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Police Academy: Assignment Hell

Recall, if you will, how difficult it was to sit through a Police Academy movie in theaters.

Now imagine sitting through all seven of them in a row at home.

Yet this test of he-man resilience is exactly what Louis Fowler and I subjected ourselves to on a sunny Saturday in spring. The idea was simple: Would we be able to watch all 612 minutes — that’s 10.2 hours — of painfully simple slapstick and belabored set pieces? And could we do it without cracking? And just how much Steve Guttenberg can one man take?

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