chapotraphouse

The one major criticism I have of Last Action Hero is that the tone is inconsistent, it clearly wants to be a kids' movie with the child sidekick and the magic ticket premise, but at the same time most of the humor isn't really aimed at kids. The reason the video games weren't allowed to have guns was also because Arnold was trying to cultivate a more kid-friendly image, which seems like a weird pivot in hindsight. It's not like most of Schwarzenegger's movies were kid-friendly at all, although Terminator 2 toys and video games were very successful, so I can see how they could've seen this panning out.