10/31/2023 0 Comments Kindergarten cop 2 reveiwThe entire arc of the character, from tough-guy cop to kind-hearted Kindergarten teacher, is complete mush, but it’s still effective. There are the early failures to rein in so many children, predictable moments of potty humour, and more than a few calculated moments meant to tug at your heart strings. The middle section of the film mostly consists of Schwarzenegger’s cop learning to become a real Kindergarten teacher and bonding with the children in his class. But soon enough, he’s forced into pretending to be a Kindergarten teacher and we start to see the softer side of the character. But the film starts with Schwarzenegger breaking bad guys’ faces and casually carrying a shotgun under his trenchcoat. Not literally, this time, even if his outfit in the opening scene intentionally resembles that of his character in The Terminator. Unlike Twins, which makes Schwarzenegger a sincere, goofy dolt from the get go, Kindergarten Cop starts with Schwarzenegger as we think of him: a hulking, bruising killing machine. Kindergarten Cop finds Schwarzenegger’s tough-guy, loose cannon cop going undercover as a Kindergarten teacher in order to bust a baddie. ![]() It’s not the first attempt to do so, but it is likely the best. The 1990 family film directed by Ivan Reitman, who had previously worked with Schwarzenegger in the 1988 blockbuster, Twins, and who would go on to direct him in Junior, is a naked attempt to make comedy out of subverting Schwarzenegger’s reputation as the undisputed macho man of Hollywood. But none of these macho movie stars of the past 30 years have been as successful in wedding their action chops with saccharine family fare as Arnold Schwarzenegger. ![]() Most macho action stars go through a phase where they star in family-friendly entertainment in a bid to become a four-quadrant box office star.
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