21 Jump Street Cinema Review

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Imagine a remake which outdid all of your expectations: taking slightly insubstantial source material – now very dated and partly forgotten about – and stripping it to its barest concept; then reinventing it with new drive and a new direction, even changing its very genre. Now imagine a remake which mocks all other remakes, poking fun at the lack of originality within the film industry; the lack of new ideas; the prevalence of clichés and tried-and-tested routines – and, worse, the very fact that nobody can make anything good out of all this old material.

21 Jump Street is both of those movies rolled into one, a film which defies anything you might expect if you had seen even a single episode of the earnest 80s young-Johnny-Depp-starring police drama about youthful-looking cops sent back to High School undercover; a film which mocks the very notion of reinventing, reworking and remaking old material; but which also actually acts as...


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