In later seasons, the team went less and less undercover on high schools, and the plots focused more on the cops personal lives. Check out the hilarious opening flashback with jock Jenko and supernerd Schmidt, in braces and dyed-yellow curls like a not-so-Slim Shady, emerging as natural-born enemies. Summary: 21 Jump Street is about a group of under-age looking cops who go undercover at high schools to catch young criminals before they become older, more dangerous criminals.
These dudes hated each other in high school. Oscar nominee Hill (I love saying that about the Moneyball star) is terrific as Schmidt, the brains of the duo, since Tatum’s Jenko barely mustered out of the police academy without his coaching. This bracing new take on 21 Jump Street has a playful spark all its own. A priceless cameo from Depp, in the role he created and about which my lips are sealed, confirms it.
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Producer Hill, who came up with the story with screenwriter Michael Bacall ( Project X), has too much affection for the TV series to reduce it to a spoof. But 21 Jump Street is no cheeseball reboot. Wasn’t there a Fox TV series with Johnny Depp that did the same shtick back in the 1980s? Yeah. “How old are you – 40?” asks a fellow student as Tatum (in a revelatory, bust-out comic performance) tries to squeeze into a dainty classroom seat.
It stars Jonah Hill, 28, and Channing Tatum, 31, as cops who go undercover in high school to bust a drug ring and wind up futilely trying to correct everything they screwed up in their teens. is an action comedy that holds that truth to be self-evident. Laugh all you want: life never stops being like high school.
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