"22 Jump Street" is a rushed comedy that doesn't deliver many laughs.

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2014)

It's a squeal kinda spoofing sequels. "22 Jump Street" is the sequel to the 2012 film "21 Jump Street" where Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play undercover cops trying to investigate a drug dealer at a high school. The trailer looked absolutely hilarious, but ended for a huge disappointment. The film had a hilarious opening and ending, but a flat middle. Now in "22 Jump Street" undercover cops Jenko (Tatum) and Schmidt (Hill) investigate another drug in college. Except this time, we never have anything hilarious. We get a clever opening that was funnier in the trailer, one very uncomfortable and funny scene from Jonah Hill, an outrageous coincidence with Ice Cube and... that's about it. There's too many forced jokes that are some flat and weak and have been told millions of times. This one is structured almost identically to "21 Jump Street" which deprives us of refreshing laughs. There are long action sequences with fast humor that is just painful to watch and hardly any material for these talented comedians to work with. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller didn't work with their co-writers on making a final draft, instead the first things they wrote are what they used. We can tell! The comedy is so plane and simple and we don't even get dumb and pointless humor, which is the best! After seeing replayed jokes and extended action scenes similar o the first one, we get very tired of seeing this film try and stick it out. I will say that the spoof on the ending credits of making different Jump Street films was clever. We keep hearing Ice Cube say "You two sons of bitches are going to-" and then a various establishment where they must fight crime. There were probably 50 different Jump Streets mentioned in the credits, which I hope never get made.