Their superior officer, Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) announces this weirdly similar assignment in the manner of a jaded Hollywood executive who is hardly able to believe that the first story has spawned a new one.Īnd when Schmidt and Jenko report for duty at another disguised disused church, across the road from the old one, their commander is once again Captain Dickson, played by Ice Cube, who is just as scornful of his team, but thrilled at the fact that their HQ is now kitted out with all sorts of pointlessly flashy furnishings. They must go in deep, posing as undergrads to … to root out drug dealers. Now Schmidt and Jenko return, and the idea is that they have graduated to college. The first movie was based on the 1980s TV show with Johnny Depp, where the premise was taken reasonably straight in the film it is played for laughs and kidulthood satire.
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back as the appalling Schmidt and Jenko, two grown men in their late 20s who are police officers co-opted into a top-secret undercover division, posing as teenagers in high school to root out drug dealers. Reading on mobile? Watch the trailer here. It features a line about Cate Blanchett which pretty much justifies the price of admission on its own. There is sometimes something inspired in its screwball craziness. Here, on the other hand, is a movie that made me feel guilty for laughing quite so much. Reviewers' noses too often wrinkle up at comedies – unless, of course, burdened with darkness or surrealism – while horror and superhero pictures, no matter how moderate, are greeted with cowed respect.
In all its uncompromising goofiness, 22 Jump Street brings onstream a sugar-rush of entertainment. It certainly provides that rarest of things: relaxing enjoyment.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (from The Lego Movie) direct, and the screenplay is by Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman, from a story devised by Bacall and Jonah Hill. This it does by breaking out the gags, the stunts and the cheekily self-aware riffs like there's absolutely no tomorrow. C ould it be the Godfather II of bromance action-comedy sequels? 22 Jump Street is the outrageous and very immature follow-up to 21 Jump Street, proving that the next in the franchise series doesn't need to be awful.
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