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this movie is a 'police academy' rip off



and it doesnt even tries to hide it! the guy who doesnt want to be there but has to and he can't quit even thought it's voluntary because of he's father and then there's the guy who makes whale noises and *beep* plot and the jokes are also similar.

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oh STFU troll.

Sick and tired of MORONS like yourself, taking the most basic outline of a plot and then claim it's a ripoff of some other film because it's similar when you pare that film down to it's most basic outline as well.

You can take your "ripoff" and FOAD.
Or do you think that Any film with a Car chase rips off any other film that had a car chase? Only one film can EVER have a car chase by your definition of a ripoff.

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lol ? dude i think everyone with half a brain can see this is a rip off... are you gonna say that RIPD isnt a MIB rip off ?

Sorry i offended you're favorite movie, no need to get all upset

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dude i think everyone with half a brain can see this is a rip off

You're partially right.

People with only half a brain would see this as a ripoff.

And no. RIPD isn't a ripoff of MIB.

I did not realize that RIPD was secret government agents trying to stop alien criminals.
Oh wait... was it MIB that were dead guys battling demons?


Or was it simply that they were both from organizations that were hidden from the normal world doing battle with a threat the public was unaware?
I bet that's it then right?

okaaayyyy then I guess that makes True Lies a ripoff as well right? Or S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Or any other spy film with some secret agency?

Here's the thing *beep*
Just because there may be some similarities between two films does NOT automatically make one a ripoff of the other.

Apollo 13 was set in space.
WOW they must be ripping of Star Wars as that was set in space too.





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i see there's no use in talking to you.

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Well, there's certainly no use in talking to you.

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And you could say Police Academy is a ripoff of Porky's, which is simply a dirty version of American Graffiti.

Does that sound idiotic? Now you know how you sound.

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Joao, you are right. The arguments re: American Graffiti and (even more bizarrely) MIB are asinine and misleading but, as you say, if they defend DP with such guff then there is no talking to them. However, for an even more blatant rip-off of Police Academy go and watch Military Academy (aka: Combat Academy/Combat High).

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You and Joao are both wrong it isn't a rip off of Police academy at all. You are comparing basic plot points and saying just because there are similarities it's a rip off which is pure crazy on your part. Some person not wanting to be where they're at is a plot point as is some one making them do it. It's a story telling
device and nothing more. You may as well say that all movies are rip offs of all other movies/stories that ever existed. So really there is no talking to you two.

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well Hugh Wilson wrote the screenplays for both Police Academy and Down Periscope hahaha

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I don't see it. At all. Guess I have only half a brain.


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I always thought this was a rip off of the Godfather myself. Both movies featured an ensemble in a submarine, they both had fart jokes and a pirate sing along. I mean, total rip off man!

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Dirty dozen....watch it

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