![]() ![]() When Lundgren does it, he's stiff, awkward, and probably in need of a few handfuls of Aspirin. Hes there to recover stolen data, but first hell have to learn to survive in the politically. When Schwarzenegger lifts a child in nostril-flaring frustration, it's pretty damn funny. A gruff FBI agent goes under cover as a kindergarten teacher. My point is in addition to lacking Schwarzenegger's personality and charisma, he's lacking the physical presence that automatically finds humor in the contrast between him and the tiny children. His knees appear to be in rough shape to the point that it looks like he's in pain when he runs. Not that you'd know it by the multiple women and a gay man throwing themselves his direction, but watch the guy try to move fast (here or in any of his recent DTV action movies). Sure he's tall, but despite the film's insistence that he's also muscular – his 30-year-old love interest mentions it more than once – he's looking a little worse for wear. ![]() Look, I like Lundgren as much as the next movie fan, but let's not pretend he even comes close to matching Schwarzenegger's over-sized persona and presence. The kids grow on Kimble, though, as he learns to love and communicate without scaring the crap out of them, but soon after he finds the woman he's searching for, her murderous ex arrives in town intent on abducting his son and killing anyone in his way. Dolph Lundgren and Bill Bellamy star in the next chapter of the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Dolph Lundgren and Bill Bellamy star in the hilarious next chapter of the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, Kindergarten Cop. ![]() Kimble is clueless about kids – his female partner was originally going to do it, but she fell ill – and his efforts to question them like suspects isn't gaining any traction with them or the school's principal, who's allowed his presence with a very short leash. (Although you could make an argument for 1987's The Running Man being a comedy too.) Reitman was the genius responsible for seeing the potential in the big Austrian playing against type, and he followed it a couple years later with Kindergarten Cop, which casts him as a tough cop who goes undercover in an elementary school in the hopes of identifying a killer's estranged ex-wife and son before the bad guy finds them first. Swedish actor and martial artist Dolph Lundgren is reportedly starring in Kindergarten Cop 2, taking over for the original films lead (and his Expendables. Schwarzenegger's comedy career may have started with 1979's The Villain, but he became a comedic lead for the first time in 1988's Twins. ![]()
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