Pjtaylor-96-138044 '21 Jump Street (2012)' is an infectiously fun, downright hilarious comedy reboot of a 1980s TV show and is surprisingly good, ending up a real treat and a truly great time from beginning to end. It never takes its self seriously enough for its slightly silly core conceit to even be close to questionable within its own world and all the people involved clearly put so much passion in that it ends up exuding an energy that will put a smile on your face throughout. It also makes sure to build its characters enough that you really care about them and manages to satirise the genre in an incredibly satisfying way. It's certainly one of the best comedies in recent memory. 8/10

DBLurker Go watch "The Other Guys" is you want a good funny cop movie.21 Jump Street is just average. Now I've not seen the TV show it's based on (will do now, knowing Depp is the lead) but I am gonna just throw a wild guess that Depp is far better at acting than Jonah Hill.Seriously, the guy isn't funny. Even Tatum has better comedic timing and expressions than Hill.Average movie. Didn't HATE it, but it wasn't exactly "hilarious".

merelyaninnuendo 21 Jump StreetIts the same old buddy-cop movie with all the clichéd things like conflicts between partners, same old characters and same old case but they have rebooted it for the younger generation and they have done it with a style.

Tweekums This action-comedy opens back in 2005 where we are introduced to protagonists Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko while they are still at school. Schmidt is hard working but definitely not cool enough to get a pretty girl to go to the prom with him; Greg is athletic and considered cool but his academic record is so bad he is banned from attending the prom. Cutting to 2012 they have both joined the police; it isn't what they expected though; first they are given the job of patrolling a park on bicycles… a job they manage to make a mess of. They are then transferred to 21 Jump Street, a programme to put young undercover cops into high schools. Their task is to find out who is behind the production of a new synthetic drug that has already killed one student. They are given student profiles fitted to their individual skills; unfortunately they prepare so poorly that they don't bother learning their undercover names and end up having to try to be plausible playing the other's role.This film was much better than I expected; there were lots of genuinely hilarious moments as well as some surprisingly good action. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have a great chemistry as Schmidt and Jenko; they provided plenty of laughs throughout; they may have looked a bit old for high school students but that wasn't really a problem, after most high school films cast people who are much older than their characters… at least here the characters are actually meant to be older. The rest of the cast is pretty solid too; notably Ice Cube, as the gruff Captain Dickson; Brie Larson who plays Molly, a girl Schmidt gets involved with and Rob Riggle, as PE teacher Mr. Walters. The comedy won't be to everybody's taste but I thought it was hilarious for the most part; it certainly didn't go quite as far into gross out territory as many recent comedies… the one possible exception to this is a scene where a bad guy becomes 'less of a man' after being shot in the groin then tries to pick up what he lost with his teeth! Hilarious? Disturbing? Disgusting? You decide! Overall I'd certainly recommend this to viewers wanting a good laugh with some decent action.