21 Jump Street

I think the guys who produced this may have been very drunk and started reminiscing about old classics. This one is a feature length version of the cop show in the late-80s which launched Johnny Depp on his road to success, which might explain his late cameo at the end which I wonder how many millions he got paid to do! A very much immature but lovable film starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill not a mix I would have expected. I wasn't expecting much out of Channing Tatum for a role like this seeing as I can only think of him in the uber chic flick Dear John but he proved me wrong!

Mortal enemies in school, as Jump Street mocks several stereotypes Tatum, the obvious fit for a jock and Hill the nerd, but then classically in a police academy kind of fashion they join forces to help each other out, Hill doing the brainy stuff and Tatum helping him to work out.

It is genuinely a really good comedy, some of things just have you laughing till it hurts. The pair start out their career as cops on bicycle's busting kids for feeding the ducks and rescuing Frisbees from the tree's, how ridiculous is that. After being the worst cops imaginable arresting people without knowing the Miranda Rights, they get sent to high school as under cover cops for being young and stupid, where they must infiltrate a drug ring. In high school, however, they learn things aren't quite the way they remember and Hill ends up being the cool kid, in a very environmentally friendly kind of place where Tatum's guns won't help him out!

My Rating: 8/10

Directors: Chris Miller, Phil Lord    Cast: Brie Larson, Channing Tatum, Dave Franco, Ice Cube, Johnny Depp, Jonah Hill, Rob Riggle