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Few comedy franchises epitomize politically incorrect entertainment like Police Academy did in the ‘80s. What began as an R-rated mashup of the decade's basic training-centric movies Stripes and An Officer and a Gentleman became the biggest surprise hit of 1984. It made an unlikely star out of Steve Guttenberg as the charismatic straight man Cadet Carey Mahoney.
The Real World Vision For Key And Peele's 'Police Academy' For five seasons, the sketch comedy series Key & Peelemastered the art of satirizing race relations in the United States. Maslansky saw talent in the comedy duo when they were brought on to produce a new Police Academy installment in 2014.
Key And Peele's Career Crossroads Derailed The 'Police Academy' Reboot In the spring of 2016, Key and Peele headlined New Line’s John Wick-inspired Keanu, playing a pair of cousins trying to rescue their cat from a street gang. Despite positive reviews, Keanu was not the breakout commercial hit that New Line had hoped for.
'Police Academy' Is Too Divisive To Make Today Close Aside from Key and Peele’s career priorities changing, the present climate of American culture makes Police Academy too risky to produce 40 years after the original movie hit cinemas. Between the running Blue Oyster Bar gag, racially-insensitive characters, and the era's sex romp tropes, the low-brow humor of the series has become long outdated to be embraced for nostalgia.
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