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Author Topic: 21 Jump Street (2012) Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 03-24-2012 06:55 PM                        CINEMA: Regal Village Square, Las Vegas, NV AUDITORIUM: 13 PRESENTATION: Sony 4K Digital PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Audio distortion with music in one scene (intended? Didn't seem like it.) RATING: Two and one half stars (out of four) So I buy my ticket and notice there's a Rocket Fizz in the adjoining shopping center. Rocket Fizz is a shop that sells an extensive line of sodas in glass bottles and obscure candy. I require four things of such a place: Cheerwine, Orange Nehi, XXX Root Beer, and Green River. And this store had NONE of these. THE PLOT: This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Wackiness ensues. This looked all sorts of terrible from the first time I saw a trailer for it, so I was surprised at the number of favorable reviews I saw for it (which largely started with "I was surprised..."). So I chose this over "The Hunger Games", because that didn't look like my thing and I wasn't actually hungry. This big screen redux does a good job of laughing at itself, particularly when the stars are being explained where they're being transferred to (which starts off with "a cancelled program from the eighties" and perfectly continues as a parallel rant about said cancelled police program...and movie remakes of television shows in general). It's a funny movie overall, but it's also dumb and lacking in originality (well...it IS a TV remake). I can only remember three primary cast members from the original show, but all three (two uncredited) have cameos.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 03-26-2012 09:06 PM                     I thought for a mainstream Hollywood movie culled from a tv show it actually was funny - I also thought the chemistry between Hill and Tatum was perfect. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would.  |  IP: Logged

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