22 Jump Street
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
Neutral, breathless, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
Our read · 22 Jump Street (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded crime · comedy · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of 22 Jump Street
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