22 Jump Street Review: Doing the Exact Same Thing
The newest dynamic duo to come out of Hollywood , Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, are back to attack your funny bones in a very familiar fashion. But surprisingly and impressively the team succeed where so many other comedy franchises have failed; with a bag of 2 nd hand tricks, that seem to work even better this time around. Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are back on our silver screens to once again take down the trade of a new dangerous drug that has already claimed its first victim. But this time instead of infiltrating a high school with their narrowly convincing latter teenage looks they are now trying to find their footing in a college from which point hilarity and relationship defining moments ensue. If this sounds very similar to the plot of the first movie it’s because it is, in-fact it’s almost exactly the same. And while this is usually a huge con for a movie, such as 2011’s un-inventive The Hangover Part 2, how this movie embraces its own flaws of