#Kindergarten cop 1990 movie#
In context and for mature viewers, the scenes have a purpose and the movie works. Despite the title and the ad campaign, which make it look like a sweet and jolly fun fest, the movie contains images sure to be terrifying to grade-schoolers, such as a man setting the school on fire, small children kidnapped and terrorized, a father slapping his child, and so forth. Warning: This is not a film appropriate for smaller children. He has a way of turning situations to his advantage, and creates an entertaining relationship with his young students in this movie. The other key performances are also effective, and it was interesting to observe, while seeing the movie in a large audience, what genuine affection the public has for Schwarzenegger. In this action-comedy, unusual circumstances find big, brawny cop John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) posing as a kindergarten teacher in order to apprehend major drug lord Cullen Crisp. He's a spoiled-rotten mother's pet who has never grown up, and whose love for his son is basically narcissistic. 'Kindergarten Cop' is made up out of parts that shouldnt fit, but somehow they do, making a slick entertainment out of the improbable, the impossible, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Movies like this are often no stronger than their villains, and Tyson and Baker make a scary and effective team.
Reitman juggles the light stuff, the heartwarming scenes, the comedy and the violence with endless invention, so that the movie doesn't seem to be shifting gears even when it is. The scenes involving Schwarzenegger and the kindergarten kids are the best things in the movie, not only because the kids say the darndest things, but also because Schwarzenegger's strong point here is gentle comedy, often with himself as the foil.Ĭontrasting with the classroom stuff is a low-key little romance involving Schwarzenegger and one of the other teachers ( Penelope Ann Miller), and a parallel story involving the vicious drug dealer and his mom, and a journey to the small town for the obligatory, but quite effective, violent climax. "Kindergarten Cop" was directed by Ivan Reitman, whose best work, like " Ghostbusters," shows an ability to mix the absurd with the dramatic, so we're laughing as the suspense reaches its peak. Then Reed gets food poisoning, and it's up to Schwarzenegger to face the screaming hordes of 5-year-olds. Reed used to be a schoolteacher, and so they convince the local school authorities to let her teach the kindergarten class - hoping to pick up clues even though the little boy and his mother have changed their names. The trail leads to a storybook town in the Pacific Northwest, where Schwarzenegger and Reed believe the little boy is attending kindergarten. So is Schwarzenegger, because he dreams of nailing this creep, and also because he believes that the ex-wife may have $3 million of Tyson's drug earnings. Tyson and his mother ( Carroll Baker) are eager to discover the whereabouts of his ex-wife and their son. The movie opens with Schwarzenegger and his cop partner ( Pamela Reed) on the trail of a vicious swine of a drug dealer and mama's boy, played with smarmy conviction by Richard Tyson.
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