21 Jump Street Reviews
Concrete Playground
Chaotic and far-fetched yet funny enough to have audiences rolling in the aisles.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Toledo Blade
Given the broad drama of the series, their movie should be full of big ideas, and instead settles for redundant gags involving drugs, guns, and high school cliques.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Austin American-Statesman
The supporting characters add depth to the comedic pairing of Tatum and Hill.
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| Original Score: A-
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Remake or no, this movie is hysterical.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
ScreenRant
21 Jump Street gets the remake job done with tongue-in-cheek style & plenty of outrageous moments.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Examiner.com
Because of Bacall's skill at writing great comedic material and Lord's and Miller's talent behind the camera, "21 Jump Street" became more than what it originally appeared to be, which is a surprise I'm always grateful for.
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| Original Score: 3/4
We Got This Covered
21 Jump Street takes the basic concept of the original series, and uses it to create an action/comedy that is not only palatable to modern audiences, but appealing as well.
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
Scene-Stealers.com
Co-written, produced by, and stars Jonah Hill, who took exactly the right attitude towards the movie: He and his costar Channing Tatum embraced the stereotypes, laughed at themselves, and came up with a surprisingly funny film.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
21 Jump Street is a smartly stupid buddy comedy that plays with the ridiculousness of its set-up.
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| Original Score: B
Knight at the Movies
Interchangeable with dozens of other "dude" comedies that have come before it.
LarsenOnFilm
...feels more like a guerrilla stunt than a soulless and cynical cash grab. Hooray for Hollywood, I guess.
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| Original Score: 3/4
IGN DVD
Slick and funny as hell, 21 Jump Street is one of the best comedies of the year.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Cinema Crazed
A raucous, entertaining, and incredibly funny film that respects the premise of the original series...
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Metropolis
For an action comedy, "21 Jump Street" had less action or comedy than I expected. It felt as if I spent too much time waiting for something to happen-either for a joke to fire, or a pistol.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Film Experience
The best thing that can be said for it is that it never coasts on just one type of joke; funny in execution, not just in concept.
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| Original Score: B
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
A floppy cross of high-school movie and buddy-cop comedy. Overdoses on flaccid penis and vagina 'jokes,' indulges in the ain't-this-cool?!ness of a cop-action flick, and passes out on the cliché-couch of bromance.
eFilmCritic.com
The movie is perfectly pleasant, a smidgen too aware of itself but consistently sharp.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Fan The Fire
While the film struggles at the start as Tatum and Hill share little chemistry, they improve minute by minute and are one of the shining lights by the end, their journey boasting a surprising emotional pull.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Ultra Culture
Feels like it's doing something new with the teen genre, while still acknowledging its debt to the classics that came before it.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
t's less fun when the guns come out in the final act, but there's a moment late in the game that redeems the movie's predictable beats, before the whole thing dissolves into entropy and disorder.
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| Original Score: 86/100
