Film Review: 22 Jump Street
16th June 2014
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★★★★☆
Up until now in 2014, the film with the most laughs has actually been Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's animated family feature The Lego Movie. It is no real surprise that Lord and Miller's newest live-action offering, follow-up to 2012's 21 Jump Street, claims the title of best comedy of the year thus far. 22 Jump Street bears similarities to many other comedy sequels, mainly due to the fact that the plot is essentially a carbon copy of its predecessor. We again see Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill infiltrate an education establishment - this time a college - in order to find the supplier of a narcotic that has caused the death of a student. However, Lord and Miller succeed where other directors have failed; while the film is set to the backdrop of an all-too-familiar scenario, the jokes are fresh and the movie is hilariously self-aware of its sequel status. After a foray against a gang of drug dealers, the film opens with Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) telling Jenko and Schmidt that "nobody gave a shit about the Jump Street reboot, but you got lucky: this department has invested a lot of money to make sure Jump Street keeps going." This kind of commentary seems to be a one-off joke to kick things off, just as it was in the first film, but the meta-nature of the movie only grows, and brilliantly so. Our lead characters worry about the budget of their mission as they race through the college campus during a car chase and Ice Cube's Captain Dickson works in an office that itself resembles a cube of ice. This culminates in an extended end credits sequence, which is as funny as it is satirical, that pokes fun at the need in Hollywood for endless sequels and tie-in merchandise.- Article continues below...
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