It’s an odd coupling that still tickles a comedy sweet spot partly because both actors are naturally likable and seem to be having a good time.
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The new movie somewhat reverses that dynamic even as it continues to milk jokes about who’s popular and not.
Tatum’s characters against their off-screen personas: In 2012, Schmidt rode the geek-nation wave and even scored romantically, while Jenko the jock felt the sting of rejection. Part of what made “21 Jump Street” work was the way it played Mr. Glen Wilson/Columbia PicturesĪs expected, the focus remains fixed on Schmidt and Jenko, who take turns doing the Goofus and Gallant bit. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in “22 Jump Street." Credit. But because it worked, “this department has invested a lot of money to make sure Jump Street keeps going.” “Nobody cared about the Jump Street reboot,” Hardy deadpans, staring at the guys while all but winking at the camera. Tatum) enter with their chief, Hardy (Nick Offerman), announcing that they’ve been tapped to reproduce their first success. The pop-culture savants behind “22 Jump Street” understand this so well that they’ve folded this ethos into the movie, which is bookended by self-amused references to its status as franchise fodder. Submission is one of the foundations of mass culture: If you bludgeon them, they will come. For a second time, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play lovable undercover cops who - in between dodging danger and jokes that fly almost as fast as they do on “The Simpsons” - insinuate themselves into a juvenile population, whose resistance to these charmers has been rendered completely futile, much like that of the movie’s audience. This is, of course, the sequel to “21 Jump Street,” the 2012 hit that borrowed its title and undercover brother shtick from the old television show best known for its hair-gel hottie, Johnny Depp. More is more and is, at times, just right in “22 Jump Street,” an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery.
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