22 Jump Street (2014)
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Critics Consensus: Boasting even more of the bromantic chemistry between its stars -- and even more of the goofy, good-natured humor that made its predecessor so much fun -- 22 Jump Street is the rare sequel that improves upon the original.
Critics Consensus: Boasting even more of the bromantic chemistry between its stars -- and even more of the goofy, good-natured humor that made its predecessor so much fun -- 22 Jump Street is the rare sequel that improves upon the original.
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After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from … More- Rating:
- R (for language throughout, sexual content, drug material, brief nudity and some violence)
- Genre:
- Action & Adventure , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Chris Miller (VII) , Phil Lord
- Written By:
- Michael Bacall , Oren Uziel , Rodney Rothman
- In Theaters:
- Jun 13, 2014 Wide
- On DVD:
- Nov 18, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $191.3M
Cast
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Jonah Hill
as Schmidt -
Channing Tatum
as Jenko -
Peter Stormare
as The Ghost -
Ice Cube
as Captain Dickson -
Amber Stevens
as Maya -
Wyatt Russell
as Zook
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Critic Reviews for 22 Jump Street
All Critics (193) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (163) | Rotten (30)
This sequel to the hit action comedy 21 Jump Street is better all around: the pacing is more consistent, the sight gags more imaginative, the self-referential jokes sharper.
22 Jump Street is hardly fresh, but the picture has enough energy to get by.
22 Jump Street is pretty much the exact same movie as 21 Jump Street. It knows it, you know it, and it knows that you know it. And that is why it's brilliant.
Self-referential irony is hardly a new gimmick, having served as the underlying premise for such franchises as Scream and Austin Powers, but rarely has it been indulged with such fervor.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's second-best film of the year (behind The Lego Movie).
Filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who are themselves impressive partners at this point) know enough not to mess with a successful formula.
Despite some inevitable lulls, several scenes are as consistently funny as anything we've seen for years. And, like Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in last year's The Heat, the dialogue between the two leads makes up for the holes in the plot.
Full of inside jokes (hey, we're making a sequel) and fantastic performances, "22 Jump Street" is everything you want in a sequel and more.
Its adhering to formula nearly kills the film for that middle hour while the bromance plot thread is arguably based in latent homophobia.
While this film is dominated by vulgar, slapstick humor, it is not exactly brain dead. There is a certain self-aware, self-mocking quality to it. It also helps that the characters are basically good guys.
It doesn't disguise its intention as a blockbuster summer sequel that's more financially than creatively motivated.
This is a film that is creative enough... to mock its own lack of creativity.
Proving that sometimes the same joke is funnier the second time around, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum return for a major serving of big, broad, stupid laughs.
All you really need to know is that it's the cleverest sequel to a dumb movie of all time.
The jokes are fresh and more often than not manage to produce some big laughs.
'22 Jump Street' tries to catch a meta-wave on the shoulders of its stars, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
While much of this is pretty standard stuff, it's all easy to take thanks to the engaging performances from the two leads. The screenplay contains quite a few funny lines, and the direction by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller is crisp and efficient.
Subversively satisfying, if senselessly silly sequel.
In fact, much of the bawdy humor in 22 Jump Street comes from its makers' staunch refusal to take anything about the venture seriously.
In a summer of sequels, the most laughs so far, and by far, come from a raunchy retro repeat that makes plenty of fun of its own recycled folly-and expense.
Begins with a clip of a professor discussing the meaning of yin and yang, and that symbol of apparently opposing but in fact complementary forces becomes a kind of theme.
22 Jump Street is not just a sequel, it is a 112-minute running gag about sequels, including the adaptation of the title.
Most stars are terrified of looking like fools but Tatum runs head-on into his dumb jock visage.
Perfectly satisfying... betting everything on Hill and Tatum being delightful to watch in their little platonic romcom and winning that bet.
You're here (or should be here) for The Hill & Tatum Show, which worked so well first time around and is just as good this time.
It's the easy chemistry between Tatum - who gets funnier the dumber he acts, and here he's playing a character who can't remember what a library is called - and Hill that makes sure this is never less than entertaining.
Audience Reviews for 22 Jump Street
Yep I see what they did with the movie title there, clever I suppose but it isn't really anything to do with the original TV show now is it, its just a double team buddy cop comedy. The original flick was one of those movies I honesty don't really remember much about, I do recall it being surprisingly amusing and not a complete faceless load of shit but nothing monumentally amazing that stuck in my mind.
So with that we have the obligatory follow up which basically sees the same shit happening to the same guys twice, how can this happen? how unlucky can this duo be? aren't they too old for this shit? Instead of high school its now college in a highly original plot line (people got paid to think this up?) and guess what...there are some bad guys to nail on the college campus. Que everything we saw in the first movie...but on a college campus? really?
