They mix up their names, and Schmidt gets the no-brainer classes where he auditions for Peter Pan and falls in love with Wendy; Jenko gets AP classes where he falls in with high-achieving dweebs.

AUSTIN, Texas — When the first trailer for 21 Jump Street was released late last ... wrong and wind up in car chases, shootouts and Peter Pan costumes along the way. The film does a good job ...

An unbridled, self-aware goofiness propels “21 Jump Street,“ an enterprise that ... car chase during which Hill is wearing a Peter Pan costume and Tatum is dressed as a molecule, complete ...

Now add “21 Jump Street” to the short list ... The humor comes from not only preposterous situations — a “Peter Pan” performance gone awry, an all-guns-blazing prom night, a tussle ...

By Miles Beller On April 12, 1987, Fox aired a two-hour Sunday night premiere of undercover cop series 21 Jump Street ... cops (played by Holly Robinson, Peter DeLuise, Dustin Nguyen) and heads ...

They prefer Schmidt, the anti-bully who fearlessly dons tights to star in a musical of Peter Pan and actually has a shot at nailing his Wendy (Brie Larson). 21 Jump Street throws way more balls in ...

21 Jump Street (Sony Pictures ... starts a flirtation with Schmidt when he’s cast as Peter Pan opposite her Wendy in the school play. As for Jenko, who barely graduated from the police academy ...

But somehow, against the odds, 21 Jump Street works on just about every ... of originality and just laugh at the site of Hill in a Peter Pan costume or Tatum having an invisible light-sabre ...

Still, 21 Jump Street remains on far surer footing when being comedic, rather than going for all-action action. Perhaps the centrepiece is a quite brilliant amateur production of Peter Pan ...