Review of 22 Jump Street (2014) by Lanky Man P — 06 Feb 2015

It had to happen, 21 Jump Street (2012) managed to be a very good comedy against all the odds, and the cast return as do directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who had a massive success earlier this year with The Lego Movie (2014).

It's a good sequel, and it even pokes fun at the whole repetitiveness of sequels. It might actually be a superior film to the first film, and there's a lot of laughs. After their successful undercover work at 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are back on the police force, but that doesn't last long after a bungled drugs bust.

So they're sent back to Jump Street, under the command of Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), and they go undercover in college as students looking for a very deadly drug called "WHYPHY". Jenko makes friends with jocks Zook (Wyatt Russell) and Rooster (Jimmy Tatro), a lifestyle Schmidt doesn't approve of, and he ends up in a relationship with art student Maya (Amber Stevens).

Their differing lifestyles puts both Schmidt and Jenko at loggerheads, until they finally get a break, literally! It's a very silly film, poking fun at the traditions of college, it has some good action sequences on display as well, including an action packed last third during Spring Break in Mexico.

It leaves the door open for more films, but they don't really need to, as the end credits have already sorted that one out for us all.