It's a surprising fact that '21 Jump Street' is one of the better films of the year--it is not sophisticated nor technically great--it is a rather enjoyable and compelling fun ride which commands you not to think about how technically good it is, but how fun your experience was instead. I was ambivalent, even, when I first saw the trailer. What it felt was then is that it is going to be a raunchy comedy and it was. It was a raunchy comedy, oh I forgot to mention, "wild". I saw it on theaters recently (and yes, I'm feeling the benefit of being a movie blogger, first-screenings you can grab 'em with ease) and I was surprised by the outcome of the film. It was a witty decision to take pleasure in its own silliness, because if it didn't, it would have been less compelling than a 90's sitcom with guns and car chases.
'Jump Street' is a movie made by having fun with it. And sometimes that translate to a better movie.
Jenko (Channing Tatum, 'Haywire') and Schmidt (Jonah Hill, 'Superbad'), although had the same hate toward each other, hate high school. The former's hatred is caused by his restriction from attending in their Prom Night and the latter's is caused by pretty much everything. Seven years later, they enrolled in a police academy and found their weaknesses. Jenko being academically empty-brain and Schmidt being physically empty-muscled. With the usual visitations of their cleverness, they thought that if they would help each other, they would graduate the academy with ease.
They graduated but alas, all they ended up doing was doing rounds in the park. And when opportunity for their first arrest came knocking on their doors, they fail due to their utterly forgetful minds.As a result, they were assigned undercover as students to gather info about drug dealing in a high school even though Jenko's biceps kept on flexing "like a 40 year old", as everyone kept on saying. The duo (to refrain myself from spoiling things to you) must "infiltrate the dealers and identify the supplier", that's what their enraged officer kept on yelling, or at least that's what I recalled him yelling.
Sometimes idiocy translate to ingenious; and the rest of the times, it does not. And I believe that this recent Jonah Hill, decides to be the latter. It is not your chest-tightening funny, punchline-fest and breathtakingly hilarious comedy but it is a rather cheap one. It is a pile of weirdly working cheap jokes sandwiched with Hill's loveable aura and Tatum's on-screen charisma on one slice, and the other slice of the sandwich is the directing duo: Phil Lord and Chris Miller ('Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs').
It was at the same time weirdly and quickly funny. There was one riveting car chase sequences in which an oil tank doesn't explode; instead it was something non-flammable that does. It was inexplicably gigglish on my part, albeit I really predict what was going to happen exactly. It was vague, and I admit that this review is too. It was simply and plainly, vaguely funny.
With the right amounts of slapstick and wordplay, and the frequent popping out of YouTube-inspired transitions, 'Jump Street' may not the best comedy film there is, but it sure is one delicious treat to munch on.
It was at the same time weirdly and quickly funny. There was one riveting car chase sequences in which an oil tank doesn't explode; instead it was something non-flammable that does. It was inexplicably gigglish on my part, albeit I really predict what was going to happen exactly. It was vague, and I admit that this review is too. It was simply and plainly, vaguely funny.
With the right amounts of slapstick and wordplay, and the frequent popping out of YouTube-inspired transitions, 'Jump Street' may not the best comedy film there is, but it sure is one delicious treat to munch on.
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