![]() In the 1998 Howie Long action thriller Firestorm, the word “firestorm” is said no less than 115 times, with varying degrees of intensity. I feel like this is what the next Jurassic World trilogy needs to be about. The point is, for a few years we wanted nothing more than to be friends with dinosaurs, or at the very least force dinosaurs to wear collared shirts and ride the bus. The ABC sitcom Dinosaurs gave a bunch of humanoid dinosaurs blue-collar jobs and suburbia. We’re Back pulled regular dinosaurs from the past, cursed them with the ability of speech, and unleashed them on 1990s America to sing and dance for children. Dinosaur City, Theodore Rex, and the Super Mario Bros.movie all feature kids, established comedians, and accomplished character actors palling around with humanoid dinosaurs in vaguely dystopian settings. More specifically, human beings getting to befriend dinosaurs, and those dinosaurs existing in weird alternate realities in which they dress and behave like Reagan-era skate punks. Let’s see a movie about a preschool rivalry featuring the voice talents of Ray Winstone and Henry Rollins.įrom the mid-1980s right up until around Jurassic Park was released, pop culture became very concerned with dinosaur friendships. Also, in keeping with the spirit of the original Look Who’s Talking, which starred Bruce Willis as the voice of little Mikey, the babies must all be voiced by tough guys. Don’t give me any of this Boss Baby nonsense. To be clear, the babies must communicate psychically, and only with other babies. I want to see the same time and energy devoted to the Air Buddies franchise deliver me a fresh boon of gabby baby films. They even made a third Look Who’s Talking that doesn’t feature a single talking baby, but entirely too many dogs with the voice of Danny DeVito. The movie spawned a near-immediate sequel and a TV show spinoff called Baby Talk starring George Clooney, but then Hollywood slept off the talking baby hangover and pivoted hard into talking dogs. If we can team Clint Eastwood up with a chimpanzee twice in the same century, we can make Ice-T solve mysteries with a bulldog.Īmy Heckerling’s 1989 comedy Look Who’s Talking catapulted the world into a bold new era of movies featuring babies that psychically communicate with each other via indeterminate black magic. ![]() ![]() But it’s wild we haven’t gotten one of these a year since the Clinton administration. Disney+ is releasing a 12-episode series adaptation of Turner & Hooch, so we may be poised on the verge of a CopDog renaissance. Chuck Norris tried to revitalize the CopDog phenomenon with 1995’s Top Dog, but his wheel-kicking conservatism and penchant for aggressively shitty movies did nothing to further endear us to cops or dogs. ![]() It’s as if the climax of Turner & Hooch, in which a money-laundering seafood baron shoots the titular Hooch to death in defiance of test-screening audiences everywhere, was metaphorical. This was a bonafide genre for several months in 1989, which saw the release of both K-9 and Turner & Hooch, but the genre came to an abrupt end after that. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.Saddling a no-nonsense cop with a ridiculous and/or criminally insane partner is a tale as old as time, but in the late 80 Hollywood stumbled onto the idea of making that partner a dog and for a brief moment the cosmos aligned. A few scenes include casual drinking, and one character's alcohol abuse is addressed. Expect some comic references to having sex ("booty call," "keep the shark in the tank"), and the camera leers at young women in bikinis poolside. The comedy is kid-friendly, the story is simple (and mostly ludicrous) to a fault, and the villains are farcical and exaggerated, but bodies fall, guns are fired, and fists are landed, so it's an odd blend. ![]() As a result, it's not always clear exactly which audiences the filmmakers were targeting. Though the action and violence are mostly slapstick and not meant to be taken seriously, there's enough gunplay, fighting, and suspense, along with some racy language ("s-t," "ass," "bitch," "damn," "my sister has a vagina") to earn the film a PG-13 rating. It's not a "sequel" (it has all new characters and a whole new story) only the concept remains the same: Law officer goes undercover as a teacher in a kindergarten classroom to catch a criminal. Parents need to know that Kindergarten Cop 2 is a very late direct-to-DVD companion piece to Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1990 hit comedy Kindergarten Cop. ![]()
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