Presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Kindergarten Cop 2 enjoys a picture notable for lovely, rich colors, natural flesh-tones and good gradations in light levels. Mmmm, satisfying!) Though it pains me to use such a tired recommendation, go ahead and Rent It when you're ready to shut off the old brain and just have a good time. (Seriously, whatever its strengths or faults, this is in the end a feature-length advertisement for Twix candy bars. Kindergarten Cop 2 doles out plenty of laughs and some gripping action sequences, anchored by Lundgren's curious accent and apparently truckloads of sponsorship money from Twix. While the tunes in the soundtrack are mysteriously pretty fantastic, a little goes a very long way when watching precocious kids mug for the camera.Īnd that's a ton written for a decades late B-movie sequel. Director Don Michael Paul also relies heavily on musical montages. Plenty of extremes in overuse are generated too, such as when Reed feeds his students peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, (heaven forbid!) sending the kids on a ten-minute rampage, virtually destroying their classroom. KC2 lands more than its fair share of punches, generating plenty of laughs along the way. It's a pleasure to watch the air taken out of current trends to raise a bunch of namby-pamby, sensitive kids afraid of adversity. It's an easy target, but one that's not often put on notice in a B-movie. KC2's strengths lie in its ability to skewer liberal mores in child rearing. One suspects Lundgren could carry the action movie much more easily, but finds that in this case the kiddie comedy comes out just slightly ahead, and not because Lundgren forms any kind of rapport with the kids. Inside KC2 lie two passable movies for a rainy Saturday afternoon. Like the previous Kindergarten Cop, KC2 treads action comedy ground, uneasily, and not in the least because guns and kids don't easily mix. (Pun intended, but not warranted.) Can Reed possibly pull the wool over a bunch of over-privileged five-year-old's eyes, catch the bad guy, and avoid falling in love with the other ultra-hot kindergarten teacher? Hell to the no! Soon enough, Reed's doing undercover work as a kindergarten teacher at a ritzy private school, hoping to find a missing USB drive and smoke out a major drug dealer. His pal Agent Sanders (Bellamy) tries keeping him on the straight-and-narrow, but Reed's having none of that. When he's not washing his clothes in an old oil barrel or something he's falling in love with his female marks, one by one. ) who lives an iconic loner's life in an airstream trailer by a beautiful lake. A sequel in name only, KC2 features Lundgren as Agent Reed, a tough-as-nails, loose cannon type of FBI Agent (no clichés here. It's ubiquity in streaming circles means you'll either need to make the conscious choice to watch it, or it'll just happen on its own, eventually. On your way there (to hell) you might find Kindergarten Cop 2 playing in the background, and you'll realize hell might not be all that bad after all.Īt least that's what we say about Kindergarten Cop 2, starring the stoic Swede Dolph Lundgren, and the criminally underused Bill Bellamy it's not all that bad. What's a 'rental' you ask? What's a counter? Oh man, the Internet has sent to world to hell in a hand basket. Netflix has kind of taken the fun out of reviewing DVDs, what with stuff like Kindergarten Cop 2 streaming seemingly well before you can even drop your bucks on the rental counter for a peek.
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