Kindergarten Cop
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / spy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
Our read · Kindergarten Cop (1990) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · spy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Kindergarten Cop
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Arnold versus five-year-olds with surprisingly sweet heart under the slapstick.”
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The reading.
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