Kindergarten Cop
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
No party poopers here, all three of us were big fans of Kindergarten Cop as kids. But a lot of parents? Not so much. All of the drugs, murder, and mayhem left many of them scratching their heads.
Schwarzenegger felt the PG-13 rating hurt them at the box office, but director Ivan Reitman was adamant that the film didn't work without some of the more mature elements. Three decades later, we decided to find out which one of them we agree with or if this is even really an issue at all.
Topics include: the star witness who doesn't actually witness anything, this film's connection to Silent Hill, some pretty unusual alternate choices for the role of John Kimball, why Arnold almost dropped out of the production, the confusing morality of the final showdown, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember kindergarten cop? |
| 0:06.5 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.7 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.3 | And today we're revisiting Kindergarten Cop. |
| 0:53.1 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting kindergarten cop. At a certain point, nearly every mega successful movie Tough Guy wants to have some fun with their image and dip their toes in comedy. |
| 1:00.1 | The results are understandably mixed. Sometimes you get meet the parents. Sometimes you wind up with stop or my mom will shoot. |
| 1:07.5 | But Arnold Schwarzenegger has a better track record than a lot of his contemporaries when |
| 1:11.0 | it comes to this sort of thing. Part of it is his willingness to be the butt of a joke and the fact |
| 1:15.5 | that he's always been able to laugh at himself. But the other important piece to this particular |
| 1:19.7 | puzzle is choosing the right filmmakers to collaborate with. And if you were making a comedy in the |
| 1:24.3 | late 80s or early 90s, there were worse guys to align yourself with |
| 1:27.7 | than Ivan Reitman, the director responsible for meatballs, stripes, and the two Ghostbusters |
| 1:32.4 | films. He and Schwarzenegger first teamed up for twins two years prior to this, and although |
| 1:37.3 | that film was dragged through the dirt by critics, it was a hit with audiences and resulted in one |
| 1:41.7 | of the biggest paydays of Arnold's career up to that point. |
| 1:44.7 | So when he was being courted for the role of John Kimball and kindergarten cop, |
| 1:48.5 | one of his demands before signing on was that Reitman had to be the director. |
| 1:52.7 | The two of them were on the same page throughout most of production, |
| 1:55.1 | but as the film neared completion, and then especially after it was released, |
| 1:59.4 | Schwarzenegger had some reservations about a few of |
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