![]() ![]() ![]() Schmidt and Jenko are welcomed as new students only a month before prom - whatever, man. 21 Jump Street Movie franchise, serving as the co-protagonist of 21 Jump. Ice Cube plays a stereotypical angry black police captain - but don't tell it to his face. Pontiac Firebird Trans AM rocket car from the Burt Reynolds movie Hooper. ![]() Tatum looks way too old to pass for 17 - which his teachers acknowledge. In fact the impetus for this reawakening is so transparently flimsy that the movie acknowledges as much with a shrug: "They lack creativity," a deputy (Nick Offerman) tells incompetent cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when explaining why the police department is reviving "a canceled program from the '80s."Īny other objections over the premise's absurdity? 21 Jump Street will dismiss them, too. This particular edition of "Hey, you've seen this before" is based on an '80s TV series about cops who posed undercover as high school students - a show that far fewer people would remember now if it hadn't starred a young Johnny Depp. Hence the arrival of 21 Jump Street, a film that not only knows it's a remake, but knows how absurd it has to be to succeed as a remake. It was inevitable that one of Hollywood's many recent reboots would eventually attain sentience. ![]()
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