Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Stupid is as stupid does

21 Jump Street (2012)

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller this film based on the television series of the same name stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Brie Larson. Two bungling rookie policemen are sent to work undercover in a high school.

There is an interesting idea in here of having a second shot at your youth, particularly for characters that had a bad time first go around but the script never fulfils this potential. As a comedy this film is not very clever and the attempts at being self aware do not go down very well either. To be honest I am not really sure how changing the tone to a comedy from the more serious original is an improvement and generally I found this to be a weak effort.


2/5

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