22 Jump Street 4K 2014 Ultra HD 2160p

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Officers Schmidt and Jenko now have to work undercover at a local college. However, when Genko meets a soul mate on the soccer team, and Schmidt infiltrates a bohemian environment, they begin to question their camaraderie.

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More hopeless than the thought of making a comedy film based on 21 Jump Street can only be the creation of a continuation of this obscurantism. But this time there was a minimum of skepticism - after all, the directors here are Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, masters of hopeless ideas. Because of Lego. Film "they did not work on the script for" Jump Street, 22 "until the beginning of filming, but among the authors was still Michael Bacall, who wrote the first part. For the first time I really waited for their film and purposefully went to the cinema for it at the first opportunity.

The beginning of the first viewing was a bit controversial. Not even quite so - the intro is great. The "earlier at 21 Jump Street" cut with out of nowhere footage of a parody of the crustacean scene from Annie Hall bribed me right away. It is unlikely that my brother and his wife, with whom I then went to the cinema, understood this joke. According to the directors' assurances, many of the youth did not understand it at all. But she is here, which already says what the film is and for whom it is.

Then comes an amazing in its stupidity and spectacular mission to stop the villain, played by the master of his craft, Peter Stromare, with obvious pleasure pronouncing the nostalgic remarks for the days of gangsterism of the 90s. But then doubts began - whether the creators are going too far with irony about the fact that this is a sequel?

Of course, it's nice to see Nick Offerman chastising our heroes Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmitd (John Hill) for their impenetrable stupidity again and kicking them back into the Jump Street implementation program. Or the fact that they are moving to a nearby building in order to justify the very name of the tape. Or that their new office is a lot more beautiful thanks to increased funding. How easy it is to overdo it - I felt scared for the film.

But, thank God, this did not happen. You have to understand that "Jump Street, 22" is nothing more than a love letter to the very concept of a sequel. Just think - there are two deuces in the title at once. This is hardly a coincidence. It has everything that we usually get from sequels - cameos from the past, repetitions of particularly cool things, and so on. But there is also what good sequels should do: character development and a truly new story.

Half of the tape is a reflection on the fact that you cannot just repeat what you have gone through, you need to go further. This idea is supported by all the components: the main characters, their relationships with others and with each other, a new environment for implementation, now not deceiving the expectations of the characters and even their very investigation. College turns out to be a great place to grow up, while at the same time giving an even greater scope for infantilism. I love paradoxes.

In its structure, the film resembles another sequel - "Bad Boys 2". Just like there, you don't even really expect that history will suddenly start happening on an island in the Caribbean (even if all the promotional materials talked about this directly), where a powerful climax will take place. When I left the cinema, this thought enthralled me in the first place. But I did not find understanding among those with whom I went. Sometimes it sucks to be a geek.

And in any case, this is not the main advantage of the picture. It, like every good comedy, is that it's funny. For me, this is primarily a victory for Channing Tatum. He is outrageously beautiful. From the scene when he finds out about the "elephant in the room" between his partner and the boss, I laughed at how little in my entire life. Even after writing this now and remembering Channing's antics, I chuckled softly. And his apologies for the fact that he used to be a "homophone" and his explanations to the bandit, how you can and cannot call gay people, just won me over. As well as the enumeration of the characters of "Dasha the Traveler" when he pretended to be Mexican. Without a doubt, after 22 Jump Street, he became one of my favorite actors.

Jonah Hill this time faded a little into the background. But that's a good thing, because thanks to the interaction of his character with others, we got both a cute girlfriend from college from Amber Stevens, and her not so pleasant, but therefore hilarious dorm room, played by Gillian Bell. But the funniest chemistry he has is with Ice Cube, who this time just burns with napalm.

For the most part, the sequel has less "explosive" humor, sometimes leaning towards more subtle and meta-jokes. Alas, not everyone appreciated it, but I liked it. This is simply more interesting and more enjoyable on repeat views. And with the fact that the chase on the beach and the helicopter flight are more spectacular than the culmination of the first part, I think no one will argue.

Few comedies I can call my favorites - it's just not a genre where I can find what I could call a masterpiece or something close to it. I think I was very lucky with 22 Jump Street, because I can still count this film among them. Let the picture at the end of the second act openly sag - this is easily forgiven compared to the rest of the moments, where the rhythm is always verified.

I would especially like to highlight the music. Mark Mathersbau, a constant composer of directors since their full-length debut, as always done well, there is no question here. But the selected songs are also pleasing. Mostly these are stupid, tasteless club hits that I usually don't have much love for. Nevertheless, the official album on the film with songs I simply wiped out from numerous auditions, and for three years I still have not bothered. Though thoughts about what a terrible taste I have in music began to come more and more often.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention the end credits. They simply cannot be ignored, here self-irony and references exceed all permissible norms. We see footage and posters for two dozen likely sequels, including beautiful cameo appearances for Seth Rogen and Bill Hader. This is how to finish the tape is the highest class. Didn't I get it: 39 Jump Street is a movie or a board game? Or just the film itself was not shown, only the game? Alas, there are still no perfect things.