21 Jump Street: a remake worth the watch

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2012)

Given that this film is just another in a long line of Hollywood remakes that don't need to be remade, as well as it coming from directorial duo Chris Miller and Phil Lord whose only previous feature is the questionable Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, it is safe to say that I was feeling pretty dubious on entering the cinema. However I emerged at the end feeling more than pleasantly surprised with what turned out to be a fun, fresh and hilarious buddy-cop movie that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Once natural enemies in high school, jock Jenko (Channing Tatum) and nerd Schmidt (Jonah Hill) find themselves together in police academy and decide to form a mutually beneficial relationship in order to pass their exams. It's the classic exchange, Jenko needs Schmidt's brains and Schmidt needs help in the physical department. Upon graduating, the pair make a spectacular cock up of their first arrest and consequently land themselves in the 21 Jump Street programme. For those who have heard anything about the TV show will know that the programme specialises in young looking cops going undercover to unearth youth crime in high schools and the like. The pair are understandably critical of their new posts (who wants to go through high school more than once?) and the film is humorously self-referential making fun of itself when the operations' leader (Ice Cube) rants that the unit is a just rehashed plan from the 80′s because the higher ups couldn't come up with anything better. Just like Hollywood!
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