Let's face it. Genitalia jokes and people on drugs are funny. Cringing over homophobia and stereotypes is funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2023

Here’s a movie that’s aware of all its clichés, but somehow, with no limit of energy and humor, uses our awareness of these formulas as its strength.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2023

While some original films make it through the cracks, almost everything these days is a sequel, reboot, or remake...our wallets are what do the talking and we keep rewarding Hollywood for this behavior.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2022

With little in the way of a compelling story the jokes make up for the lack of plot with a hit rate of roughly 70%. More than enough to achieve a passing grade.

| May 4, 2021

A deluge of action, some noteworthy cameos, and the always-reliable vulgar comedy to contrast with the more intelligent, self-aware mockery.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 1, 2020

Do you want to laugh? Do you find Hill's usual brand of humor funny? If so, you'll likely have a blast.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

In 2012, did anyone expect a "21 Jump Street" movie to be good? Because it is.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 12, 2020

The postmodern posturing speaks less to me of the film's wit, and more as disingenuous apologism for its own laziness and lack of originality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2020

The Funniest Film of the Year - 21 Jump Street!! Jump on over to Jump Street now.

| Nov 26, 2019

Despite all the coy formula-flipping and compulsive jokes, what wins us over is the odd-couple chemistry of the two leads.

| Jul 31, 2019

To my surprise it turned out to be the big hulking anatomical joke-spewing genuine bromance-building raunchcom that could.

| Jul 29, 2019

A surprisingly strong film with a solid balance of humor and heart, actually making us feel for and identify with the characters rather than just go through the usual paces of an R-rated comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 8, 2019

It knows it is rather silly fluff, so it revels in its own raunchy silliness -- creating a comedy that delivers plenty of laughs.

| Apr 12, 2019

A surprisingly sharp film that mixes several genres together - and then subverts them all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2018

Sure, references to "Glee" and Robert Downey Jr.'s drug years may not hold up quite as well in 20 years, but in an era of disposable pop culture, "21 Jump Street" is anything but, likely to be namechecked for a lot longer.

| Dec 17, 2018

All in all, this is not the atrocity it could have been and offers plenty of laughs to followers of the original and the uninitiated.

| Aug 23, 2018

... 21 Jump Street is consistently funny throughout, with a few really huge laughs peppered in the script.

| Oct 23, 2017

Not that the original series was high-brow/must-see television, but I figured any remake of it in the 21st century would at least be far more ambitious than this tired bit of recycling.

| Aug 14, 2017

Fast, funny and smarter than its dunce-cap demeanor lets on.

| May 12, 2015

A lot smarter and a lot funnier than it has any real right to be.

| Original Score: B | Jun 23, 2013