22 Jump Street : Movie Review


Title: 22 Jump Street
Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube
Director: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Run time: 107 mins (DVD) / 112 mins (BD)
Rated: 15


Jonah Hill & Channing Tatum Go Undercover... Again

22 JUMP STREET


Available on Digital HD November 3rd
Coming to Blu-ray™ & DVD November

The special features are pretty extensive with more than 100 minutes of extensive bonus content, including 22 deleted and extended scenes, four alternate line-o-ramas, six featurettes and three extra videos.


After going undercover in high school to big a ring of drug dealers to justice in 21 Jump Street, officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are back for the sequel and are assigned to go undercover again… this time at college. There are lots of in-jokes and exposition, mostly from Captain Dickson (Cube) about how it’s a sequel and how the budget has been increased and hoping people won’t notice they are doing the same thing again. It’s funny until you realise it’s not. They have made basically the exact same film again, minus the original, fresh, laughs. It’s all a bit disappointing. I loved the first 21 Jump Street film and was eagerly awaiting 22 Jump Street, but on reflection I feel let down.

Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team (will he turn out to be the drug dealer?) and Schmidt gets involved in the arts and finds a girl that he falls in love with.

The direction from Lord and Miller is solid, but lacks some of the stylistic flourishes of the first film and doesn’t reach the comedy heights of The Lego Movie. Hill and Tatum are endlessly game for making fools of themselves but again fail to top or even match the laughs of the first film such as Hill as Peter Pan or Tatum tripping on drugs.

It’s a shame there isn’t more innovation on offer here. I’d like to have seen something new. The strangest thing then are the closing credits (and they’re also the funniest 5 minutes of the movie) as they chronicle all of the other possible places where Schmidt and Jenko could go undercover… art school, culinary school, medical school, foreign exchange students, ninja academy, flight academy. It’s funny stuff. Why not put some of this invention into the main movie?

So 22 Jump Street is a mixed bag. It’s got the characters we love from 21 Jump Street and it still has laughs, but it’s missing a streak of creativity. Let’s hope that 23 Jump Street comes up with some new ideas and re-hits it’s original top form.



Blu-ray & DVD Bonus Features Include:
• Commentary with Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum
• Five Deleted & Extended Scenes
• “The Perfect Couple of Directors” Featurette
• Line-O-Rama: “Schmidt and Tattoo Art”

Blu-ray Exclusive Bonus Features Include:

• 17 Additional Deleted & Extended Scenes (22 total)
• Six Additional Featurettes:
- “Everything is Better in College” a closer look at Jenko and Schmidt’s undercover transformation into college students
- “Janning and Chonah” dives into the relationship of the film’s two stars
- “New Recruits: Casting 22 Jump Street” gives a look at the new cast members in the film
- “The Perfect Line: Ad-libbing on Set” showcases the great comic actors and their improvisation in some of the film’s most memorable scenes
- “Don’t Cut Yet: The Mr. Walters Prison Scene” -- Unfiltered and hilarious improvisation that occurred while filming the Mr. Walters prison scene
- “The Dramatic Interpretation of 22 Jump Street” -- A dramatic version of the film (with all jokes removed)
• “Joke-a-Palooza” -- a montage of jokes cut from the film
• Line-O-Ramas:
- “Jenko and the Professor”
- “Jenko Improv Suggestions”
- “Mercedes on Schmidt’s Age”
- “Mercedes and The Ghost”
• Extra Videos:
- “Zook & McQuaid’s Football Tape”
- “Jenko Split”


22 Jump Street - Trailer

Author : kevin Stanley