I loved it. It had me laughing through the entire movie.

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2012)

21 Jump Street. Now I've seen a lot of Jonah Hill movies, from Superbad to Accepted and Get Him to the Greek, but this one has to be one of his best. Though Superbad was basically the main movie you'll know him for, 21 Jump Street definitely can be another milestone in his career. Even though people have been standing by the whole, "He was only funny because he was fat" thing, Hill makes a great character. Channing Tatum also does a good job in the film, being the polar opposite to Hill in almost every way. I have only seen Tatum in The Vow, and I like him in that one too, being the big muscular guy with a big heart. Here, Tatum puts on a more silly, college student role and it suits him well, though he is huge and nobody would actually believe he is in high school.
The movie had me laughing pretty hard most of the time. You get a back-story for Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) as they both fail at high school and become cops. Then things go bad one day on patrol and they get sent to do an undercover high school drug-bust because they look like kids in high school. The drug circling the school is called HFS, and Schmidt and Jenko have to find the supplier to stop it from getting to other schools. This gets ridiculous as we follow the duo's tactics for finding said supplier. One of which requires the both of them to actually take the drug and still try to focus whilst in class, and another results in a car chase across town in a pink Volkswagen buggy. The movie is pleasantly silly and had just the right amount of ridiculousness. Obviously stuff like this wouldn't happen in real life, but who goes to the movies to see real life? The only actual problem I had was with the love story that ensued between Schmidt and Molly Tracey (Brie Larson). Schmidt does look like he is in high school, but he graduated, as the movie suggests, in 2005. The movie is set seven years later, so Schmidt has to be at least 25 years old. Throughout the movie, he gets attached to Molly and ends up asking her to prom and making out with her, and this whole time I kept asking myself if a 25 year old would really do that with someone who is still in high school. It wasn't stated that Molly was graduating any time soon, so she could be 16 or 17 at that time. It's silly for that to bother me, but it did not in any way lessen the experience I had watching this movie.
In conclusion: The movie was great. The characters all worked well together. I liked them all and didn't get tired of anyone. The comedy wasn't just the same joke stretched throughout the entire movie, and it never got stale. Looking back, I keep chuckling at certain scenes from the film, and that's what a comedy is supposed to do. I'd give it a 9 out of 10.
Also, Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise make a hilarious return from their 1987 television series 21 Jump Street to this movie as the same characters, and I couldn't help but marvel at how awesome that was.