22 Jump Street

Rating: 9/10 (6 July 2014)

Since I am a current college student I thoroughly enjoyed this movie with all of the fairly accurate typical stereotypes it contained. The movie takes place at a college where two police officers (Channing Tatum and Noah Hill) go undercover as fellow students in order to find a drug dealer. Their vulgar boss (Ice Cube) has his two officers try to locate a "whyphy" drug dealer. Whyphy, or "work hard yes, play hard yes," makes the college student intensely focus for four hours and then progresses to the student tripping for four hours. Within the film there are several side stories, such as romance and friendship, which almost overwhelm the main theme of locating the criminal. 22 Jump Street is filled with many hilarious every day comical antics that everyone is able to relate. The bromance between Hill and Tatum is threatened by another "dude." Hill begins a relationship with a young lady who has some rather interesting relatives. This movie is full of all sorts of twists that keep the viewers on their toes. Nobody is as they seem and juicy secrets are exposed as the plot develops. Although there are quite a bit of chasing scenes and violent fighting scenes with guns, there really is not a lot of blood in the film as opposed to the average action/drug movie. If you are not into a lot of blood and gore in a motion picture, but still like to watch a good fight scene, then this film is for you. There is a lot of appropriate "inappropriate" language throughout the film. In college it is almost impossible to not hear bad language, making the inappropriate language sound quite appropriate. The music was amazingly perfect for the story. Most of the music was very upbeat and very popular at college parties. After watching the movie I felt a strong urge to go to a crazy outdoor "spring break/summertime party." This was definitely one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. Go out and watch it! It is totally worth seeing in the movie theater.