I know a lot of people who said that this was gonna bomb. How making one movie based off of a TV series wouldn't work. Saw some of Ice Cube's clips and Jonah Hill is always pretty damn funny, so I wanted to see this. 21 Jump Street follows the story of two police officers, Schmidt and Jenko (Hill and Tatum) who in high school didn't go to Senior prom. Schmidt because he was a "nerd" and couldn't get a date and Jenko cause he was a bully jock and failed his classes. After graduation in the police academy they meet up. Instead of being enemies, they worked together. Schmidt helping Jenko with the studying aspect and Jenko helping Schmidt with the physical part of it. They graduate together and become partners...on park patrol. One day they catch a break but are transferred to an undercover project cause they didn't mirandize the suspect. Now the two unlikely cops must bunker down and stop a drug ring from breaking out of a high school and turning into a city-wide problem.
This is quite the nice example of an action-comedy. The scenes involving any combination of Tatum, Hill, Ice Cube, and Riggle can be side splitting. The action scenes are solid to boot, there's even two long car chases and gun fights. I've seen Channing Tatum in roles before, and I'll admit that he sucked, but in this he won me over. He can be hilarious with the right counterpart. Jonah Hill does what he does best, is a comedic actor, no complaints there. Ice Cube plays a stereo-typical angry black man (he even admits this in character), and it is hilarious. Dave Franco plays a good role as well as the supplier to the school. While Brie Larson is just lovely. Also cameos by Johnny Depp, Nick Offerman and Jake Johnson make a very nice comedic presence throughout the movie. All in all this is WELL worth the watch. It's got the action a junkie would want sprinkled throughout a raunchy R-Rated comedy that is cleverly written. It's not based off of the original series, it takes the outline, funnies it up and reinvents it.
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