Kindergarten Cop

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Kindergarten Cop
"SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUP!!"
Genre: Action

Comedy

Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Produced by: Ivan Reitman

Brian Grazer

Written by: Murray Salem

Herschel Weingrod Timothy Harris

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Penelope Ann Miller Pamela Reed Linda Hunt Richard Tyson Carroll Baker

Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Editing: Wendy Greene Bricmont

Sheldon Kahn

Music by: Randy Edelman
Production company: Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date: December 21, 1990
Runtime: 111 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $26 million
Box office: $91.5 million
Franchise: Kindergarten Cop
Sequel: Kindergarten Cop 2

Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Universal Pictures. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as John Kimble, a tough police detective working undercover as a kindergarten teacher to apprehend drug dealer Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) before he can get to his ex-wife and son. While undercover, Kimble discovers a passion for teaching he never knew he had, and considers changing his profession to become an educator. Pamela Reed plays his partner, Phoebe O'Hara, and Penelope Ann Miller plays Joyce, the teacher who becomes his love interest. The original music score was composed by Randy Edelman. The film was released in the United States on December 21, 1990. It is the first installment in the Kindergarten Cop film series.

Plot

After years of pursuing Cullen Crisp, an infamous drug dealer, LAPD detective John Kimble arrests him for murder; a witness saw him murder an informant after getting information regarding the whereabouts of his ex-wife, Rachel, who allegedly stole millions of dollars from him before fleeing with his son. Partnered with former teacher-turned-detective Phoebe, Kimble goes undercover in Astoria, Oregon to find Rachel and offer her immunity in exchange for testifying against Crisp in court. Phoebe must act as a substitute teacher in Cullen Jr's kindergarten class at Astoria Elementary School. Phoebe gets a terrible case of stomach flu, falling ill at the last moment, so Kimble takes her place.

Why It Doesn't Need To "SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUP!!"

  1. It had many funny and memorable moments and scenes in this film like the famous Shut Up scene that became a internet meme.
  2. Great acting for excellent actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Penelope Ann Miller.
  3. Excellent and decent music scores by Randy Edelman.
  4. Kimble's pet ferret is absolutely adorable.
  5. It was one of the best films with Arnold Schwarzenegger along with other films like The Terminator and Killing Gunther.
  6. Memorable and hilarious quotes like "What did it feel like to hit that son of a bitch?", "I'm not a policeman, I'm a princess!" and "SHUT UP!!!!!"

"SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUP!!" Qualities

  1. Many years later, It had a terrible sequel in 2016 that killed off the franchise.
  2. Although it had good moments, it did have some bad moments as well.

Reception

Box office

Kindergarten Cop grossed $91.4 million in North America, $110.5 in other territories, and $202 million worldwide. It was released in the United Kingdom on February 1, 1991, and topped the country's box office that weekend.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 51% based on 37 reviews. The site's consensus states:

Arnold Schwarzenegger substitutes his action brio with some refreshingly adept comedic timing, but Kindergarten Cop is too grim for children and too cloying for adults.

On Metacritic, it has a score of 61 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale. Reviewer Caryn James of The New York Times said, "Like Twins, which was also directed by Ivan Reitman, nothing in the film is as funny as the idea of it."

In Kim Newman's review for Empire, he wrote, "with a heart of purest mush, the film still manages to be generally entertaining" and gave it 3 stars out of 5. An EW.com review at the time of release notes that: "the movie never quite gels and it is not going to generate quite the mega hit business their producers are counting on," giving it a 'C' grade.

Roger Ebert said the film: "is made up of two parts that shouldn't fit, but somehow they do, making a slick entertainment out of the improbable, the impossible and Arnold Schwarzenegger" and awarded it three stars.

On April Fool's Day 2012, as a prank, it was announced that the film was selected for a release on DVD and Blu-ray Disc as part of the Criterion Collection, a video distribution company dedicated to the release of "important classic and contemporary films". It was said to be selected as important in part because of its genre revisionist use of both the policier and family comedy genres in the same film. It was officially released on Blu-ray, though not by Criterion, on July 1, 2014.

Legacy

For the video game Silent Hill, parts of Astoria Elementary School from the film were used as reference for the location Midwich Elementary School. Several of Schwarzenegger's memorable lines from the film were used in sound boards for prank phone calls that became popular in the early 2000s.

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