Lord and Miller’s film bubbles with an endearing earnestness, a proud refusal to succumb to the all-out irony of the post-Family Guy age of comedy, and always seems more interested in having fun than taking pot shots.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2024

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

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

As frequent and riotous as the laughs are, the film’s recycling of self-aware commentary on its own status as a sequel is tiring.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Once again, Lord & Miller ... have done stupidity brilliantly.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 31, 2021

The end credit sequence, which maps out the next sequels from number 3 to installment 43 - they go to Beauty and Magic School among other places of higher learning - is probably the funniest part of the movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Attempts to mask lazy plot points and floundering dialogue as clever self-referential wittiness.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's safe to say that it has been quite awhile since a film this messy has also been such an absolute blast.

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

A mere shadow of the first film to be sure, there are glaring flaws, and jokes take way too long to play out and don't pay off considering the investment, but if you're looking for a raucous comedy fix, this fits the bill well enough.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020

The movie pokes fun at [action movie conventions], yet tries to stay its own entity. Unfortunately, try as it may, it can't completely rise above being just a sequel the way you feel it wants. And you can really feel it trying.

| Jun 29, 2020

If there's a funnier comedy sequel than 22 Jump Street, it probably didn't suggest the studio should market an at-home children's shooting game with phalluses as the targets. So, 22 Jump Street wins.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 6, 2019

You can almost hear Lord and Miller giggling to the audience "can you believe they're actually paying us to do this?" We can. And it's absolutely worth it. This is one refreshingly smart comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

22 Jump Street is belly-aching, mickey-taking, cinema-shaking summer comedy at its very best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2019

22 Jump Street is hugely successful in retaining -- and in many instances, improving upon -- the qualities of it predecessor and pitching some jokes that will still have people chuckling for days afterwards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2019

Tatum and Hill share remarkably good chemistry and both fall back into their respective roles of lovable if slightly dim jock and self-conscious nerd with ease.

| Mar 5, 2019

Proving that sometimes a second helping is nearly as satisfying as the first, "22 Jump Street" doesn't stray far from the formula that made "21 Jump Street" a success -- and takes pride in providing more of the same.

| Feb 1, 2019

Yes, there are other characters involved; but the nicest thing I can say about them is that they were forgettable.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 12, 2018

There's a slightly wearing tyranny in the film's insatiable, gurning desire to be congratulated on its postmodern 'cleverness' at nearly every stage of its duration.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2018

22 Jump Street transcends the expectations of the Hollywood sequel by picking it apart bit by bit and then reassembling it into something new but familiar.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 1, 2018

22 Jump Street has an infectious pair of less-than-stellar cops and when Hill and Tatum are onscreen together, the movie works.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 23, 2018

There's much to love in this well-made film, there's plenty of talent and zing and love for the project. It's also a good movie and blockbuster bait. Its layered gags are genius and the stars are summer magic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2018