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Channing Tatum
Jonah Hill
Brie Larson
Johnny Simmons
Johnny Depp
Ice Cube

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A group of young police officers control youth crime by going undercover as students in local high schools. -- Chris Kavan

05/19/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"Let's just finger each other's mouths!"

"You know what they do to handsome guy like me in prison. It Rhymes with GRAPE. It Rhymes with grape"

A couple of inept rookie cops -- chubby dork Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and a dimwitted muscular jock Jenko (Channing Tatum) are given an assignment by their straight talking Captain Dickson (Ice Cube embracing his role of the stereotypical angry black guy), to go undercover as teenagers (since they are both young-looking) to investigate the explosion of designer drugs called HFS in their high school. Their mission is to arrest the supplier and try their best to stop the spread of the drugs. Enrolled as brothers the pair soon discovers that high school has changed a lot in seven years. When Schmidt and Jenko had originally attended high school, Schmidt was the nerd and Jenko the cool prom k...

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04/28/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Jumping Good Time

The new release from Sony pictures, ’21 Jump Street’ is a comedic take on the original TV series of the same name. The premise of this film follows the same concept as the TV show, using undercover cops that pose as high school students to combat crime in the school system. However, the movie version is played strictly for laughs. If you enjoyed the previews for this, then you’ll most likely enjoy the rest of it. ’21 Jump Street’ manages to poke fun at everything from a Korean Jesus to the TV show ‘Glee’.

The film stars Jonah Hill, who seems to be everywhere these days after first getting a lot of attention in ‘Superbad’. He’s since stayed on a roll with ‘The Sitter’, ‘Get Him To The Greek’, and ‘Money Ball’ (for which he scored an Oscar nomination for his supporting role opposite Bra...

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04/23/2012 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

21 Jump Street review

Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) are former batch-mates in highschool who end up being partners in a police department. Morton is the insecure geek who couldn't get a date in the prom while Greg is the popular good looking student. Their fates would be reversed when they enter 21 Jump Street, after being assigned by Captain Dickson (Ice Cube). Soundtrack was upbeat and action was relentless. The flick reminded me of Hot Fuzz, only with more sappy moments. Ice Cube was hilarious in his role while Jonah Hill's character was wimpy but funnier than Tatum's. Screenplay was descent and cameos were a surprise since I never knew the actual casts involved. Growing up watching the TV show, this reviewer remembered the well written stories. This was simple, had a f...

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3/4