1 part hardcore Arnold action, 1 part creepy-ass Oedipal villain, 1 part child abduction plot, 1 part domestic abuse subplot, 1 part rom-com between Arnold and the teacher, 1 part the weirdness that is Phoebe O'Hara, and 1 part hilarious Arnold-plays-with-kids jokes.
Really... what the hell?
Clearly a lot of people since it was a massive hit.
shareMy guess is Dad's who need a little something for the kids that's all in one. Action with some laughs.
shareME
shareIt's weird thinking of this movie today. It's funny for the Arnold one liners, but the plot of him going undercover as Kindergarten teacher to find the kid who's father is a drug dealer is very adult oriented for a so called family movie.
shareFamily movies in the eighties up to the mid nineties always had this darker edge to them. By the turn of the millenium, they became more toned down.
shareyeah i know, it's weird, i sort of expected this to be a kid like family friendly movie so the brutality and shooting came unexpected, i sort of liked it though, it doesn't become funny until he enters the kindergarten, i'm not english speaking and for a long while thought the word kindergarten was kindergarden, the actress from "matinee" (1993) a few years later had a pretty small part and he should've hooked up with her i thought at first, the boy looking up girl's dresses was weird and felt really inappropriate, i've never seen the opening logo like this before though i guess it looked like this on several movie releases this year then, it's notable how many scenes are shot in gloomy weather, i always find that puts a damper on things, like where was this shot, in the uk or something. i had no idea this had sequel made almost two decades later.
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something in your eye,
scare and charm at the same time,
with such voluptuous forms,
looks like moulding clothes about to explode,
but even if you lost your shapes,
youd still have my heart enslaved.