21 Jump Street (2012)

Seven years after high school, two misfits get together when they each join the same police academy; Jenko (Channing Tatum) is still a jock; he has physique, but he lacks brains and common-sense. Schmidt (Jonah Hill) is still a nerd; he has book-smarts, but he lacks coordination and common-sense. They become friends as they decide to help each other through training and upon graduation they become partners as well. Their first assignment is Bike Patrol in a local park; but they muck up their first arrest on a group of pot smoking bikers by failing to properly Mirandize the perp. (Jenko doesn’t even know how to recite the Miranda-Rights.) But that’s okay, Chief Hardy explains that the department is reviving an old canceled program and one of the projects involves the use of young immature seeming officers and “You idiots are perfect. You’re officially transferred.”

Our two cops are then sent to a church on 21 Jump Street where they will report to Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) and receive their new assignment. During the initial briefing Dickson calls his new squad “some Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus lookin motherF’ers”, he’s teaching them to “embrace their stereotypes”; the unit will be working undercover as high school students and he orders them to “Teenage the F#&K-up!” and then he explains the restrictions leading up to the “GOLDEN RULE”, Do Not Get Expelled from school! HA!

There’s a new synthetic drug that kids call “HFS”; Dickson explains that right now HFS is confined to one high school, and then he shows an internet video of a student that overdosed on the shyt a few days ago, now the kid is dead. Jenko and Schmidt’s job will be to infiltrate the dealers and find the supplier so they can eradicate this drug before it reaches the general public and contaminates other schools. As undercover students our cops will also pretend to be brothers, Dickson has cleverly created their new identities and enrolled them both in courses based on their original past academic history. Nevertheless, they manage to get confused on the first day of school, so now Jenko becomes the nerd and Schmidt is the jock. Together they have a lot of fun violating many restrictions through their investigation as they try to fit in with these kids to get closer to their targets, but everything goes awry after Schmidt gets carried away with being popular and Jenko gets caught up trying to prove he’s not stupid. They wind up braking the Golden Rule which gets them fired off the squad, but they have infiltrated the dealer AND their case is just about to come to a head. And since they already missed out on Prom Night seven years ago, and they already screwed up their first arrest in the park; they plan on going to prom to meet the supplier and carry out their big drug bust.

This is a hilarious action comedy that has definitely earned its ‘R’ rating!