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Cleverer, wittier and snarkier than 21 Jump Street, this is nonstop self-deprecation of its “sequel to a reboot” status, offering well-deserved smacks to about 817 Hollywood things that desperately deserve it: TV shows-turned-movies; sequelitis; dumb action heroes; meet-cutes; bromances; fist fights; frat comedies; 30-something actors playing teenagers; and other nonsense. Cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have “graduated” to going undercover at a college—they’re investigating a drugs case that is “just like last time”—and though this is as big, loud, actiony and goofy as an action-comedy sequel can be, it’s (mostly) not stupid, sexist or homophobic along the way. And it’s surprisingly just plain nice. 22 Jump Street punches up, at the excesses and inanities of Hollywood, and not down at the usual easy, powerless targets—and even then, it’s never cruel about it.
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Director: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Stephen Cannell, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Brian Bell, Tania Landau, Reid Carolin and Ben Waisbren
Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens, Jillian Bell, Ice Cube, Keith Lucas, Kenny Lucas, Nick Offerman, Jimmy Tatro, Caroline Aaron, Craig Roberts, Marc Jackson, Joe Chrest, Eddie Fernandez, Rye Rye, Johnny Pemberton, Stanley Wong and Dax Flame
Director: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Stephen Cannell, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Brian Bell, Tania Landau, Reid Carolin and Ben Waisbren
Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens, Jillian Bell, Ice Cube, Keith Lucas, Kenny Lucas, Nick Offerman, Jimmy Tatro, Caroline Aaron, Craig Roberts, Marc Jackson, Joe Chrest, Eddie Fernandez, Rye Rye, Johnny Pemberton, Stanley Wong and Dax Flame
