Should Be Rated R-14

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2012)

That's my new designation for movies restricted to young minds under the age of 14. "21 Jump Street" is one of the most sophomoric, inept movies I have seen in a long while. The screenplay was almost incoherent and the script was loaded with as many obscenities and vulgarities as you can find in a 112 minute picture, presumably to substitute for actual dialogue and humor.
You know what? I never learn. I keep attending current movies after reading some reviews on our website, and more often than not I am bitterly disappointed. If culture and the arts are cyclical and a series of peaks and valleys, we are now in the deepest valley in history. The NY times Book Review section is thinner than ever, no one writes operas or any other kind of good music, modern architecture is an aesthetic wasteland and motion pictures are worse than ever.
And so, I think this old fuddy-duddy will stick to the Turner Classic Movie station and FMC from now on and wait for an artistic upswing.