Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, DeRay Davis and Ice Cube. Written by Michael Bacall, Jonah Hill et al and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
From the trailers itself, 21 Jump Street seems to be a fun ride. And it won't fall below your expectations. At times, it is rib tickling hilarious. At some instances, it takes a matured turn to steer the story to higher strata without ever getting stained with melodrama. 21 Jump Street is about two young boys who have some issues in high school - one is a cool dude (Jenko played by Tatum) who barely makes to graduation and is not allowed to attend the prom thanks to his abysmal grades and the other is a nerd (Schmidt played by Hill) whose pitifully low self-confidence makes him choke when he asks a girl for prom and needless to say is rejected.
I had issues in high school, so did you and all of your school mates. And as we grow older, we philosophize our petty troubles and term them as experiences because this is all we can do. 21 Jump Street is a movie about chance for redemption. After a shaky start to their police careers, Schmidt and Jenko are relocated to a new office and given a task to attend a high school as students to track and bust an expanding drug nexus in teenagers.
All of a sudden, Schmidt and Jenko have to face the anxiety and terror of being a teenager, and that of a high school student, again. Schmidt and Jenko are more fun and relevant only because they are grounded to their weaknesses like all humans instead of being instilled with some philosophical idea of "desperation to grow." Nobody ever grows because they want to. We grow when time wants us to grow.
Little has happened in their lives to make Schmidt and Jenko vulnerable to a change till they face their fears all over again, quite literally. They are back in high school. Schmidt has a crush and Jenko has to attend an advanced Chemistry class when all he knows is "Chemistry is about pictures and stuff." I believe that the happenings never forced Schmidt and Jenki to change. The time has changed and so is the peer mentality which simply made the nerdy Schmidt look like a cool dude whereas Jenki somewhat of a "douche."
The hullabaloo accompanied by their under cover mission is quite hilarious and the core of the comedy. But there is slightly more to this film and I believe it slowly grows on you as you leave the theater. There are some deepest of our fears that we have to voluntarily face and conquer. And that's what Schmidt did when he asked out his crush to go to prom with him and that's what Jenko did when he finally "used his brains" to some effect. In the beginning, both Jenko and Schmidt were left out of the prom for different reasons, but believe me I am revealing nothing when I say they both go to the prom in the climax in dashing Tuxedos and white limo with doves flying out the door.
I had issues in high school, so did you and all of your school mates. And as we grow older, we philosophize our petty troubles and term them as experiences because this is all we can do. 21 Jump Street is a movie about chance for redemption. After a shaky start to their police careers, Schmidt and Jenko are relocated to a new office and given a task to attend a high school as students to track and bust an expanding drug nexus in teenagers.
All of a sudden, Schmidt and Jenko have to face the anxiety and terror of being a teenager, and that of a high school student, again. Schmidt and Jenko are more fun and relevant only because they are grounded to their weaknesses like all humans instead of being instilled with some philosophical idea of "desperation to grow." Nobody ever grows because they want to. We grow when time wants us to grow.
Little has happened in their lives to make Schmidt and Jenko vulnerable to a change till they face their fears all over again, quite literally. They are back in high school. Schmidt has a crush and Jenko has to attend an advanced Chemistry class when all he knows is "Chemistry is about pictures and stuff." I believe that the happenings never forced Schmidt and Jenki to change. The time has changed and so is the peer mentality which simply made the nerdy Schmidt look like a cool dude whereas Jenki somewhat of a "douche."
The hullabaloo accompanied by their under cover mission is quite hilarious and the core of the comedy. But there is slightly more to this film and I believe it slowly grows on you as you leave the theater. There are some deepest of our fears that we have to voluntarily face and conquer. And that's what Schmidt did when he asked out his crush to go to prom with him and that's what Jenko did when he finally "used his brains" to some effect. In the beginning, both Jenko and Schmidt were left out of the prom for different reasons, but believe me I am revealing nothing when I say they both go to the prom in the climax in dashing Tuxedos and white limo with doves flying out the door.
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