100 Movie Challenge 2015 - # 54: 22 Jump Street

Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller

Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Crime

Runtime: 111 minutes

Year: 2014

Starring: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Dave Franco, Nick Offerman, Peter Stormare, Rob Riggle, Wyatt Russell, Jillian Bell, Amber Stevens, Dax Flame, Ashlyn McEvers, Jimmy Tatro, David Stephen Mitchell, Johnny Pemberton, Joe Chrest, Kate Adair, Libby Blanton, Amber Carollo

Description: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college.

Review: In 2012 we got the movie version “21 Jump Street”, a TV show which starred Johnny Depp. The movie, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and a huge amount of jokes, was a success. So when a movie is successful, there will off course be a sequel.

This time Schmidt and Jenko have to go undercover again. Not at a high school, but college. They have to infiltrate the dealers and find the supplier. Technically the same story, but then set at college. But the makers know that and mock it. That’s why “22 Jump Street” is better than I initially thought, because of the self-mockery.

Schmidt and Jenko are two completely different guys. Schmidt is smart and thinks things through, Jenko has a physical strength and is more impulsive. Those differences are also a central theme in the movie. This often gives us some clichés and stereotypes.

What is left is a movie that has much of the same, but still was surprisingly funny. Especially the way the movie mocks itself (stay for the end credits) and the great chemistry between Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, make this a fun night at the movies.

Rating: 3/ 5

Movie Trailer Sunday (118)

Here are this weeks trailers.

White Bird in a Blizzard
Description: Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is a young woman whose life is turned upside down by the sudden disappearance of her beautiful, enigmatic mother (Eva Green).
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Gabourey Sidibe, Thomas Jane
Trailer: Trailer "White Bird in a Blizzard"
Comment: The trailer doesn't show much, but it does look like something I would like.

3 Days to Kill
Description: A dying Secret Service Agent (Kevin COstner) trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.
Director: McG
Starring: Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld, Amber Heard, Connie Nielsen
Trailer: Trailer "3 Days to Kill"
Comment: It's probably a shitty movie, but I love Kevin Costner and I'm glad he's back in action.

22 Jump Street
Description: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube,
Trailer: Trailer "22 Jump Street"
Comment: This is just too cheesy, really, "22 Jump Street"? I thought the first one was bareable to watch, but I probably won't see this. Maybe when it's on TV in three years...

Blended
Description: After a bad blind date, a Jim (Adam Sandler) and Lauren (Drew Barrymore) find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attraction grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
Director: Ivan Menchell, Clara Sera
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kevin Nealon
Trailer: Trailer "Blended"
Comment: Adam Sandler hasn't done any memorable movies for a while and I don't think this is going to be one either. But when I see him together with Drew Barrymore I just want to rewatch "The Wedding Singer" again.

The Other Woman
Description: After realizing she is not her boyfriend's primary lover, a woman (Cameron Diaz) teams up with his wife (Leslie Mann) and plots mutual revenge.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Kinney, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Trailer: Trailer "The Other Woman
Comment: This is not going to be the best movie ever, but it does look like a lot of fun!