21 Jump Street Review

2012-03-30T16:49:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my first review where I will be giving my thoughts on 21 Jump Street staring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatun.

In this film Jonah Hill plays as Schmidt who went through school being bullied and dressed like Slim Shady, during his time at school he was bullied by none other than Channing Tatum's character Jenko who was more of a Jock type. After they both graduated they went on to the police force where they became partners and friends, they had hopes of being big time cops chasing bad guys only to end up on bikes patrolling a park. They are soon transferred to a undercover unit where they must infiltrate a high school to take down a drug ring who was supplying students was synthetic drugs.

There are more than a few laughs in this film with quite a few of them coming from Channing Tatums character in fact I believe he was holding the movie together with some of his lines but don't get me wrong Jonah Hill had some good gags too but nothing you wouldn't already expect from him. Channing Tatum surprised me at how well he could undertake a comedic role as from what I know he's more known for his weepy eyed romance films (not to say there bad, its just nice to see something different) and I think he pulled it off quite well.

There was an unexpected cameo from a certain person towards the end of the film which was a nice surprise and after reading in the end credits that this film was based off of a TV show (which I hadn't known before hand) I later had a watch of the first episode to see what it was like and found it quite interesting but not comical like the film.

Overall I think it was a great comedy and was good at keeping the audience entertained throughout, I would like to see Channing Tatum doing more comedy roles and for Jonah Hill to keep doing what he does best and making us all laugh.

Favorite Scene-Motorway chase scene where Schmidt and Jenko are being chased by some drug dealers on Motorbikes and 3 possible explosions.

Favorite quote- Schmidt: "I really thought that was going to explode."

Sexual Content- 2/5
Profanity- 3/5
Violence- 3/5

Overall Rating- 8/10

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21 Jump Street Review