SPOTLIGHT Saturday-Sunday, March 17-18, 2012 | Editor: Eli Pace | 270-887-3235 | [email protected] ‘Jump Street’ update manages some laughs BY DAVID GERMAIN THE AP MOVIE WRITER ASSOCIATED PRESS In this film image released by Paramount Vantage, Jason Segel plays Jeff The TV show that made Johnny in a scene from “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.” Depp a star is little more than a jumping-off point for the big- screen “21 Jump Street,” a rowdy, raunchy update that aims for ‘Jeff’ a sweet, slight laughs over action and delivers them intermittently. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are surprisingly amusing together comic adventure in a mismatched pairing of newbie cops sent undercover as high BY CHRISTY LEMIRE there are no coincidences, school kids to root out a drug ring. THE AP MOVIE CRITIC that everything happens A couple of guest appearances for a reason if you’re will- from the TV show almost make the Mark Duplass has said ing to open your mind and movie worth seeing on their own that he and his brother, Jay, pay attention to the daily (the identity of the cameo perps look to the veteran Belgian details that can determine has been widely reported, but we filmmaking brothers Jean- your fate. won’t name names here; even if Pierre and Luc Dardenne And so a simple errand you’ve read about them, the way for artistic inspiration, for his widowed, enabling they pop up will be a nice sur- with their naturalistic, doc- mother (Susan Sarandon prise). umentary-style approach in a lovely, understated per- The R-rated gross-out humor, to telling feature stories. formance) to pick up some language and violence don’t add up That’s evident once again wood glue at the hardware to the “21 Jump Street” you might in “Jeff, Who Lives at store turns into a weird fondly remember. But then, other Home,” a sweet, slight tale than for Depp’s presence, how and winding adventure in- told with simple intimacy volving pick-up basketball, many people fondly remember the and a deadpan tone to its show, anyway? amateur sleuthing and an absurd humor. Not much elusive man named Kevin This is not a property requiring ASSOCIATED PRESS happens over a meander- respect and devotion to the source In this film image released by Columbia Pictures (from left), Ice Cube, Jonah Hill and Chan- who may hold the key to ing day in suburban Baton today’s true destination. material to satisfy longtime fans, ning Tatum are shown in a scene from “21 Jump Street.” Rouge, La., but it all builds The Duplasses create the so the filmmakers wisely make a to a climax that makes the sensation that we’re just “21 Jump Street” all their own. journey worthwhile. And it screenwriter Michael Bacall, but Hill and Tatum’s odd-couple act following along wherever They dump the idea on its head, reveals that between this what little actual story is here is the best thing about “21 Jump Jeff takes us, without judg- poke not-so-polite fun at the origi- and the 2010 comedy serves only as the setup for an any- Street,” both playing the straight ment. nal and offer a spot-on summation man yet managing to make their “Cyrus,” the Duplass of Hollywood’s vapid approach to thing-goes approach by the cast Still, for a frequently silly partnership much funnier than the brothers have figured out remakes, couching the commen- and directors Phil Lord and comedy, one of the funniest hit-and-miss jokes and action re- how to continue placing tary in cop jabber about reviving Christopher Miller (making their and most memorable ele- ally are. their signature, improvisa- LA’s moribund program that live-action debut after collaborat- tional, indie stamp as writ- ments is unabashedly ro- places youthful-looking police ing on the animated hit “Cloudy The movie’s nimble pacing also mantic: Jeff and Pat’s helps, sneaking in some slick, wily ers and directors, even as moles in high schools. with a Chance of Meatballs”). they keep making bigger mom, Sharon, has a secret tidbits and powering through the Two of the recruits are Hill’s Everything about the movie — studio films with well- admirer at work, and the many gags that would fall flat if Morton Schmidt and Tatum’s Greg the car chases, the shootouts, the known actors. way this enlivens her you had another second or two to Jenko. A brisk, clever prologue teen kegger, the goofy idiocy of the Jason Segel plays the tit- dreary, cubicle-dwelling think about them. spells out their back-story, Schmidt characters — is pushed to the ex- ular character, a 30-year- doldrums is nothing short It doesn’t work all of the time, or of magical. She seems will- as a high school uber-geek, Jenko treme. Some of the absurd violence old, pot-smoking slacker even most of the time, but it does ing to open herself to what as a dopey stud, with the two be- is funny, some is pointlessly mean who still lives in the base- coming unlikely best buddies years work enough of the time to make the universe is trying to tell and nasty enough to jar viewers ment of his childhood later at the police academy. “21 Jump Street” more enjoyable home. (A side note: New her, too, for the first time in out of the action now and then. Sent back to school as under- than most of Hollywood’s unimag- Orleans natives Jay and a long time. cover brothers, the two flash back Ice Cube pops in occasionally inative remakes and updates. Mark Duplass moved back “Jeff, Who Lives at on old teen anxieties and en- with some foul-mouthed fun as “21 Jump Street,” released by into their parents’ house Home,” a Paramount Van- counter plenty of new ones as they Schmidt and Jenko’s perpetually Sony’s Columbia Pictures, is rated with their own families tage release, is rated R for struggle to fit in while tracing the seething police captain, while Brie R for crude and sexual content, while shooting on loca- language including sexual source of a dangerous new hallu- Larson is adorably fetching as the pervasive language, drug material, tion.) But Jeff is a thinker references and some drug cinogen that erodes users’ inhibi- high-school hottie Schmidt might teen drinking and some violence. and a dreamer. Inspired by use. Running time: 82 min- tions in insanely comical fashion. actually have a shot with this time Running time: 109 minutes. Two the M. Night Shyamalan utes. Three stars out of Hill shares story credit with around. and a half stars out of four. movie “Signs,” he believes four.

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