Kindergarten Cop - It shouldn't work, but it does

Granted Kindergarten Cop stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, but, apart from that, I sometimes wonder how this film got made. It has a healthy dose of `typical Arnie butt-kicking,' plus a load of cute kids, a child abuse sub-plot, creepy child abductors, romantic comedy element and a kooky police partner (expertly played by Pamela Reed).

Big Arnie is a tough cop (no change there then) who has to go undercover in a class fill of five year olds in order to try and find out which child is being hunted by a mobster. All in all, it should be a mess. The film-makers have thrown in so many elements that it must turn out to be a stinker and yet somehow, it turns out to be a classic.

The film covers so many areas and succeeds in every one. It's hard to know who its target audience is, but I would probably say anyone from teenage upwards. Even though it's a film about children, it does tend to exclude the younger audiences from watching it, as some of the scenes might be a little upsetting for youngsters.

Apart from that, I'd say that most people over the age of about twelve should be able to get some sort of enjoyment from one of Arnie's slightly more surreal performances.

8/10 The Force is definitely strong with this one