Kindergarten Cop

Cop John Kimble poses as a kindergarten teacher in order to apprehend a major drug lord Cullen Crisp and his accomplices. Schwarzenegger is great in the lead role, ably demonstrating that he knows how to be funny, and the plot all serves to keep things entertaining. Kindergarten Cop is one of those movies that should fail spectacularly, but somehow it works.

Kindergarten Cop was a surprisingly good film. I was not expecting it to work, and it worked so much better than I expected it to. Kindergarten Cop is a little overlong and the villains are perhaps a little too pantomime. However, the film does look lovely, and the score and soundtrack gives it its heart-warming sentiment. The script also worked. It was funny, it was poignant and it was well-meaning, while there is also a heart-warming story, good direction and pacing and the action while sometimes intense is well-handled. I was very surprised by the acting. Kindergarten Cop is not Arnold Schwarznegger's best film, but it does show that he can do comedy, and here he does do it well. He is suitably low-key and avoids being wooden as well. Penelope Ann Miller gives good support as well, and the chemistry between the two is convincing without taking over the film too much. The characters could have easily been stereotypical and unlikeable, but they aren't, instead they have a certain warmth to them, and this is including the kids. Overall, not a comedy classic, but it works far better than it should have done. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Entretenida comedia de los noventa y un Arnold S. saliendo de su zona de confort, creo que no hay nada más que añadir al respecto.

It's better than it needs to be, and manages to be sufficient in every genre it tackles.

The title really says it all here. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets silly as a tough guy cop, undercover in the classroom, who finds his young students twice as terrifying as the pimps and addicts he normally wrangles. Following closely after Twins, his first lighter role, Kindergarten Cop represents a further softening of The Governator's image and a broadening of his popular appeal. He still gets to fire big guns, wear intimidating sunglasses, toss some chumps around the room - actually, he probably does too much of that stuff - but he also reveals an unexpectedly gentle side and an effective, self-aware sense of humor. Sure, many of the laughs revolve around how the big guy speaks (anyone who was around in the far-off year of 1990 has probably barked "It's not a toomah" in a bad Austrian accent once or twice) but it never comes off as mean-spirited or in poor taste and Schwarzenegger really leans into the stereotype for maximum absurdity points. Arnold's great with the kids, too, and under the improv-friendly gaze of director Ivan Reitman, they more than hold up their end of the bargain. The best bits are where the youngsters go off-script and ramble, or climb all over the action hero like a jungle gym, or go silent and simply goggle at his reactions. Those moments give the film more staying power than its paper-thin plot really deserves. Granted, it leaves plenty of space for on-set serendipity, but it also takes forever to get started and fails to settle on an appropriate tone. Was this premise really calling for a bullet-riddled climax in the school bathroom?