The new, hightech HQ at 22 Jump features a Vietnamese Jesus outside. But headquarters has moved across the street. Look at the title: 22 Jump Street refers to the new address where undercover cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) still take orders barked by Capt. It laughs at its own dumb logic and invites us in on the fun. 22 Jump Street is damn funny, sometimes outrageously so. I’m not trying to make a term paper out of a throwaway summer farce. How so? Because 22 Jump Street explodes the whole concept of franchise filmmaking and then studies the shards to figure out why audiences are always panting to see the same damn thing over and over. If there is such a thing as a meta-sequel, then this flagrantly silly and self-aware follow-up to 2012’s 21 Jump Street is it.
