Actually quite funny, "21 Jump Street" is a nice surprise, and Channing Tatum proves to be more than capable of holding his own opposite comedy veteran Jonah Hill. This "Jump Street" is played for laughs, as two bumbling rookies, whose major skills are looking and acting immature, go undercover at a high school to bust a locally sourced synthetic drug ring. Gleefully raunchy, the movie takes pot shots at its own conventions: high school life movies, cop movies, action movies, teen movies, buddy movies, not to mention its own TV origins. They took some chances here, and for me, it paid off handsomely.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
21 Jump Street ****
Actually quite funny, "21 Jump Street" is a nice surprise, and Channing Tatum proves to be more than capable of holding his own opposite comedy veteran Jonah Hill. This "Jump Street" is played for laughs, as two bumbling rookies, whose major skills are looking and acting immature, go undercover at a high school to bust a locally sourced synthetic drug ring. Gleefully raunchy, the movie takes pot shots at its own conventions: high school life movies, cop movies, action movies, teen movies, buddy movies, not to mention its own TV origins. They took some chances here, and for me, it paid off handsomely.
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