Connection To LEAVE IT TO BEAVER - both are based on TV shows.
21 Jump Street, was a show I was familiar with but never seen - I knew it starred Johnny Depp and Richard Grieco and knew it was about cops going undercover as high school students but that was about it, it probably also had something with Depp choosing to take interesting roles to avoid the pin-up moniker he would get with this show.
21 Jump Street works totally as a movie in it's own right, it's maybe because the show's concept can be boiled down to so few words, it also like the better TV remake movies sort of makes fun of some of the concepts (in a loving way) while being it's own thing. This film also feels like the first high school film in a long-time to acknowledge the world is a bit different now - that jock and geek are not quite how they are always presented anymore.
One of the stars Channing Tatum, actually went from hey I tolerate him to hey your actually a pretty good actor, so it's awesome when a movie pretty much changes your precipitation of people, who has great chemistry here with the other undercover cop Jonah Hill.
SPOILER(ISH) AHEAD - but do you want to know one of the most awesome things about this movie it's not actually a remake of the TV series it ends up being a stealth sequel and we get the cameo of two original 21 Jump Street actors in cameos playing their original characters which I won't spoil here END OF SPOILER
The supporting cast is actually filled out nicely with Dave Franco and Brie Larson cool as students and the ever adorable Ellie Kemper as a teacher among others in a pretty well cast film.
Overall, it's funny and the action scenes are cool and features great chemistry between the leads, this actually has me looking forward to it's sequel (22 Jump Street).
21 Jump Street works totally as a movie in it's own right, it's maybe because the show's concept can be boiled down to so few words, it also like the better TV remake movies sort of makes fun of some of the concepts (in a loving way) while being it's own thing. This film also feels like the first high school film in a long-time to acknowledge the world is a bit different now - that jock and geek are not quite how they are always presented anymore.
One of the stars Channing Tatum, actually went from hey I tolerate him to hey your actually a pretty good actor, so it's awesome when a movie pretty much changes your precipitation of people, who has great chemistry here with the other undercover cop Jonah Hill.
SPOILER(ISH) AHEAD - but do you want to know one of the most awesome things about this movie it's not actually a remake of the TV series it ends up being a stealth sequel and we get the cameo of two original 21 Jump Street actors in cameos playing their original characters which I won't spoil here END OF SPOILER
The supporting cast is actually filled out nicely with Dave Franco and Brie Larson cool as students and the ever adorable Ellie Kemper as a teacher among others in a pretty well cast film.
Overall, it's funny and the action scenes are cool and features great chemistry between the leads, this actually has me looking forward to it's sequel (22 Jump Street).
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