Whereas high school redux proved an unexpected season in hell for Jenko (whose macho, bullying ways were hopelessly out of step with the PC times) and a boon for the nerdy Schmidt (who suddenly found himself in with the “in” crowd), college life turns out to be very much the inverse. Dickson (Ice Cube), and once again donning their alter egos of brothers Brad and Doug McQuaid to infiltrate a suspected drug-trafficking ring at a local university. But after letting a wanted kingpin (Peter Stormare) slip through their hands - a hilarious episode that builds to a great, Harold Lloyd-worthy bit of death-defying slapstick - Jenko and Schmidt find themselves back on Jump Street, back under the thumb of the dyspeptic Capt. In between, returning screenwriter Michael Bacall and co-writers Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman pick up exactly where “21” left off, with officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) heading off to college on a new assignment for their beleaguered deputy chief (Nick Offerman), who winkingly cautions that things “are always worse the second time.”Īs it happens, it’s an online university to which the partners have been dispatched, charged with ferreting out coded messages in the classroom lectures of a bloviating philosophy professor. Much as “21 Jump Street” managed to simultaneously tip its hat and thumb its nose at its 1980s fourth-network source material, so “22 Jump Street” wears its sequel-ness on its sleeve, from an opening “previously on” recap (including a wry “Annie Hall” homage not seen in the original film) to its inspired closing montage of concepts for future “Jump Street” sequels (culinary school! ninja school!).
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