When she catches him in her office snooping for the thumb drive, Reed asks her out on a date and they begin to connect romantically. Reed's co-teacher in kindergarten, Olivia is an attractive single woman. This motivates Reed to apologize and ask for some assistance from Sanders (father of five), Reed learns to lead the class in a more relational and emotionally-aware way. He uses an air horn to command obedience, but the principal gives him one strike. Again he loses control when he gives them chocolate cookies and they bounce off the walls from the sugar.Īlthough day one is rough, Reed insists he will persevere without Sanders' help. One boy has severe allergies, especially nuts, so mayhem breaks out when they realize that Reed is eating peanut butter. On his first day, Reed struggles to keep the kids' attention and to keep it together. The school has a very liberal/modern perspective on teaching and managing children which is, at first, quite awkward to Reed's more straightforward ways. So Reed, with a fictitious resumé, applies for the role of teacher to the bereaved class and is easily hired.
The file has been stored on a USB flash drive by a now-deceased kindergarten teacher.Īfter Sanders interviews the teacher's students and the staff, no one seems to know where the drive is. Plot įederal agent Zack Reed and his partner Sanders are pursuing dangerous criminal leader Alexander Zogu who has discovered a copy of the FBI witness protection database. The film was released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on DVD in the United States on May 17, 2016. The school at which the film was produced is Kanaka Elementary. Principal photography in Maple Ridge, Langley, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada took place for 28 days, from July 27 to August 24, 2015. It is a standalone sequel to the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm a tenured professor at NYU.Kindergarten Cop 2 is a 2016 American comedy film starring Dolph Lundgren and directed by Don Michael Paul. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, should be seen. "I think that one of the most racist films ever, D.W. "I think that that should be seen," he explained during an appearance on The View in June.
He noted that he shows it to his film students at NYU. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee spoke out in favor of the 1915 movie. Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago professor in the department of Cinema and Media Studies and Turner Classic Movies host, said that it is an "opportunity to think about what classic films can teach us."īirth of a Nation has also been criticized for its depiction of African Americans. HBO Max previously removed Gone With The Wind from its streaming platform, and reinstated it with an introduction that provided historical context.
The call to ban Kindergarten Cop is the latest in folks demanding a change to controversial films. Despite the heartfelt, full-circle ending of the crime comedy, Leveen still called for banning the film from the drive-in festival. At the end of the comedy, Kimble quits the police force and becomes a teacher.
Kindergarten Cop follows Kimble (Schwarzenegger), an undercover cop posing as a teacher assigned to take down a drug kingpin. "They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions."Ī spokesperson for the Northwest Film Center said that they considered not only Leveen's comments in their decision, but "a dozen others, including Black community members who asked us to consider opening the Drive-In with a different movie," Williamette Week reported on August 3. So are BIRTH OF A NATION and GONE WITH THE WIND, but we recognize films like those are not 'good family fun,'" Leveen concluded her Twitter thread. And this criminalizing of children increases dramatically when cops are assigned to work in schools." "5- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country. "There's nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the 'school-to-prison' pipeline in which African American, Latinx, and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated," she added. Read more Why Are People So Mad About 'Mulan' Coming to Disney+ Early?
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