"21 Jump Street" movie review.

Recently I went with some friends to see the movie “21 Jump Street”. This movie stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Brie Larson (along with many others). Overall the movie was a lot better than I expected. It was very funny and kept me interested the whole time.

The movie starts off based in 2007 with two teenagers in high school anticipating the upcoming prom. Schmidt (Jonah Hill) is considered in the “out” group, whereas Jenko (ChanningTatum) is considered to be in the “in” group. Schmidt tries to work up to courage to ask the girl of his dreams out on a date, but then realizes that she is embarrassed to be asked by him, and sees that Jenko and his friends are laughing at it all. Later we see that Jenko is no longer allowed at prom, because of his terrible grades. There is a moment at the end of this scene where they are both are tearing up outside of the school and look at each other, as if they feel each other’s pain.

The movie jumps ahead see Schmidt walking into training for work at the police station (he is older now). He glances up to see Jenko. As they go through the training process they become very close, and become best friends. They get fired from their park patrol job and sent to a program located in a building with the address 21 Jump Street.

Once getting to this building, they get assigned a task together; they are to go back to high school and find the source of drug dealing around the school. They are told to not get in trouble, no hooking up with girls from the school, and to not inform anyone that they are undercover cops. Once at the school they get each other’s schedules; Schmidt gets the easy classes, while Jenko gets the advanced, hard classes.

Eventually they adjust to these friend groups-- the opposites of what they were when they were in high school – and eventually find the dealer of the drugs. Although they find the dealer, they do not find the person making the drug. After getting expelled from the school (because they end up fighting at the school play), they decide to go to prom anyway because they think they have a lead on the case. The dealer then brings them upstairs to a hotel room and shows them the supplier; the high school gym teacher. Eventually they end up making their first arrest and feeling very accomplished

Although this isn’t even half of what happens in the movie, it was very good overall. The only thing that I did not like about the movie was that there was a lot of unnecessary blood during the hotel room/car chase scene. Otherwise, I really suggest going to see this movie!