21 Jump Street (2012)

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21 Jump Street

7/10

Starring
Jonah Hill
Channing Tatum
Brie Larson
Rob Riggle
Ice Cube


Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller


Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

I have to be honest, I never expected to like this movie, but boy was it good, the whole idea of adults going undercover as kids was actually a fun ride and I enjoyed it more than I planned to.

Buddy cop movies have been losing their waves. The thing is that all the buddy cop movies after Rush Hour 1 (1998) or Lethal Weapon (1987 – 1998), the buddy cop movies done now have been either too dull to comprehend or just mildly interesting and could just pass as a movie you’ve seen just to mark the register that you’ve seen it.

Based on a TV series of the same name which aired on Fox Network between 1987 and 1991, the series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues. The 2012 movie adaptation also had the former cast of the series; Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise play a minor role.

The plot had the duo Hill and Tatum as Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko (respectively), get deployed as undercover cops to a high school to bust a drug ring, and everything you’d expect to happen, doesn’t. That’s the fun of the movie.

Written by Jonah Hill who also starred in it, 21 Jump Street is a movie that suits a cinema viewing with a box of popcorn at your side. Hill’s performance was on a mild okay side, but the main cheese in the movie was Channing Tatum, who transcended from a jock to a nerd and still maintained his persona. I guess the most fun I had was when I saw Ice – Cube talking to the duo.

The movie was directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs). The directors and writers made sure you didn’t have to go see the original to get the full taste of 21 Jump Street, as the film made do of the current pop culture in our time and how ironic and dumb it looks to make a fun movie and enough juice left to make another.

21 Jump Street makes fun of everything in its path, even down to drugs, and how we kept expecting things to blow up and they just don’t. The jokes keeps coming in from every corner making you laugh all through.

The high moments in the movie was whenever the duo were together, the low moment was when they were apart.

It is a good movie to see, so go see it.