Film Review – 21 Jump Street

“21 Jump Street” is a goof of a film that continually reminds the audience of its superfluousness. Refusing to be the victim of agitated scrutiny from movie geeks, the production makes it perfectly clear it’s in on the joke, striving to find ways to pants the supercop genre and high school cinema, not to mention its foundation as big screen update of a cult television series from the 1980s. Thankfully, “21 Jump Street” understands the basics in absurdity and overstimulation, steamrolling forward as a profane, ridiculous action comedy with two motivated lead performances. It’s no tribute to the original program, but a wink-happy perversion of the concept, raising hell in its own somewhat tedious, frequently hilarious way. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com