#KINDERGARTEN COP 1990 MOVIE#

In a different Arnie movie, this could all take a more violent turn. Much to the chagrin of the one who badly wanted the job, but didn’t get it. In a fire alarm situation, one member of the class has to take personal responsibility for the ferret. The best behaved children even get to hold Arnold’s ferret. Within ten minutes of what has become known on the teaching syllabus as “the whistle and ferret method,” an unruly classroom is tamed.

#KINDERGARTEN COP 1990 MOVIE#

This invincible ferret, and this is not a well known fact, would go on to influence Arnie’s performance in the film Eraser ( Eraser being the movie where Arnie takes lots of damage – including a grenade wrapped in nails at one stage – and brushes it all off).

Furthermore, the ferret appears to be shot later in the film, yet survives. The ferret, we learn, goes with him everywhere, and thus we must assume that the critter managed to get through airport security for a start.

Rather than spending his evenings deep in books trying to learn more, or consulting his partner, O’Hara, who does have experience, he comes up with a plan that revolutionises the teaching profession. Predictably, John Kimble’s first days in the classroom do not go well. Teacher training is unnecessary when you have a ferret and whistleįor all the japes of Kindergarten Cop – a film that, of course, sees Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Detective Kimble going undercover in a classroom – there must have been an army of trainee teachers watching in apparent despair. But it didn’t strike me until my latest rewatch that it teaches some pertinent lessons, from which we can all benefit. Kindergarten Cop was and is a hoot, and I shamelessly like it. Then you have to try and make some sense out of it.Īctually, who am I kidding? You don’t at all. It’s Arnie! Teaching little kids! His toughest battle ever! Haw haw! Then the film goes all harsh again, then the credits role, and the cutesy font returns. Once it’s over its generic, entertaining Arnie movie opening, Kindergarten Cop settles into the film that everyone was sold (right from the moment the 1990 equivalent of the Comic Sans font appears in the credits). Not to worry though: Batman Returnswas but two years away if they really wanted to put fear into their offspring. Encouraged by the family-friendly poster, parents at the time must have wondered what they’d walked into. He holds a big gun and declares, after destroying a serene get-together, that he is “da party pooper,” in one particularly memorable early moment. It opens with a solid 20 minute Arnie film, where he’s tracking down a drugs baron and sporting facial hair. What I learned from rewatching Kindergarten Cop, though, is just what a harsh piece of work it is. This in a way was surprising, as on paper at least, Kindergarten Cop had a great potential for a broader family audience. Kindergarten Cop, meanwhile, had to settle for $201 million. Twins took $216 million worldwide in 1988 (inflation adjusted, that’s about six trillion dollars or something). Now Kindergarten Cop wasn’t quite the box office triumph that Twins was, but it wasn’t far off.

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