The reasons behind seeing this movie can be divided into three categories:
1. You were a dedicated fan of the late eighties early nineties TV series staring Johnny Depp.
2. You have an unhealthy obsession with Police Themed Movies.
3. Channing Tatum.
As it so happens with me, two out of three of these categories can be applied to myself. Team Tatum-Hill is not something I would have ever thought possible or workable but in this rare instant I am happy to be somewhat mistaken.
Nothing except being unfortunate enough to not to attend their senior prom is the only thing that links Eminem wannabe Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and hippy-jock Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum). When they meet again years later in Police Academy they push their petty high-school instinctual chain of command logic to the back burner to help each other pass in the academy. Though they pass the first step of become a full fledged police officers their overeagerness to become full fledged heroes falls short and it doesn't take long for them to screw up and they are shipped off to work for a special division. Location? 21 Jump Street.
Their first task is to infiltrate a high school, every losers nightmare and every jocks dream, but times have changed and the generations have evolved. Lucky for us Dave Franco who plays Mr Popular, Eric provides refreshing characteristics of the otherwise stereotypical mundane and frankly overdone persona of every american high school teenager.
The films ending gave way to a very clear intention of a sequel and I say why not. The movie was comical on both an obvious laugh out loud level as well as a fifth grade intellectual level. Quirks, Quips and Quite frankly refreshing humour is something I look forward to witnessing again.
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