Kindergarten Cop - 1990 Review

This one is not an awful film.  Parts of it are pretty funny.

Note that it is rated PG-13  and that's definitely what the film is.  The problem was that this film was marketed as a light and breezy family Christmas time movie that you could take your whole family too.   The commercials and trailer didn't show a couple of the more terrifying scenes where a drug dealer threatens to shoot a child' in front of his family and school children.

It was irresponsibly marketed when it was first released and like several other parents I took my very young child to see this one.    I was really made by the time I left the theater, my child was so scared and freaked out she was crying.  WOW.

Now it is rated PG-13 and usually that's a big warning to parents to be careful--but usually you get a sense from the previews what to expect from a film too.    I thought some foul language was probably the reason.

The movie's plot:  Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Kimble a very dedicated cop who goes undercover as a Kindergarten school teacher in a quiet Northwestern community.  You see he's after a dangerous drug dealer who has an estranged wife and 6 year old son.   Arnold thinks the bad guy will be showing up to try and evade arrest and reconnect to his family.

It is funny to see Arnold being over-whelmed by a class of kindergarten students.  It's got a litlle romance, some humor,  cute kids... and then unfortunately before it's over it's got some very intense violent scenes that will hit home too  hard at the under 10 crowd.

Kindergarten Cop  1990  Directed by Ivan Reitman