Then their boss, Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), assigns them to enroll in the local college and root out the source of a mind scrambling drug called WHYPHY, which has already claimed the life of a student named Cynthia.

This goes about as well as you'd expect, and soon they're fleeing down the freeway atop a speeding truck (an action scene that's very funny in itself). The movie begins with Schmidt and Jenko screwing up an unrelated undercover assignment, attempting to pose as Mexican drug thugs in order to infiltrate a gang of actual Mexican drug thugs.

But where the old two-man template called for one partner to be a goofy simpleton and the other basically a straight man, Hill and Tatum can each take on both of those roles, expanding the possibility (and almost achieving the actuality) of nonstop laughs. They're so perfectly matched that it's tempting to compare them to famous comedy duos of the past вЂ“ Laurel and Hardy, say, or Abbott and Costello. Part of the credit for this must be given to scripters Michael Bacall and Oren Uziel, and to returning directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (who'll soon be returning to their fledgling Lego Movie franchise).Д«ut the indispensable heart of the enterprise continues to be the unlikely teaming of Hill and Tatum. But the picture is more than a wink-fest. Schmidt and Jenko have been given this very similar second assignment because their first exploit was so successful that higher-ups have allotted larger resources for another go-round вЂ“ which is of course the bottom-line logic of just about every Hollywood sequel that's ever cluttered the multiplexes. Part of the movie's pleasure is its self-referentiality. ('I'm the first person in my family to pretend to go to college,' says the lovably dense Jenko.) Otherwise, though, we're in familiar territory here. This time, instead of being sent back to high school to bust a student drug ring, undercover cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have graduated to busting a college drug ring.

22 Jump Street isn't just an improbable sequel to the smash hit 21 Jump Street of two years ago вЂ“ it's virtually the same damn story.

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