell in love with it when I rented it back in 1986 (if I remember correctly, the store just got it in and I was the first one to rent it) and I now own my own VHS copy which I watch every couple of years and laugh all over again. We need a DVD!