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Could it be the Godfather II of bromance action-comedy
sequels? 22 Jump Street is the outrageous and very immature follow-up to 21
Jump Street, proving that the next in the franchise series doesn't need to be
awful. This it does by breaking out the gags, the stunts and the cheekily
self-aware riffs like there's absolutely no tomorrow. Phil Lord and Christopher
Miller (from The Lego Movie) direct, and the screenplay is by Michael Bacall,
Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman, from a story devised by Bacall and Jonah Hill.
It certainly provides that rarest of things: relaxing
enjoyment. In all its uncompromising goofiness, 22 Jump Street brings onstream
a sugar-rush of entertainment. Reviewers' noses too often wrinkle up at
comedies – unless, of course, burdened with darkness or surrealism – while
horror and superhero pictures, no matter how moderate, are greeted with cowed
respect.
Here, on the other hand, is a movie that made me feel guilty for
laughing quite so much. There is sometimes something inspired in its screwball
craziness. It features a line about Cate Blanchett which pretty much justifies
the price of admission on its own.
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back as the appalling
Schmidt and Jenko, two grown men in their late 20s who are police officers
co-opted into a top-secret undercover division, posing as teenagers in high
school to root out drug dealers.
The first movie was based on the 1980s TV show
with Johnny Depp, where the premise was taken reasonably straight; in the film
it is played for laughs and kidulthood satire. Now Schmidt and Jenko return,
and the idea is that they have graduated to college. They must go in deep,
posing as undergrads to … to root out drug dealers. Their superior officer,
Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) announces this weirdly similar assignment in
the manner of a jaded Hollywood executive who is hardly able to believe that
the first story has spawned a new one.
And when Schmidt and Jenko report for duty at another disguised disused church, across the road from the old one, their commander is once again Captain Dickson, played by Ice Cube, who is just as scornful of his team, but thrilled at the fact that their HQ is now kitted out with all sorts of pointlessly flashy furnishings.
Schmidt and Jenko duly show up at college, and naturally find that they really do discover themselves there. Superjock Jenko, with his cubic head and permanently hungover face, finds fulfilment such as he has never known on the football team, and his course on sexuality is moreover very rewarding. He bonds with fellow player Zook (Wyatt Russell), while Schmidt is deeply hurt at his buddy's new "bros before lesser bros" policy and what appears to be the end of their friendship. Meanwhile, Schmidt goes to excruciating poetry slams and finds a tender new relationship with sensitive arts major Maya (Amber Stevens), a liaison that is to lead to all sorts of problems at work.
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Finally, Jenko suggests to Schmidt that they "should
investigate other people. Sow our cop oats." And all the time the
youngsters wonder at the crinkly lines around our heroes' eyes and how old they
look. Hill and Tatum have a great double-act going; I'm tempted to invoke the
memory of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, only both are interestingly subdued, and
Tatum is no straight man; he has a gift for comedy.
Below is a video which is a must see in the movie (I laughed
way hard at this f***king scene)
And since I've mentioned it, here are some hilarious vid due
to that ONE LINE (if you can guess, you are one true Jump Street fans)
The two leads have what can only be described as a thwarted
heteroerotic relationship, challenged by the quasi-grownup demands of college.
Schmidt's love life brings him into conflict with Maya's roommate Mercedes,
played by SNL writer Jillian Bell, who absolutely steals every scene –
dead-eyed and contemptuous at all times. She is brilliant in a later sequence
featuring a fist-fight with an awkwardly sexual undertow, an example of what
the script calls "Mr-and-Mrs-Smith-ing".
There is a great deal of supremely watchable and funny
silliness in Schmidt and Jenko's new life together in their college dorm room,
especially when they have to bond with the twins who live in the room over the
hall, Keith and Kenny, played by the Lucas Brothers, whose synchronised way of
speaking is winningly strange.
As for the prospect of more Jump Streets, the idea is
comprehensively trashed at the beginning and end of the film in some very sharp
self-reflexive satire, which uses up loads of perfectly serviceable ideas and
generally burns its franchise boats. They don't want to wind up like some sort
of two-man Police Academy. Fair enough. It was very funny while it lasted.
22 Jump Street is damn funny, sometimes outrageously so. It
laughs at its own dumb logic and invites us in on the fun.
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Kofi Outlaw·Screen Rant
Cinematic offal that's incredibly inane, tedious
and foul; a dimwitted waste of time and mocker of morality that makes Dumb and
Dumber look like a product of high art.
Bob Hoose·Plugged In
That will be all folks... have fun watching this movie
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