21 Jump Street (2012)

All Critics (207) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (175) | Rotten (32) | DVD (9)

The late-eighties TV series is rebooted with jolts of sentiment, personal discovery, and wild comedy.

March 26, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Brody

New Yorker

Top Critic

The whole crew makes clear its affections for action cinema, trashy television and the YouTube generation alike while having fun at the expense of all three.

March 16, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

William Goss

Film.com

Top Critic

A raucous, raunchy comedy.

March 16, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

This bracing new take on 21 Jump Street has a playful spark all its own. It's a blast.

March 16, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

A try-anything, fitfully amusing muddle that wears its mocking cynicism a bit too proudly.

March 16, 2012 Full Review | Comments (25)

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

"21" makes clear from the beginning it is gobbling up some pop culture refuse in the name of nothing more than making fun of it and having fun with it.

March 16, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Chaotic and far-fetched yet funny enough to have audiences rolling in the aisles.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Given the broad drama of the series, their movie should be full of big ideas, and instead settles for redundant gags involving drugs, guns, and high school cliques.

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Kirk Baird

Toledo Blade

The supporting characters add depth to the comedic pairing of Tatum and Hill.

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Rebecca Onion

Austin American-Statesman

Remake or no, this movie is hysterical.

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Cammila Albertson

TV Guide's Movie Guide

21 Jump Street gets the remake job done with tongue-in-cheek style & plenty of outrageous moments.

September 30, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

Because of Bacall's skill at writing great comedic material and Lord's and Miller's talent behind the camera, "21 Jump Street" became more than what it originally appeared to be, which is a surprise I'm always grateful for.

September 16, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

21 Jump Street takes the basic concept of the original series, and uses it to create an action/comedy that is not only palatable to modern audiences, but appealing as well.

September 15, 2012 Full Review

Amy Curtis

We Got This Covered

Co-written, produced by, and stars Jonah Hill, who took exactly the right attitude towards the movie: He and his costar Channing Tatum embraced the stereotypes, laughed at themselves, and came up with a surprisingly funny film.

September 4, 2012 Full Review

Eric Melin

Scene-Stealers.com

21 Jump Street is a smartly stupid buddy comedy that plays with the ridiculousness of its set-up.

August 17, 2012 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Interchangeable with dozens of other "dude" comedies that have come before it.

July 15, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

Richard Knight

Knight at the Movies

...feels more like a guerrilla stunt than a soulless and cynical cash grab. Hooray for Hollywood, I guess.

July 5, 2012 Full Review

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Slick and funny as hell, 21 Jump Street is one of the best comedies of the year.

June 27, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

A raucous, entertaining, and incredibly funny film that respects the premise of the original series...

June 25, 2012 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

For an action comedy, "21 Jump Street" had less action or comedy than I expected. It felt as if I spent too much time waiting for something to happen-either for a joke to fire, or a pistol.

June 23, 2012 Full Review | Comments (15)

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

The best thing that can be said for it is that it never coasts on just one type of joke; funny in execution, not just in concept.

June 22, 2012 Full Review

Nathaniel Rogers

Film Experience

A floppy cross of high-school movie and buddy-cop comedy. Overdoses on flaccid penis and vagina 'jokes,' indulges in the ain't-this-cool?!ness of a cop-action flick, and passes out on the cliché-couch of bromance.

May 10, 2012 Full Review | Comments (14)

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

The movie is perfectly pleasant, a smidgen too aware of itself but consistently sharp.

April 30, 2012 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

While the film struggles at the start as Tatum and Hill share little chemistry, they improve minute by minute and are one of the shining lights by the end, their journey boasting a surprising emotional pull.

April 30, 2012 Full Review

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Feels like it's doing something new with the teen genre, while still acknowledging its debt to the classics that came before it.

April 29, 2012 Full Review

Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

t's less fun when the guns come out in the final act, but there's a moment late in the game that redeems the movie's predictable beats, before the whole thing dissolves into entropy and disorder.

April 29, 2012 Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

• 1. Molly Tracey: Hey Brad. Whoa! What are you wearing?
  2. Jenko: Potassium Nitrate, thanks for noticing.
  – Submitted by Ann A (3 months ago)
• 1. Schmidt: You know how Tom Cruise is always pissed off at Rainman? That's my life, except Brad is really shitty at math.
  – Submitted by Ann A (3 months ago)
• 1. Annie Schmidt: What kind of a sick animal draws an ejaculating penis into an eight-year old's mouth?
  2. Jenko: It could be, like, an airplane throwing up.
  3. Annie Schmidt: You think I don't know that's a dick and balls? I know all about dick and balls! I used to party with Robert Downey Jr , when he was really fucked up and a lot of fun!
  – Submitted by Ann A (3 months ago)
• 1. Jenko: Can I go take a dump?
  – Submitted by Ann A (3 months ago)
• 1. Schmidt: It's like seven strangers living in one house. True story!
  – Submitted by Ann A (3 months ago)
• 1. Jenko: How about a pound of coke?
  2. Schmidt: We're trying to show them a good time. Not ruin their fucking lives!
  3. Jenko: Pound of marijuana?
  4. Schmidt: Best party ever!
  – Submitted by Cody H (5 months ago)

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