Review: "21 Jump Street" is a remarkably fun and creative spin on a bad eighties TV premise
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Film Rating: B+
Early in “21 Jump Street,” Nick Offerman’s police chief character remarks on how utterly unimaginative the department is in resurrecting an old, silly undercover unit from the eighties where youthful-looking officers fight crime at local High Schools by pretending to be students. It’s a wonderful little meta gag reflecting how baffling i…
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