They bounced off each other for an hour and a half, and the result will surely be one of the best comedies of the year, and an outside shot for my 2012 top-25(back-end)if it can hold-on.

Their characters worked exactly how they should in a buddy-cop flick like this. It just seemed a bit out of place and distasteful. The film hadn't used any of those gimmicks and didn't need to in the end. One late, unnecessary gross-out moment brought it down a notch. I found myself laughing multiple times throughout.

The story isn't rocket-science, and we knew it wouldn't be, but the comedic timing of the leads is spot-on, and they were given a great script to work with. This is the funniest movie since last years' Bridesmaids. Channing Tatum showed his comedic timing during his appearance on SNL. Hill's 'The Sitter', completely mediocre, and it's been quite a while since Superbads success. Another buddy cop movie, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, based on a lousy 80's television show - doesn't sound all that appealing. See this movie, stat.I too expected this to stink. Who else is in fine form? Johnny Depp, who graciously makes a cameo that's hilarious and cheeky and satisfying. And Hill and Tatum have great chemistry, a main requirement of buddy cop movies. It still propels the film forward and provides a great backdrop for the central theme to unfold: the friendship shared by the two leads. (The troubled kids are actually environmentalists and academically serious.) The drug plot is almost incidental, but not so incidental that it's a wash.

The film actually twists some stereotypes on their heads. Its material is modern, its jokes whip-smart, and, as a result, it's a delight (as long as you're 'mature' enough to handle the crude stuff, of course).Ģ1 Jump Street's wit comes from the way that it pokes fun at high school and how its sociological makeup - who's popular, who's not, what are kids these days up to? - has changed over the years. Rather than borrowing heavily from its '80s TV predecessor or mining the same, now-tired jokes as some other movies descended from previously known projects, 21 JUMP STREET is solidly in the present, even as it flashes back to the past.

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