Too bad I've got to wait until home video release.

No point in seeing R-rated American comedies here since they'll be censored to death.

didn't think it was better than the first, thought it lost some steam in the 3rd act, but it still delivers. Solid B.

22 Jump Street is awful. The lowest kind of Hollywood Product™.

But worst of all... it ain't funny.

Even though it was the one saving grace of the first entry in this series, the chemistry between the two leads has evaporated this time out. Though at least one thing remained consistent - - the writing is still dreadful. 22 Jump Street may be the most purely boring movie I've seen this year, I couldn't take my eyes off my watch desperately wishing for it to end.

Garbage.


1 out of 5.


(I couldn't rate it "0 out of 5" because of the mildy amusing meta opening and closing bits.)

I thought it was a notch below the original but still incredibly enjoyable. Tatum and Hill work so well together and Ice Cube has more to do here and is absolutely hilarious. I do wish they did something different with the plot though. It was literally the same movie as the first. The whole "wink, wink. Nudge, nudge" thing they did reminding us that it is the same thing was annoying too. Still, it was a fun.

B

Agreed, I think that it really isn't better than the first one but it isn't that far from it.

Worst part of the movie is the chick from Workaholics, not funny at all. Liked the Ice Cube scenes but it was hard to hear from the audience laughing loudly.

This summer has been kind of disappointing for the big comedies, IMO. I didn't find this or Neighbors incredibly funny. I thought there were a few LOL moments in both but I didn't find either particularly hysterical or even very funny. Both enjoyable films (mainly for their performances) but nothing special.

When Ice Cube was revealed as the father, I laughed for two minutes straight.

It's a small notch below the first one in terms of laughs, but that doesn't stop it from still being the funniest and smartest comedy of the year thus far. The crowd I saw it with sucked though. Maybe it was because I saw it at 2:30 in the afternoon, but the place was pretty crowded. They just didn't seem to be in the mood. I also wonder how much of it flew over their heads with the metaness of the whole thing. And also, how can you not laugh at the Benny Hill reference? (I was the only one who laughed (maybe because I was the only one in the theater who got it), and it was the hardest laugh I've had in sometime) The movie literally fucking stops for a Benny Hill joke. The end credits are also fucking brilliant, which is kind of a shame because most of the audience was already out of the theater (Rogen AND Grieco?!)

Oh and Ice Cube and his "cube of ice" office. He needs his own separate paragraph. His wrinkle in the story was well done, and his flip out at the buffet is easily the best thing he's ever done.

As for the negatives...

The villain is a complete nothing
Peter Stormare is given nothing to do
Jonah Hill's love interest is a void until we learn who her parents are
Some of the frat guy stuff just kind of lays flat. Tatum, who is hilarious once again, can only do so much.

Yeah, I really enjoyed this one.

(A-)

It was the only hysterical moment of the film, IMO. Loved when he kept texting Hill's character lol

I will kill you, "Doug"

Not as good as the first, but ALOT of fun. The chemistry between Hill/Tatum is still on point and I loved every scene with Ice Cube in this.

The bit with him at the dinner and Queen Latifah's random cameo on top of the rant make that scene damn near a classic. Also, the facial expressions were priceless.

The finale was kind of weak and the villain's weren't much, but I didn't mind the stuff with Jenko finding a new best friend or Schmidt's new love interest although none of that stuff is as well done as the first movie.

A lot of fun. My only disappointment was no Brie Larson.

The end credits are freaking amazing.

The end credits were definitely awesome. Rolled my eyes when one of my friends kept on asking "how are they going to make the next one now!?!?!?"

A pleasant second adventure, at times even more amusing and exciting than the first. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum once again prove an electrifying duo, however unexpected, and the cast has a memorable and scene-stealing new member in Jillian Bell as Mercedes, the dryly confrontational roommate of the Hill character's love interest, a character who obviously becomes more important as the film goes on. She lands one magnificent one-liner after another, and I hope she is cast in a Frances Ha/Obvious Child-type vehicle in the near future. In general, I admire the way the film recognizes and plays with its own capitalist absurdity as a larger-budget variation on a prior hit, but it does become long in the tooth at two indulgent hours, threatening to blur the line separating Self-Aware Spoof of Overblown Sequels from Actual Overblown Sequel. For gifted directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's (The Lego Movie), this is becoming an unfortunate authorial trait: they deliver (color, flash, music, wit), but then they deliver again and again and again, until their films threaten to tip into a type of exuberant exhaustion.

B

Better than the first.

nope

Much better than Neighbors.

B

Not as funny as the first one, but still pretty dang funny and Hill/Tatum once again have perfect chemistry. B

The end credits are the best part.

agreed

Just as good as the first. Jillian Bell was absolutely hilarious and my favorite part - her fight scene with Jonah Hill at the end was hysterical. Ice Cube was also great in this one and had a lot more to do, and Amber Stevens is charming. Of course the movie works so well because of the chemistry between Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, who are both once again great. It drags a little at some points but for the most part this is a blast. Also the end credit sequence is amazing and the cameos in that were fun. I'd see the sequel with Anna Faris A-

I couldn't stop laughing at some of the random lines that Jillian Bell said, from her rant about the Golden Girls doing heroin to all of her old-man puns. I wish I could remember more of them off the top of my head

Jillian Bell is the biggest hit/miss aspect of this film with people. I didn't find her funny at all, but loved everything else.

Yeah, didn't like her here, and she's actually enjoyable on Workaholics. The constant jokes about Jonah looking old were a miss, all of them.