At times, I found myself thinking of Starsky & Hutch if, perhaps, Starsky & Hutch had screwed up for a few years before becoming really cool and effective cops. Actually, 21 Jump Street the movie is more like an 'inspired by' version of the television series rather than a faithful homage to the series that ran from 1987-1991. 21 Jump Street, that television series that turned on Johnny Depp's Hollywood star, is back and on the big screen. After a couple failures, both are re-assigned to a rejuvenated program, I'll give you one guess, working undercover to investigate a new drug that has infiltrated the local high school. In the end, both Schmidt and Jenko end up passing their exams and get prepared for a life of action and kickin' a**.on bike patrol. Needless to say, a cooperative relationship is born. In other words, Schmidt and Jenko really didn't even much know each other except for that time when Schmidt humiliated himself by fumbling through a feeble attempt to ask a girl to the prom.įlash forward a few years and life has changed for both young men.īoth guys are now at the police academy, with Schmidt acing all the tests but nothing else and Jenko a physical hotshot who can't seem to pass a test to save his life. Jenko, on the other hand, was the high school hottie/jock whose popularity was as high as his I.Q.

Schmidt was your standard-issue overweight nerd, the whose a complete brainiac but completely devoid of anything resembling social skills. In fact, they barely lived in the same stratosphere. Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) weren't friends in high school.

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