22 Jump Street
Director: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Cast Headliners: Channing Tatium, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube
Original Release Date: June 13, 2014
At
some point 21 Jump Street was a serious police drama from the 1980’s starring
Johnny Depp. Then at a later point in 2012 it was rebooted
with a film that had a approached which can simply be described as “radically
different.” The series has now become a
comedy, and the premise of “cops going undercover in schools” totally worked
when it came to humor. Where before in
all incarnations of the franchise the setting had been in high schools, now it
has transitioned to taking place in a college.
Schmidt
(Jonah Hill) and Greg(Channing Tatum) go on their mission to college sent by
Cpt.Jackson (Ice Cube) of the now-22 Jump Street department. A lot of the jokes
in this film happen on many levels; in this case the movie’s a sequel and they
had to move down the street. This is a
trademark of directors Phil Lord and
Chris Miller, who have another good movie in 2014 after the brilliant Lego
Movie in February. Many times the movie
references the fact that’s it’s a sequel and so on, which is good the first few
time and less so after.
One of the things 22 Jump Street mocks about itself is
the fact that it’s so similar to the first film. And yes, there are a lot of
parallels. A fresh perspective comes
from the fact that they are in college. So there’s the tropes of frats, and
professors, and all the various mischief college brings. The best laughs comes from Greg joining a
fraternity and finding a new best friend in Zook(great up-and-comer Wyatt
Russel) much to Schmidt’s agitation. There’s not much that hasn’t really not been
seen in a college movie before however.
There’s some ok action sidelined to the laughs. The situations are so extreme, the laughs very
constant. It’s a silly movie that will
deliver to its target audience. It’s
more of the same and that’s not a bad thing for this very, very silly comedy. 8
out of 10
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