So by now you're probably thinking I'm about to destroy this movie...well maybe...OK just a bit. The fun takes time to get going, its a slow slow start and I was getting itchy feet. It plays out like any bog standard 80's action flick, they catch the bad guys at the start but there's a shoot out and they get away...only to pop up later in the movie. We see the two main characters entering college and trying to fit in pretty much as they did previously in high school. Naturally this means Hill has trouble being the fat not so good looking half of the duo, whilst Tatum being a jock fits the scene like a glove and hits it off with some football lugs.
For me the film only really starts to hit its stride when Hill ends up banging Ice Cube young student daughter which was a solid twist I genuinely didn't see coming. The sequences involving Hill, Cube, his daughter and Hill's parents are really very good and save the film from the boredom of the cliched sequences where the undercover pair are in classes trying to be students. A later scene where Cube is debriefing the pair and Tatum only just clicks to what's being going on with Hill's bedroom antics is a particularly funny scene, cheesy but good. Things take an odd turn when Tatum's relationship with a football jock seems to get very close, I realise they are meant to be best buds but Jesus I was really expecting some real bromance toilet humour in some scenes. I was waiting for the homosexual gags yet amazingly it didn't happen! would have had money down on that here and there.
On from there you get the obligatory break up of the cop duo as they go their separate ways which I didn't get. Tatum decides to stay in college and play football...so did he quit being a cop? surely you can't do both? yet apparently he was able to keep his undercover role and do both after all. There are the odd small sequences where the pair perform as real cops with all the proper gear yet in a spoof type manner. Tatum being the more athletic fit cop where as Hill...well you can guess. Towards the end you are presented with more obligatory cop action bits and pieces like a car chase with a fancy car and the sort of sneaky twist for the main bad guy behind everything.
I think the words obligatory and rehashed cover this movie pretty conclusively really. Its not a terrible movie, its not a great hilariously funny movie, its a reasonable buddy cop comedy satire/spoof but wholly unoriginal. The best bit about the whole film was the end credits sequence where the franchise is mocked completely by showing us spoofed movie posters and little clips for future installments in the franchise. The actual problem for that being they have literately covered everything that could possibly be done for a third film. So when that next sequel does turn up its genuinely not gonna feel any good because they have spoofed the whole franchise sequels aspect so well at the end here. Mocking repetitive fast food cash grab sequels huh...but at what point does this franchise actually become just that?
Super Reviewer
A solid comedy with plenty of laughs, '22 Jump Street' just does't do enough to convince that it is better than the original, despite the great comedic chemistry between the Tatum and Hill and all the hilarious mayhem within its runtime...and a little beyond it.
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"21 Jump Street" is one of my favorite comedies of recent years. It's main characters were endearing thanks to cleaver writing and the exceptional performances of Tatum and Hill. It payed homage to it's classic 80s Television name bearer, but had the smarts to do it's own thing at the same time (which was ingeniously sending up modern high school culture and mentality as well as cop movie cliches). The reason I've taken a little time to reminisce about just how good "21" is is because what "22 Jump Street" evokes above it's laughs is a constant sense of deja vu; so much so that one has to accept Phil Miller and Chris Lord's latest as self parody in order to get any enjoyment out of it. We are "treated" to constant repeated gags and call backs to the first film... with the leads in on the joke most of the time. This approach hurt my enjoyment of the picture because gone was the heart and soul of the first film, which is what truly made it special. Jonah Hill and (especially) Channing Tatum are on point and as hilarious as ever, but the central bro-mantic bond can't be taken seriously, and neither can the light, crime plot that while shifted in setting from High School to College, is pretty much an incoherent case of been there, done that. There's little in the way of pay-off when the baddies are brought down by our unlikely heroes; something the first film had in spades. Make no mistake. "22 Jump Street" is a funny movie. A really funny movie. Even hilarious occasionally. In this regard it's a worthwhile time at the movies. Hard to look past is it's rampant, snarky, insincerity which is no more evident than in the film's riotously self-aware credits montage about the state of Hollywood sequels. It'd be a great piece of satire if this franchise wasn't busy trying to set itself up as a part of the problem.
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22 Jump Street Quotes
- Improv Student:
- Ok,we're going to need an audience suggestion. What is something that we would be hungry for and looking to eat?
- Jenko:
- Tampons!
- Schmidt:
- CYN-THEE-UH. Cynthia.
- Zook:
- Are we wearing the same puka shell necklace?
- Jenko:
- Dude, same pukas
- Schmidt:
- Man, What did you say back there?
- Jenko:
- Something Cool
- Schmidt:
- Yeah, what did you say?
- Jenko:
- Something Cool man
- Schmidt:
- Yeah, but what did you say
- Jenko:
- I said something cool
- Schmidt:
- I wanna sit in bed and watch Friends all day.
- Jenko:
- I thought we had Cate Blanchett with the budget.
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