At my high school, it was very important to recycle, and slurs were a huge no-no. Like in Never Been Kissed, the nerd gets a chance to relive high school as one of the popular kids, but with added kudos to the teens of today: they’re woke! In 2012, the kind and conscientious Hill is considered in, whereas Tatum’s ignorant macho shtick is out. The main duo, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, had been, respectively, a jock and a geek in high school, and even though they’d become friends on the force, they didn’t realize that some time around Obama’s election, what “cool” was had changed. But Lord and Miller, as they often do, put a clever spin on the central dynamic. Obviously, I knew the plot going in: Young cops go undercover at a high school to sniff out drug dealers. When I saw 21 Jump Street, I was charmed, delighted, absolutely amused. (Also, having been directed by J*ss Wh*d*n, it hasn’t aged that great either, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about.) So lemme refresh your memory.Ģ010: The Karate Kid, The A-Team, A Nightmare on Elm StreetĢ011: Footloose, Arthur, Conan the BarbarianĢ014: The Equalizer, About Last Night, Endless Love, RobocopĪlso in 2012: Jump Street, and the aforementioned Avengers, which wasn’t a remake, but was a tentpole so behemoth that it made even a goofy action-comedy based on a TV show look downright humble. Remember 2010’s Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith? Neither does Jaden Smith. It’s not Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s fault! This was when mid-budget filmmaking’s answer to the Avengers-ification of the box office was to make everything ’80s new again.
#21 JUMP STREET FULL MOVIE GO MOVIE#
21 Jump Street, a movie I went hard for just 10 years ago that has aged like milk. Well folks, we finally found it: the Rearview Mirror-iest movie to ever be Rearview Mirrored.