21 Jump Street

2012 Action/Adventure | Suspense/Thriller | Comedy
69%

Schmidt and Jenko are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school.As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind.

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21 Jump Street

The jury is still out on Channing Tatum. Believable when kicking someone's head in (A Guide To Recognising Your Saints, Fighting, Haywire), not so much when he's asked to be the romantic sort (Dear John, The Vow), you can count on one hand how many times he's attempted straight up comedy. The man has genuine charisma but it slips every now and then; this remake of the TV series that set Johnny Depp on the road to superstardom sees Tatum veering from perfect comic timing to poor delivery of gags that go clang. Loudly. When he is on form, though, he and Hill cook up a heady brew.

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