22 Jump Street

22 Jump Street

Rating 1 out of 10

Clearly I am not in the demographic of people this movie was made for.   I did not like 21 Jump Street and am no fan of Jonah Hill (to put it nicely).  I rented the first one and turned it off after thirty minutes because it looked so stupid.  I saw this movie on Fathers Day under protest because my movie buddy and cycle riding partner Ted Daniels wanted to see it.

In this version police officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are wanting to be taken serious and cops when they are forced to go back undercover.  Instead of working in a local high school this time the duo are sent into a fictional college to bust a dreaded drug dealer that is pushing a new drug that is killing people.

I find it very hard to believe this movie had any type of written script before they started.  To me it seemed like they had a brief outline and told the actors to improv whatever they thought was funny no matter how stupid or unbelievable it was.  Makes no difference that local police can't go into Mexico during Spring Break and arrest drug dealers or even a muscular bicep like Tatums when shot with a 9mm slug will give you more than a band aid ouchie.  The most unbelievable part of the movie  is probably that a bozo like Hill would land a girlfriend with one of the hottest gals in the college.

I really can't remember when I felt a movie was such a complete waste of good film stock as this one.  Fifteen minutes in I was looking at my phone for another movie in the theater I could go to.  Unfortunately it was a small theater with nothing playing I could go to.  I may see a movie that takes over my Worst Ten list of 2014 from 22 Jump Street but I sure hope not.