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21 Jump Street

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polkablues:
Holy crap, you guys.  This movie has no right to work as well as it does.  I like Channing Tatum now?  That can not be right.

But really, it's funny.  I can't bring myself to invest actual brain cells into writing a real review, but it's funny and should be seen.

JG:
its true. dave franco slays, too.

matt35mm:
The directors and Michael Bacall are the main reasons why this works so well, and Jonah Hill really deserves a lot of credit as a producer for bringing all the right people onto this project. It's one of the most gleefully made movies I've seen in a long time.

polkablues:
I didn't realize going in that it was directed by the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs guys, but knowing that now, I can see commonalities.  Primarily the way both movies play with conventions, how they take just the right amount of piss out of the sort of movies that they're homaging (not a real word; don't care), and how they manage to actually BE clever without trying too hard to SEEM clever.


--- Quote from: JG on April 04, 2012, 05:12:57 PM ---its true. dave franco slays, too.

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Dave is the greater Franco.  I'm just going to come out and say it.

Pubrick:

--- Quote from: polkablues on April 04, 2012, 06:16:19 PM ---I didn't realize going in that it was directed by the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs guys,
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I didn't know that either til just now.

That's the only reason I'll give this a shot.

It just looks so.. unnecessary.

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