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HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... current day count
226 .......................... 243
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July 13th
—— 2012 ——
21 JUMP STREET
—— comedy ——
REWATCH
This time, the boys are
going to high school!
You can’t really call the countless quantities of cop comedies to be an entirely new phenomenon, but it seems to be an unstoppable force that is always being crammed from the canny ass of Hollywood, no matter if we like it or not. Thankfully, there are both good and bad additions to the peculiar parings of people more alike than they even thought themselves, and this one happened to be one of the better ones. Basically, it is a supercharged self-aware cop caricature that happens to be so much fun that it stands on its own way better than it had any right to – but that didn’t come all by itself, because without the dynamic duo of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, this wouldn’t even have been half as good as it turned out to be…
With a crazy cool combination of clichés in action, and chemistry in acting, this action picture parody boosts with gut-busting amusement and high-octane entertainment, which doesn’t fail to either make you excited or embarrassed by whatever Schmidt and Jenko get themselves into along the way. I would almost call this movie a diamond in the rough, since it could have easily been a huge failure at first sight, but thanks to the double directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, we have a film that leaves the sirens and flashy flashes on from the very start, having the movie jump straight into the chaos with both feet. You never quite know which way the movie takes you, since it wants to reinforce the clichés as much as it wants to recreate them – you may have been driving down ’21 Jump Street’ before, but you have never been racing down it doing 100 miles an hour, drifting and U-turning, while looking cool as hell.
The boys may be on a simple mission – infiltrate the dealer, find the supplier – but they are without a doubt going to mess that up and we love watching them doing it. It is also quite clear that they had as much fun doing it as we have watching it and it is this kind of self-aware atmosphere that makes it a blast to watch! The spot-on chemistry between Hill and Tatum really lifts this film out of the norm, while the witty script, stylish directing and modern soundtrack helps improve on what is already a fun time. This film has it all and also a little more than you ask for – and you could say its strong points are also its weak points in some way – but it was a great rewatch and I think you can watch this many times without ever getting bored truly with it.
__________________________
HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... current day count
226 .......................... 243
__________________________
July 13th
—— 2012 ——
21 JUMP STREET
—— comedy ——
REWATCH
This time, the boys are
going to high school!
You can’t really call the countless quantities of cop comedies to be an entirely new phenomenon, but it seems to be an unstoppable force that is always being crammed from the canny ass of Hollywood, no matter if we like it or not. Thankfully, there are both good and bad additions to the peculiar parings of people more alike than they even thought themselves, and this one happened to be one of the better ones. Basically, it is a supercharged self-aware cop caricature that happens to be so much fun that it stands on its own way better than it had any right to – but that didn’t come all by itself, because without the dynamic duo of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, this wouldn’t even have been half as good as it turned out to be…
With a crazy cool combination of clichés in action, and chemistry in acting, this action picture parody boosts with gut-busting amusement and high-octane entertainment, which doesn’t fail to either make you excited or embarrassed by whatever Schmidt and Jenko get themselves into along the way. I would almost call this movie a diamond in the rough, since it could have easily been a huge failure at first sight, but thanks to the double directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, we have a film that leaves the sirens and flashy flashes on from the very start, having the movie jump straight into the chaos with both feet. You never quite know which way the movie takes you, since it wants to reinforce the clichés as much as it wants to recreate them – you may have been driving down ’21 Jump Street’ before, but you have never been racing down it doing 100 miles an hour, drifting and U-turning, while looking cool as hell.
The boys may be on a simple mission – infiltrate the dealer, find the supplier – but they are without a doubt going to mess that up and we love watching them doing it. It is also quite clear that they had as much fun doing it as we have watching it and it is this kind of self-aware atmosphere that makes it a blast to watch! The spot-on chemistry between Hill and Tatum really lifts this film out of the norm, while the witty script, stylish directing and modern soundtrack helps improve on what is already a fun time. This film has it all and also a little more than you ask for – and you could say its strong points are also its weak points in some way – but it was a great rewatch and I think you can watch this many times without ever getting bored truly with it.
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