just watch it!

Good idea lost in the noise

Absolutely the worst movie.

Blistering performances.

Who would have thought Channing Tatum would be the perfect comedy partner to Jonah Hill?Some really funny scenes throughout the film, that have made it one of my most watched films of all time

I was looking for an action-comedy film and i found this one. I enjoyed every scene of the movie and it didn't bore me at all. The action scenes and investigation story is lame but this is not a James Bond movie so I didn't worry about these stuff. Mixing detective story with high school theme generated a very good comedy. I definitely recommend this movie for those who are looking for a movie to lough hard and have fun.

After watching the absolutely appalling movie that was CHiPs a part of me wanted to see another movie that was based on a popular cop show from the eighties, and fortunately I happened to have this one in my collection. Okay, while it might not have the drawing power of Johnny Depp and Lou Diamond Phillips (and I'm sorry, but Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum simply do not come close) a part of me felt that maybe, just maybe, it would be a little better that that previous movie that I wasted $10.00 to see (and money that I simply won't be getting back again). Oh, and a colleague also highly recommended it.Well, I have to admit that it was much, much better than that other travesty of a movie, though like CHiPs, it also turned what was originally a somewhat serious series into something that was much more humorous. Also, it also wasn't ashamed to with poking fun at itself (such as referring to it as another pointless attempt to resurrect a defunct project from the 80s). In a sense it seems that a lot of these attempts to resurrect a classic 80s series are doing so with a lot more humour than the original series had.If you are familiar with the original series then you will know what this film is about – a couple of cops who look rather young (or are supposed to look rather young, and once again the film actually pokes fun at the ridiculous nature of this concept by pointing out that Channing Tatum really doesn't look like a high school student because he is way too old) are given an assignment to go undercover into a high school in an attempt to bust open a drug ring. The thing is that our heroes are actually a couple of goofups, one of them being pretty smart but having no physical skills whatsoever, and the other being a tough guy but basically being as thick as a brick.The other rather amusing thing about this film is how the nature of school has changed. Mind you, a part of me finds that this concept of the school being taken over by geeks, lefties, and those of the alternate lifestyle, still seems to be rather unrealistic. While the film pokes fun at how the world has changed a lot since I was in high school, a part of me feels that the public schools are still run by the jocks, while the private schools are still run by the rich kids. In a way it seems as if what was being portrayed here was more in line with what one would expect from university as opposed to high school, though even then that is probably stretching things a little too far.As for the film, well, I have to admit that I did really enjoy it. One of the things it does explore is how life in high school and life in the real world are two completely different things. While one might be seen as a geek in high school, once one leaves high school and enters the real world things end up changing, and changing a lot. In fact what we see here is that the roles are suddenly reversed. In my experience I have known lots of people who, when they were in high school, were considered geeks and weren't a part of the in crowd, once they left they found themselves as not only the centre of attention, but also as being the hip and cool people. In many cases, while the jocks might be the cool people in high school, once it is over they are more likely than not to disappear into obscurity (as was the case with many of the people I went to school with).

This action-comedy opens back in 2005 where we are introduced to protagonists Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko while they are still at school. Schmidt is hard working but definitely not cool enough to get a pretty girl to go to the prom with him; Greg is athletic and considered cool but his academic record is so bad he is banned from attending the prom. Cutting to 2012 they have both joined the police; it isn't what they expected though; first they are given the job of patrolling a park on bicycles… a job they manage to make a mess of. They are then transferred to 21 Jump Street, a programme to put young undercover cops into high schools. Their task is to find out who is behind the production of a new synthetic drug that has already killed one student. They are given student profiles fitted to their individual skills; unfortunately they prepare so poorly that they don't bother learning their undercover names and end up having to try to be plausible playing the other's role.This film was much better than I expected; there were lots of genuinely hilarious moments as well as some surprisingly good action. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have a great chemistry as Schmidt and Jenko; they provided plenty of laughs throughout; they may have looked a bit old for high school students but that wasn't really a problem, after most high school films cast people who are much older than their characters… at least here the characters are actually meant to be older. The rest of the cast is pretty solid too; notably Ice Cube, as the gruff Captain Dickson; Brie Larson who plays Molly, a girl Schmidt gets involved with and Rob Riggle, as PE teacher Mr. Walters. The comedy won't be to everybody's taste but I thought it was hilarious for the most part; it certainly didn't go quite as far into gross out territory as many recent comedies… the one possible exception to this is a scene where a bad guy becomes 'less of a man' after being shot in the groin then tries to pick up what he lost with his teeth! Hilarious? Disturbing? Disgusting? You decide! Overall I'd certainly recommend this to viewers wanting a good laugh with some decent action.