He also deals with a case of child abuse, eventually punishing Zach Sullivan's father for abusing his son and winning Schlowski's favor. In turn, Kimble begins to enjoy his undercover role. Using Kimble's pet ferret as a class mascot, his police training as a model for structure of the classes, his experience as a father, and positive reinforcement, he becomes a much-admired and cherished figure to the children. Though overwhelmed at first, Kimble adapts to his new status, despite not having any formal teaching experience or training. The suspicious school principal Miss Schlowski is convinced Kimble will not last long before quitting. Unfortunately, the hypoglycemic O'Hara gets a terrible case of stomach flu and falls ill at the last moment, so Kimble takes the teacher's job. To find Crisp's former wife, O'Hara is to act as the substitute teacher in Cullen Jr.'s kindergarten class at Astoria Elementary School. The detectives plan to offer her immunity in exchange for testifying against Crisp in court.

Little Mermaid, when it dropped, was seen as a return to form, but a possible fluke it took Beauty and the Beast the year after Kindergarten Cop came out before people went 'okay, cool, Disney's good again' as a whole.After years of pursuing drug lord Cullen Crisp, LAPD Detective John Kimble finally has him on a murder charge after Crisp kills an informant who gives him information regarding the whereabouts of his former wife Rachel Myatt Crisp and son Cullen, Jr.Īccompanied by detective and former teacher Phoebe O'Hara, Kimble goes undercover in Astoria, Oregon, to find Crisp's former wife who allegedly stole millions of dollars from Crisp before fleeing. That said, this is also completely unrelated to what the person you were initially replying to was talking about, which is how the 80s nearly killed Disney stone dead as a company. The live-action remakes are basically a way to reposition stuff like Lion King and Little Mermaid and Mulan in the same market space as Marvel and Star Wars, because that's Disney's big moneymaker these days. Disney sees feature 2D animation as an outright dead art form (they shuttered their last unit for it over a decade ago), and has been de-emphasizing 3D animation as well in favor of live-action 'family IP ' note how most of WDAS' stuff and a significant chunk of Pixar's stuff from the past couple of years has been straight to Disney+. ironically, though, that's exactly why they're doing the live-actions. The is a reason why Disney is doing live action of those. but it kind of was in 1988 pre TLM, when this crop of kids/family entertainment was being greenlit. obviously Disney Animation was not 'dead' in 1990. Some of the above are bizarre if you watch the now like 'wait, I saw this as a kid's movie?!' lots of live action movies with big adult stars and themes and adult content but that were also marketed as family-friendly/kid films. just A Time.īy the time TLK came out, yeah, we were all like ALL HAIL DISNEY, but prior to that it was a strange mix of Don Bluth animations and things like Kindergarten Cop, Three Men and a Little Lady, Batman, Parenthood, Mermaids, Problem Child, Look Who's Talking, etc.

It was the pre-franchise dominance/mega Blockbuster era but also the beginning new era of the Hollywood star (ie: Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks). The movie market was WEIRD right at the turn of the 90s, generally, in part due to lots of studio shakeups and the transition from 80s tastes/stars to 90s tastes/stars. I was a kid during this exact era and obviously went bonkers for TLM, but remember distinctly also watching Kindergarten Cop as a kid.

We didn't know yet what was to come w/ BATB, TLK, etc. I presume they mean that at the time this film was greenlit and even when it was released, Disney was coming off a ROUGH decade and TLM had just hit. I had to cover her eyes and ears over some parts and so I was left with the question, who is this movie for? I was also surprised by how much I still enjoyed it. The title sequence is done in crayon for gods sake! But people get shot on camera! The beginning and end of the movie are basically full on bloody action movies with drugs, shooting, swearing, sex and people dying next to urinals but the middle is this soft, approachable gooey kid-friendly story. Holy crap it's so much more violent than I remember! Well, parts of it are. So we watched it last night and it was the first time I'd seen it in about 20 years. Now that I'm a father I saw it on Prime and was so excited to share this light hearted tale of hard-line macho cop turned kindergarten teacher with my kid. I remember watching Kindergarten Cop when I was young and really enjoying it.

Kindergarten cop cast then and now