Funny story that leaves you wanting more

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2014)

22 Jump Street is a funny movie geared towards the young adult minded individual. If you don't like homosexual and/or racial driven jokes, then this may not be the best choice for you. Also if you've never been to college or cannot fathom the realities of college, than you may have a hard time catching onto the puns and satirical aspects of the film. The movies plot incidentally has two climaxes in my opinion. The first one being that of Schmidt finding out that he doesn't always need Jenko by his side when they split up to hunt down two separate assailants, and the other one is when Jenko realizes that he does actually still want to work as a police officer. Both climaxes were turning points for both characters; where they each have come to self realizations about each other and how they work as a team.
Throughout the movie the theme of homo eroticism, or a more contemporary term being "bromance", is seen over and over again. Often times the homo erotic jokes get intermixed with the homosexual type ones due to the nature of both relational perspectives being so similar. I found the jokes to be hilarious because of the simplistic style that makes the viewer pick up on the subtlest forms of the jokes. And they are not short handing you when it comes to quantity either; 22 Jump Street just keeps on throwing jokes at you throughout the whole story.
I found the action to be on par of other movies designed to be purely "Action" movies, while this film is more of a hybrid of Comedy and Action. There were multiple times in the movie where the bangs were the size of ones seen in like Mission Impossible or even Transformers. Schmidt and Jenko are seen countless times running, shooting, running while shooting, and even getting into a nice fist fight towards the end. If you're a fan of ridiculously stupid that it's funny type of movies then you must definitely go check out 22 Jump Street.