Just like last time

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2016)

After the critical and commercial success of 21 Jump Street here is the inevitable sequel with a bigger budget, bigger sets and more bromance.
22 Jump Street is just across the road from 21 Jump Street but this station is more hi tech. The duo of Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) go back on the Jump Street program to work for the angry and shouty Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) but this time they go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a drug known as 'WHYPHY' that killed a college student photographed buying it on campus.
The film makes a lot of references to the plotting of the previous film as if the film is making a statement that sequels tend to be a rehash of the original and not as good. In essence 22 Jump Street is a retread of the first film with this time jokes about how old they look as college students.
Still the film is enjoyable enough, the gags still make you laugh, the cast seem to be having fun, there are enough action set pieces that some to be parodying the Fast and Furious films.
The end credits scenes is inspired as they go through future sequel ideas including a cameo from another star from the original television series leading to the poster for Generations: Jump Street.