Usually, sequels like this come from the first movie's major success and the studio rides the coat tales of the original blockbuster. We have seen it so many times: unplanned sequels that are expected to do as well as the original, but they end up tanking and turning into flops. Nick Offerman, who plays the police chief, has poked fun at that fact in both movies now. They also poke fun at the end of this movie, showing that this will be a never ending movie franchise going from 22 Jump street to 44 Jump street with just back-to-back sequels. It's true though, most amazing movies are followed up by terrible sequels. That is NOT the case with sequel !
"22 Jump Street" is Awesome! In Fact, I think it's better than the first movie. Its action-packed AND hilarious at the same time! Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum return as everyone's favorite duo in the sequel and this time it's Channing who is popular on campus and Jonah is the uncool one. Channing Tatum's character, "Jenko" gets an opportunity to play football again and re-live his glory days in high school. Jonah Hill's character, "Schmidt" is just the chubby tag-along. Their mission is to find the dealer on campus who's distributing a lab-made drug called "Why-Phy" (Work hard Yes - Play hard Yes) to all the other students on campus and expand from there. It's hard to take the villain / drug dealer seriously because its Jillian Bell from the show, "Workaholics". Plus, there's that awkward sexual fight scene between her and Jonah Hill. So Jillian wasn't very scary for a bad guy, but she was a funny and awkward villain which made for an unexpected plot twist.
There are some awesome football scenes with Channing Tatum, plus crazy car chases and shootouts just as expected. I also liked that it was under two hours long and still managed to pack all that action and comedy in. There was no boring dialogue, you're either laughing hysterically or watching in awe with your mouth half open. I give "22 Jump Street" a 10 /10 (FIRST TIME PERFECT RATING!!!!)
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