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little meta gag reflecting how baffling it is that studios keep cranking out remakes and reimaginings of useless, outdated films and TV shows, which is exactly what “21 Jump Street” is on the surface. The eighties TV series had a spectacularly silly premise, never attracted the sort of rabid cult following that would usually inspire a studio cash-in, and is only notable for launching the career of Johnny Depp. Yet, as Offerman puts it in his wonderful, deadpan way, here we are, re-launching a concept as insanely stupid as “21 Jump Street.”
Review: "21 Jump Street" is a remarkably fun and creative spin on a bad eighties TV premise
Review: "21 Jump Street" is a remarkably fun…
Review: "21 Jump Street" is a remarkably fun and creative spin on a bad eighties TV premise
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little meta gag reflecting how baffling it is that studios keep cranking out remakes and reimaginings of useless, outdated films and TV shows, which is exactly what “21 Jump Street” is on the surface. The eighties TV series had a spectacularly silly premise, never attracted the sort of rabid cult following that would usually inspire a studio cash-in, and is only notable for launching the career of Johnny Depp. Yet, as Offerman puts it in his wonderful, deadpan way, here we are, re-launching a concept as insanely stupid as “21 Jump Street.”