Jump Street

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2020)

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21 Jump Street is an action packed comedy that manages to keep you on your toes while still making everything ridiculously funny. Directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, executed a well thought out film that had me at the edge of my seat one second and the next I was cracking up with laughter. The film was very easy to understand and follow along with throughout the whole plot. This movie would be perfect to gather up some friends, sit down, and get ready to laugh along with this exciting, comical movie.
The film starts out with both Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) in high school. It is made very obvious that they don't get along but after college they realize they can help each other with their weaknesses and become best friends to pass police training. They are later assigned to go undercover at a nearby high school to find a drug dealer and stop him, but Schmidt starts to get caught up in the popularity he never had in his high school experience. Tension starts between Jenko and Schmidt and they have to relive all the drama they had left behind.
The acting in this film is very spot on in almost all the situations the actors are out through. At one point in the film, Schmidt and Jenko are forced to ingest drugs. Tatum and Hill portray the scene very well and makes the audience think that they are actually on drugs. The emotions displayed by the actors seem to be very sincere and make you feel like you are almost included in the film. It has been known before that both Tatum and Hill are amazing actors considering all the other major roles in movies they have played such as leading roles in Magic Mike, She's the Man, Superbad, and The Wolf of Wall Street. The pair are an unlikely duo but make the movie turn out great with their differences.
The good things in this movie definitely outweigh the bad things. Some things to consider is that it most likely wouldn't appeal to anyone under the age of 17 because of the humor and rating. The film could manage to offend almost anyone if it wasn't taken light heartedly based off of all the crude jokes and slang. Some of the pros of the film were the classic stereotypes of action movies such as having a dramatic explosion, which it did have after the characters joked about the fact that they thought there would be an explosion. The sarcasm and irony of the film really pulls it all together in the end to perfectly mix the drama, action, and comedy in the movie so that one doesn't outweigh the others.
21 Jump Street is definitely a movie I could watch over and over again with my friends and still laugh about it, even though I know what is going to happen. It's funny, entertaining, exciting, and overall a people pleaser of a movie. If you're looking for a quality action comedy movie, 21 Jump Street is the perfect movie for you.