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!
