A Memorial Day Tribute to Kindergarden Cop (w/ vid)

It was not my intention to spend Memorial Day rewatching “Kindergarten Cop,” but somehow it happened. And as it turns out, “Kindergarten Cop” has more to offer 2010 in the political realm than you’d expect.

…Spending Memorial Day with “Kindergarten Cop.”
By Vadim Rizov on 06/01/2010

Filed under: Watchy

It was not my intention to spend Memorial Day rewatching “Kindergarten Cop,” but somehow it happened. And as it turns out, “Kindergarten Cop” has more to offer 2010 in the political realm than you’d expect. As TV Guide’s perceptive review notes, “Schwarzenegger tames his kindergarten class by having them do calisthenics, thereby shamelessly using his role to promote his offscreen position as chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness — and therefore the political ambitions he constantly denies having.”

That was written in 1990, and — with Schwarzenneger as governor of California — it no longer scans as paranoia or needless cynicism. Indeed, “Kindergarten Cop” — for unexpected reasons — is more timely than ever now. It, like “Iron Man 2,” is the story of a self-reliant man saving America from itself through questionable means, which is only the first of its many strangely apropos…

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A Memorial Day Tribute to Kindergarden Cop (w/ vid)

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