![]() Kindergarten Cop 2 hits DVD in a 1.78.1 anamorphic widescreen transfer from Universal that looks okay but never amazing, even by standard definition criteria. Kindergarten Cop 2 is the filmed equivalent of French Fries - not really all that memorable, pleasant enough at the time, and completely forgettable once you're finished with it. If you go into this knowing that, aware that this movie isn't even trying to do something even remotely unique, you can have a good time with it. It's also about fifteen minutes too long at that length. It's one predictable cliché after another for an hour and forty some odd minutes. Aleks Paunovic, who previously acted alongside Dolph in Uwe Boll's In The Name Of The King 2: Two Worlds, plays his thug as one, big cliché - he's even got a pool outside his place that has a revolving door of hotties that show up for a quick dip and just sort of lounge around in the way that hotties lounge around pool's owned by criminals in movies with no originality.Īnd that's the biggest problem with the movie, it has no originality. Bill Bellamy is surprisingly underused here but amusing enough when he is on screen, while Sarah Strange as the quirky, insanely politically correct woman in charge of the school has some genuinely funny lines. Darla Taylor's part isn't deep but she's foxy enough to work in the part and she handles the material just fine. Either way, he's fun to watch here and that's all that matters, his likeably dopey style suits the tone of the movie just fine. He's still the beefy action hero here, but he's also 'a pretty good teacher.' Although that line got cut and is in the deleted scenes, not the feature proper. This movie doesn't ask him to stretch as an actor, but it does cast him slightly against type. There's a definite novelty to seeing him interact with five and six year olds and he has proven in the past that he has a good sense of humor and decent comedic timing. To his credit, Lundgren is fun to watch here. The ending that you can see coming a mile away. The date that starts off great but ends poorly when the job gets in the way. There's a loud, in your face commanding officer. He tries to be Reed's bro-friend until he learns that he and Olivia have a thing going. There are very few teachers though - just Reed and Olivia, we don't meet any others save for Hal, the chubby, nerdy guy who teaches computers. There's a kid whose dad has hit the bottle after losing his job, in need of Dolph's help (sort of) and there's a kid named Cowboy. There's a weird mix of buddy cop backslapping, hockey romance, aThere are crazy kids, annoying kids, funny kids. There are blatant instances of product placement for Twix bars and even one for Uber. She gives him some pointers and before you know it, they're out line dancing together, where they run into Zogu himself! As Reed realizes that he's foolishly put the lives of everyone at the school in danger, the clock starts ticking and the race to get the flash drive is on. ![]() Thankfully for him, there's Olivia (Darla Taylor), the hot teacher who handles the other kindergarten class. At any rate, he somehow convinces the woman who runs this progressive, highly priced private school, Miss Sinclaire (Sarah Strange), that he's the right man for the job and before you know it, he's being peed on by kids and letting peanuts into the classroom. Zogu will go to jail and everyone will be happy. He'll go undercover as the dead teacher's replacement, find the flash drive with the important information on it, and seal the deal. ![]() It's here that Reed, who lives in a trailer with a weight set on his front lawn, comes up with his genius plan. But in order to solidify their case against Zogu, they need to find a flash drive that belonged to a kindergarten teacher who has since gone the way of the dinosaur. Along the way, Reed got too close - he fell for Zogu's hot blonde mistress, Katja (Rebecca Olson). When Reed isn't pimping for Twix, he's catching bad guys, bad guys like an Eastern European mobster named Zogu (Aleks Paunovic). He plays by his own rules but has a decent relationship with his partner, Sanders (Bill Bellamy) even if their commanding officer frequently rakes them over the coals. agent named Reed who lives in a Seattle that's actually Vancouver. ![]() Lundgren doesn't play a cop, he plays an F.B.I. So it would stand to reason that if you were going to make a straight to video sequel to Kindergarten Cop, you'd get him to direct, right? And that's what happened, but this time out, there's no Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is instead Dolph Lundgren.Īdditionally, there is no cop. A quick look at his filmography shows that he has been behind follows up to Lake Placid, Jarhead, Sniper and Tremors. Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Bill Bellamy, Darla Taylor, Sarah Strange, Aleks Paunovicĭirector Don Michael Paul seems to have a bit of a cottage industry firmly in his grasp, in that he directs straight to video sequels to popular films.
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