Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
22 Jump Street is the sequel to the successful 2012 comedy 21 Jump Street starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. The original 21 Jump Street was a television show in the 80's that starred Johnny Depp about a cop that goes under cover as a high school student. Both stars Tatum and Hill reprise their roles as Schmidt and Jenko, two polar opposites that have joined the Police Academy Schmidt being the brains and Jenko being the brawn helping each other pass through the academy to become police officers. Together they are the perfect pair of screw ups. Because of how they look they are assigned to a special unit that sends cops under cover into high schools to prevent drugs from spreading to kids located at 21 Jump Street. The unit is led by Captain Dickson played by Ice Cube. In 22 Jump Street they are back and this time going to college to track down the dealers and suppliers of a new drug that's causing the death of students. The guys take on everything you would expect to find in a film about college life ending in an exciting climax during Spring Break with a showdown between them and the drug suppliers.
Over all I really liked this movie. It was a great comedy that kept me laughing throughout the whole film. This film also has a scene that gave me the longest laugh I've had sitting in a theatre for a long time. The directors took what they learned from the first film by keeping what worked and improving what didn't work the first time around. Hill and Tatum are probably the best buddy bromance in film since Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in the Bad Boys films. Ice Cube plays the typical Captain role to a T just like you see in every buddy cop film like Lethal Weapon, but adds his own little spin on the part that only Ice Cube could do. This film follows the same type of comedy formula of the first film with awkward moments, toilet humor, and stereotypes. so if you weren't a fan of the first one you should probably pass this film by. What I really liked about this film is all the ways it actually makes fun of itself and it's genre, sort of a parody of the buddy cop parody. It's refreshing to see a film that's comfortable enough to do that. The levels of humor and jokes used in this film seem to literally cover the whole spectrum of comedy. There are ships that go back to the days of Abbott and Costello jokes to the Jim Carey/Jeff Daniels level of humor in Dumb and Dumber. My last bit of advice on if you should see this film is if the trailer looks funny to you you'll like the film. Luckily this is one of the few comedies made these days that doesn't show all the good parts in the trailers. This is a great film and its really funny. It'll be a great break from reality for two hours for a good laugh.
Trailer for 21 Jump Street in case you haven't seen it but are interested.
