21 Jump Street Review

                     Let's face it-----no one wanted this. Now it's here, being shown on the big screen and now here's my obligatory review of the new comedy based off the cop drama of the same name 21 Jump Street. To be quite honest, I was very skeptical about what was to come of this film as well. Honestly, it impressed me. Without giving any jokes or punchlines away (since 95 percent of them work), I will say that 21 Jump Street is comic gold in the most sickly twisted way imaginable.

                  In the film, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill play Jenko and Schmidt. Ever since high school, these two were enemies. That is, until both discover the other's awesome talents when it comes to cop training. Now they're best buds. After a failed attempt at an arrest, Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) sends them down to 21 Jump Street. There is a very funny line involving the fact that they get recruited here by Offerman, but I choose not to spoil it for you. Down on Jump Street, Jenko and Schmidt have to go back to high school to take down a supplier of the latest drug craze. Eco-friendly Eric (Dave Franco) is the main suspect, but there's more to this case than meets the eye.

             While Tatum and Hill are the biggest laugh inducers in the film and have excellent chemistry together, everyone gets at least a couple of scenes in which they make you laugh out loud. Whether it be Ellie Kemper as the sexy science teacher with the hots for Jenko or Chris Parnell as the geeky drama teacher who doesn't trust Schmidt, everyone gets a laugh here or there. Also, the film points out all the stupid cop cliches we see in every cop film. 21 Jump Street also knows what it wants to be, and ends up being a great version of what it wants to be-a cop buddy film making fun of cop buddy films. 21 Jump Street is gold no matter which way you slice it, and is bound to be my vote for the funniest film of the year come December.

(4 and 1/2 out of 5 stars, the film is rated R for crude and sexual content throughout, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking, and some violence.)