21 Jump Street admits from the start, in a nicely timed and very meta joke, ... a genuinely fun party scene and a ridiculous fight taking place during a performance of Peter Pan, ...

With 21 Jump Street, they’ve simply made a really great action-comedy, something almost like Lethal Weapon for the Superbad generation (thank Hill’s story and Michael Bacall‘s wonderful ...

The scene in which he joins the nerd side, light sabring away with the uncool kids is an absolute delight. ... 21 Jump Street can also boast the best use of Ice Cube in a decade or two, ...

“21 Jump Street” has lots of terrific supporting performances: Cube kills every scene he’s in with his profane, volcanic anger, and Dave Franco, younger brother of James, channels a ...

PHOTOS: The Scene at SXSW 2012. ... Actor Richard Grieco makes an entrance at the premiere of 21 Jump Street on March 13. Grieco played Officer Dennis Booker in the original series in 1987.

I’ll admit it. I groaned inwardly when I first heard they were making a 21 Jump Street movie. There was even some communal, commiserative groaning in a conversation or two with movie-going friends.

Reprieve comes in the shape of the revival of 21 Jump Street, a long-cancelled undercover police programme that saw police officers posing as High School pupils to terminate youth crime at its source.