Rent 21 Jump Street (2012)
3.5 of 5 from 264 ratings
1h 45min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Former high school foes turned rookie cop partners can't catch a break - until they're assigned to pose as students and bust a drug ring inside their old alma mater. Living like teenagers again, they slip back into their adolescent selves and risk the case - and their friendship - with hysterically disastrous results!
- Actors:
- Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, DeRay Davis, Dax Flame, Chris Parnell, Ellie Kemper, Jake Johnson, Nick Offerman, Holly Robinson Peete, Johnny Pemberton, Stanley Wong, Justin Hires, Brett Lapeyrouse, Lindsey Broad, Caroline Aaron, Joe Chrest
- Directors:
- Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
- Producers:
- Stephen J. Cannell, Neal H. Moritz
- Writers:
- Michael Bacall
- Studio:
- Sony
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
- Collections:
- Back to School: Best Films Featuring Teachers, Cinema's Most Memorable Comedy Double Acts, Films & TV by topic, From Small Screen to Silver Screen: Films Based on TV, Top 10 Cycling Films, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/07/2012
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing, Hindi
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary with Directors and Cast
- Back to School
- 20 Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
- Johnny Depp on Set
- Cube-O-Rama
- Brothers in Arms
- Peter Pan on the Freeway
- The Rob Riggle Show
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Reviews (1) of 21 Jump Street
Daft Cops, Big Laughs - 21 Jump Street review by griggs
I expected throwaway buddy-cop nonsense and ended up pleasantly surprised. This reboot of 21 Jump Street isn’t just watchable, it’s a self-aware comedy that knows exactly what it is and doesn’t try to be anything more. That honestly gives it a looseness most action comedies never manage.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill make an unlikely but likeable pair, playing off Tatum’s thick-as-two-planks bravado against Hill’s more bookish awkwardness. The whole undercover-cops-back-in-sixth-form premise is ridiculous, and film wisely leans into that instead of pretending it could ever make sense. It isn't a spoof in the vein of The Naked, but a self-aware send-up that plays the genre straight while winking at its absurdities.
The gags are broad, but sharper than you'd think, with a nice line in skewering reboots, sequels and its own flimsy premise. It's not trying to be clever or important, just funny—and it succeeds. A daft idea, done with a wink, and all the better for it.
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Critic review
21 Jump Street review by Melissa Orcine - Cinema Paradiso
’21 Jump Street’ is both an 80’s TV series that introduced Johnny Depp en masse and a buddy-cop flick this 2012. The movie ’21 Jump Street’ is inspired by the original TV series, where Jump Street is an undercover police program for baby-faced officers who are asked to pretend to be high schoolers. ‘Cause there’s criminality among teens and in the movie starring Channing Tatum and Oscar nominee Jonah Hill, it’s a drug ring ran by a charming youngster (Dave Franco). How Tatum and Hill can pose as teens now in their 20s – how they became buddies even is a hardsell too – is not the only obstacle that they have to overcome. Trust me, comedies do have plot points.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’), they jump from kid-friendly animated fare to R-rated hilarity on ’21 Jump Street’. With screenwriting credit by Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill, the TV-inspired movie has been transformed into a laugh-out-loud satire on such issues as teen-dom, drugs, homophobia, et cetera, et cetera.
No holds barred, it’s a free-for-all that has hunky Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill making a case for the odd buddy-cop couple to beat. Hill is no stranger to comedy, Tatum is more of the hunky-dramatic-action star but you can’t deny Tatum can roll with the best of them (he was in the teen comedy ‘She’s the Man’ with Amanda Bynes) and it’s a bromance worth watching. Another great choice is having their bitter and angry Jump Street captain played by Ice Cube. Back in the day, Ice Cube raged against the police; in this movie, he IS the police.
In terms of comedy and one-liner zingers, ’21 Jump Street’ is refreshingly good. What was a bad idea before has been a good risk now. But the action sequences are limiting if not unimpressive, thanks to its directors inexperience shooting scenes like it. In the end, it’s really Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill’s pairing as its saving grace. I’m looking forward to having them team-up yet again for a different kind of movie next time.