The transfer from the small to the big screen is a tradition almost as boring as the remake or the sequel, and as with them, it has been made in recent years with a variable, but in most cases a negative, result. With the same success (even worse), American action comedies are emerging, and therefore most likely to "21 Jump Street" - a movie that collects the two in one - most people will approach a reserved, if they decide to give him any chance at all. And this is definitely going to be a mistake, as this is one of really fun and fresh comedy.
The story is as follows: Schmidt and Jenko are representatives of the two primordial, eternally warring American high school types - clogged zubers and popular but stupid sportsmen - who fall together in the police academy where circumstances and mutual benefit make them best friends. Soon the two found that work as a park-wagon patrol was not what they had dreamed of, and their inadequate attempt to make a large arrest sent them to 21 Jump Street, where they came under the cover of a young cop. Their new task is seemingly easy - to pretend to be high school students and to reveal the drug network that spreads a new, dangerous drug - only Schmidt and Jenko find that things at school are not as simple as they remember and that this time they will be far away more difficult to shake, especially since they are exchanging their new identities for fools.
At the synopsis level, the film is quite similar to its prototype - the 80th Street Police Drama Series "21 Jump Street" (now known mostly by turning Johnny Depp into a teen idol) - but the idea of policemen working undercover in schools , colleges and other places with predominantly youthful presence, is generally their only touch point. Because the film's authors have taken (I dare to say) a rather intelligent decision not to just make a gaming copy of the series but to take on their own, action-oriented, simple-comedic direction, simultaneously paying tribute to the teen-comedy genre and so- "Buddy cop" thrillers. This approach is in itself good, but as we have been persuading (in Starsky and Hutch, for example), that is not enough. One of the strongest aspects of "21 Jump Street" is that under all the stupid jokes, which among other things can come a little bit more to the more conservative audience and under all the beautifully performed, entertaining and self-aware genre, action, is the "true" story of Schmidt and Jenko, whose destiny we really care about. Their genuine, often soft relationships and problems are the bond that keeps the film from becoming another hollow parody or another "bromance".
This achievement is a result of Michael Bacol's screenplay and the directing of Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who are the authors of the wonderful Cloud with Meatballs) as well as the performances of the actors and especially the main couple Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. And while Hill has repeatedly demonstrated his comedic talent (and his latest Oscar nomination and dramatic nomination), and his excellent handling of the role is no surprise, Tatum can not say the same. Not to believe a man, here he produces real acting talents (something we have not seen in any of his previous films) and his typical wooden and clumsy style fits perfectly to Jenko's role and the overall comedic rhythm of the film. It is definitely one of the big surprises. Of course,"21 Jump Street" has its own minuses that go hand in hand with the form and which do not need to be highlighted - fans of such films will not take them into consideration, but those who don't like this kind of comedies, they will be the smallest problem. Finally, I repeat that the plot and the trailers of the film do not portray it in its true light, and you have to give it a chance to make sure that under all the seemingly non-originals that emanate from the advertising campaign lies a really fresh and entertaining comedy.
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There is a significant number of people, potential viewers, which looking at the film with a beaten plot immediately seek to brand it as a kind of purely negative result. Tomato juice was invented long before the beginning of the conscious life of any of us, but nothing prevents the producers from deriving its new consistencies. To what this sensible impulse tends to guess uncomplicated, "21 Jump Street" is a fresh, updated look at the established concepts. Phil Lord, Chris Miller - guys with very big eggs in a duel for the title of the kings of modern comedy.
We have before us an example of a narrative mechanism imprisoned to perfection. Dynamic development, genuine concentration on transitions, quality of performance, emotional diversity and convincing involvement of images in the storyline. When a certain subgenre becomes obsolete over a long period, and after long post-analytical terms forms its ideal model in individual heads, someone takes up its embodiment. Lord and Miller, based on Hollywood's many years of filmmaking experience, took and shot a perfect sample of the story of two unlucky guys, full of opposites, with everyday social problems that turn out to be friends in one harness. The mainstream is at its best.
Tatum issues a performance of a level that his last five works combined do not. Hill returns to the popular in the past image of the "Superbad". The first and second reach an incredible level of interpersonal relationships, when heroes not only discuss chemistry, but also show it.
Comedy is a complex genre. Among the masses of directorial merits of special mention, Lord and Miller are worthy for understanding the essence and value of each individual episode. Exquisite and sophisticated opportunities are used with great calculation for the rendering of this or that effect. There is nothing surprising in that the Western press and critics have fallen in love with the film - every second of the story time, it remembers that a real comedy does not happen without a real drama.
Might be my favorite comedy movie. It feels like this comedy duo is on to something with their recipe.
Also there was a possibility of a man in black and 21 jump street crossover. Where is it Hollywood?
I want to see this duo fight some alien drug dealer :D
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A very funny film, thanks to this I started noticing that Channing Tatum wasn't as bad as I previously thought, I found he has very good range of acting and he was very good along with Jonah in this and in the sequel ("22 Jump Street"). Keep up the reviews, I enjoy a lot reading them!