From the opening scenes, where is a tough LA cop, his one-liners have you slapping your thigh in adulation. Whenever he is on screen, you are just waiting for his next gem, and very rarely does he fail to deliver. It’s about Arnie at his most ostentatious and bombastic. However, this is not what the film is about. The acting is on the whole terrible (Crisp’s mother is particular bad), the music is grating, the ˜storyline’ is horribly sterile and predictable, and there are some scenes which make you wince they are so corny. As the story unfolds, Kimble then falls for the ex-wife, and the usual good guy-bad guy narrative plays out “ with some of the driest, most atrocious scripting you’ve ever heard. They say never work with animals or children, but this is Arnie (and some of the children actually out-acted him). So there he is, Arnie, the man mountain, surrounded by toddlers and pre-schoolers. She is a teacher in the local school, and with the plan of O’Hara to go undercover as the Kindergarten teacher torpedoed by illness Kimble steps in as the substitute teacher. In order to finalise the case against Crisp, Kimble and his partner Phoebe O’Hara (played actually very well with some excellent comic panache by Pamela Reed) have to travel to the sleepy town of Astoria in Oregon to find Crisp’s ex-wife. Before the obvious pastiche of True Lies and The Last Action Hero, Arnie played John Kimble, a hard line cop from Los Angeles, chasing the drug dealer Cullen Crisp (played to the highest level of stereotypical 80s ˜baddie’ by Richard Tyson). It contains some of his most quotable comedy lines in Arnie film history (I’m the party pooper, It’s not a tumour! and the finest of them all, Who is your daddy, and what does he do?), and perhaps his most idiosyncratic performance. However, Kindergarten Cop, from 1990, the height of Arnie’s powers, seems to have gone slightly ˜under the radar’ (for non-Arnie fanatics at least), probably because of it’s attempt to mix of comedy, drama and action, and therefore not really being properly aligned to any of them.ĭespite the disparate genre though, Kindergarten Cop has become a cult classic for Arnie aficionados “ any film that spawns the funniest soundboard ever created deserves a place in history. His penchant for comedy also saw him team up with his aesthetically antithetical actor, Danny DeVito in Twins, another highly memorable role. Starting with Commando, he then went on to do some of the finest action films ever put to celluloid, including The Running Man, Total Recall, Terminator 2 and True Lies. All of that could have been avoided if Kimble, who is really into being a teacher at that point, would have said something.The 10 years between 19 were probably Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finest years. Remembering the conversation (and hopefully the fact that he should have advised against it), Kimble goes and rescues Dominic who is stuck after slipping on the platform. And wouldn't you know it, that's what happens later in the movie when the young boy goes missing. When the teacher and student are looking at the tower, Kimble never even thinks to tell Dominic that maybe he shouldn't go climb a tall tower that will certainly lead to danger, injury, and possibly even death with one slip. Why Didn't Kimble Tell Dominic That It Was A Bad Idea To Climb The Tower In The First Place?Ī few days after having an impromptu dinner at a fancy restaurant, fellow teacher Joyce Palmieri (Penelope Ann Miller) invites John Kimble over to her place where the undercover cop goes on a walk with Dominic Palmieri to see the young boy's collection of toys and gadgets that he plans to use to protect him from the "bad men." One of those tools is a laser that he plans on installing on a large communications tower down the road from his mom's house.
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