![]() ![]() ![]() Caring about schoolwork is cool, drama club is cool, and picking on a gay kid isn’t. The enviro-nerd (Dave Franco) is king of the cool kids. And high school has changed in the seven years since they graduated. Schmidt is now the alleged jock, Jenko the brains. Jenko is set to slide back into the Prom King status he enjoyed just a few years before, with Schmidt doomed to relive his chemistry whiz nobody liked years - “Embrace your stereotypes!”īut the idiots botch their assumed identities. Nobody will suspect them, the chief assures them. And being, as the captain in charge (Ice Cube) puts it, “Justin-Bieber/Miley Cyrus-looking,” they’re naturals for the revival of an old program - putting baby-faced cops back into high school to hunt down the dealers and suppliers of a deadly new drug - HFS. Jenko used to pick on Schmidt.īut when they help each other get through the police academy, they become best buds. ![]() Poor Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was the insecure, unathletic brainiac who always choked when the chips were down - asking a girl to the prom, for instance. In high school, he was the popular, handsome jock who “didn’t learn a thing” during his years there. “They always cut away on TV before they finish!” Jenko (Channing Tatum) complains. New to the force, they haven’t even memorized the Miranda Rights speech. The cute young cops here aren’t Tiger Beat cute the way Depp and co-stars like Holly Robinson and Peter DeLuise were. And it is, a raunchy, violent and potty-mouthed farce that straddles the middle ground between “Starsky & Hutch” and “Superbad.” It’s “Project X” with pistols. You’d expect a big screen version of “21 Jump Street,” the TV series that made Johnny Depp famous, to be a joke. Now, that teen friendly cop show has been updated and unleashed in the post “Hangover” era - when no joke is out of bounds, no language is too profane, no riff on drugs or sex is too extreme. It was a simpler time, when Johnny Depp was new to Tiger Beat, when hair metal still ruled the airwaves and when Fox was an infant TV network with a bare handful of series - “The Simpsons,” “America’s Most Wanted” and this silly cop confection called “21 Jump Street.” ![]()
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