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It’s a 90-second riot that perfectly sums up the movie’s thesis: Sequels are ridiculous, so let’s have fun with it. 22.jump.street
Let’s be real for a second. When 21 Jump Street hit theaters in 2012, nobody expected it to be good. We all braced for a cynical cash grab cashing in on '80s nostalgia. Instead, we got the funniest buddy-cop movie in a decade.
If you have seen 22 Jump Street , you know. If you haven’t, stop reading and go watch it right now. What’s your favorite moment: The venomous beach scene,
So, when 22 Jump Street dropped in 2014, the expectations were sky-high. How do you follow a miracle? You don’t. Instead, you blow up the formula, laugh at it, and then set the ashes on fire.
22 Jump Street shouldn’t work. It’s a sequel to a reboot of a property nobody cared about. But by embracing its own absurdity, it becomes a rare beast: a comedy sequel that is just as good—arguably better —than the original. Let’s be real for a second
Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are back. After their success at high school, the police department... sends them to college. That’s it. The movie literally hangs a lantern on it in the first five minutes.