22 Jump Street
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 13, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
Positive:
38
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 12, 2014
A hugely enjoyable shambles. It’s a comic deconstruction of that most useless of Hollywood artifacts — the blockbuster sequel — that refuses to take itself seriously on any level, which, face it, is just what we need as the summer boom-boom season shifts into high gear. Read full review
83
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanJun 12, 2014
“22” merits a B grade. The long final credits, in which Dickson imagines dozens of future scenarios for the undercover boys, kicks it up one notch. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianJeff BakerJun 12, 2014
Just think back to everything that was funny in "21 Jump Street." It's exactly the same. Read full review
83
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 3, 2014
Suffice it to say that it is a cannily-constructed film, and it does have a bigger "movie" feel than the first film. There are places where they swing for some big jokes that don't quite work, but the ambition is dizzying all the way through. Read full review
83
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonJun 2, 2014
22 Jump Street might not be quite as good as "21 Jump Street," but it's remarkably close, to the point where subsequent viewings could see it elevated above its predecessor. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 12, 2014
A great deal of insanity ensues, none of which would work if Tatum and Hill weren't so disarming in their roles. Their level of comfort with the characters and each other helps 22 click. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 12, 2014
More is more and is, at times, just right in 22 Jump Street, an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 11, 2014
22 Jump Street is, ultimately, a celebration of the silly and the sweet, a combination that's welcome again and again. Read full review
80
Film.comJordan HoffmanJun 9, 2014
22 Jump Street is a success, as there is a little good ol’ fashioned “heart” beneath its post-modern veneer. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamJun 8, 2014
Bigger and better – 22 Jump Street joins the exclusive list of sequels that out-gun their originals. We’re already knocking at the door of no.23. Read full review
80
EmpireNick de SemlyenJun 8, 2014
Rare is the film that understands the pleasures of letting an enraged Ice Cube take out his wrath on an all-you-can-eat buffet. And which other blockbuster in 2014 would interrupt its climactic car chase to lob in a gag about Benny Hill? Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 6, 2014
It certainly provides that rarest of things: relaxing enjoyment. In all its uncompromising goofiness, 22 Jump Street brings onstream a sugar-rush of entertainment. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyJun 5, 2014
This excellent film is a sequel and knows it, and wants us to know that it knows it. Read full review
80
CineVueBen NicholsonJun 3, 2014
22 Jump Street is hugely successful in retaining - and in many instances, improving upon - the qualities of it predecessor and pitching some jokes that will still have people chuckling for days afterwards. Read full review
80
TheWrapInkoo KangJun 3, 2014
A few of the self-referential gags get recycled one too many times, but an exuberant buoyancy — and the belly-laugh-a-minute pacing of the jokes — makes 22 Jump Street a hilarious highpoint of an already quite funny summer season. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJun 3, 2014
It's laugh-packed, self-aware in a manner that lets everyone in on the joke, and goofily satisfying in the action department. Read full review
80
VarietyScott FoundasJun 3, 2014
22 Jump Street hits far more often than it misses, and even when it misses by a mile, the effort is so delightfully zany that it’s hard not to give Lord and Miller an “A” for effort. Read full review
75
NPRBob MondelloJun 13, 2014
Filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who are themselves impressive partners at this point) know enough not to mess with a successful formula. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJun 13, 2014
It's a self-aware movie that makes fun of the macho clichés it indulges. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 12, 2014
This is a sequel that wears its well-worn formula, mocking inside jokes and gleeful taste for overkill proudly, flying the high-lowbrow flag for audiences that like their comedy just smart enough to be not-too-dumb. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 12, 2014
The car chases are unremarkable, but the stunts — which comically juxtapose Tatum's athletic grace and Hill's stocky clumsiness — are a hoot. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 12, 2014
Thanks to this team of merry pranksters, 22 Jump Street hurts so good. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 12, 2014
22 Jump Street is exactly what comedy is today. It's coarse, free-flowing and playful. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 12, 2014
The sharp writing and tag-team antics lift 22 Jump Street to a high level. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 12, 2014
The movie wouldn’t work, of course, without the chemistry between Hill and Tatum, an unlikely duo who share a tremendous charisma. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 12, 2014
Be sure to hang around for the closing credits, which imagine all sorts of "Jump Street" sequels to come. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 12, 2014
22 Jump Street is a mixed bag of clever spoofery and miscalculated outrageousness. The unveiled homoeroticism of practically all interaction between Jenko and Schmidt is amusing to the point when it isn't. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 11, 2014
A comedy about sequels. Like its predecessor, the movie continually teeters on the edge of breaking through the fourth wall. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerJun 11, 2014
There are certainly a lot of actors who can match Hill and Tatum as comic actors, but it’s the oddball connection between these two that makes for a very entertaining couple of hours at the movies. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 11, 2014
This comedy produces the biggest, loudest laughs of any movie this summer. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid DenbyJun 16, 2014
22 Jump Street is hardly fresh, but the picture has enough energy to get by. Read full review
70
TimeRichard CorlissJun 12, 2014
The best comic turns are by the Afro-Asian twins Keith and Kenny Lucas, whose timing is eerie and superb. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 12, 2014
The repetitions are meant as a sort of metajoke, and it works well enough, more often than not, though heightened levels of raunch and chaos seem not so much meta as frantic. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasJun 11, 2014
22 Jump Street squeezes every last drop of comic inspiration it can get from Tatum and Hill, as well as the very notion of a sequel to such a superfluous enterprise. Read full review
70
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJun 5, 2014
22 Jump Street isn't uncharitable or mean-spirited; at worst, it's just confused. Tatum is, predictably, adorable. His Jenko is a pumped-up naïf bumbling through life with a crooked smile, and Hill again makes a great sparring partner. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 11, 2014
To cover up the script's lack of originality, screenwriters Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel, and Rodney Rothman pummel us with a string of self-aware meta-commentary jokes that poke fun at bloated sequels. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 13, 2014
There are times when 22 Jump Street is borderline brilliant. Unfortunately, those instances are outnumbered by segments that don't work for one reason or another. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJun 13, 2014
22 Jump Street's scattershot approach to comedy is rooted in the belief that for every anatomical, scatalogical, sexual, or pop-cultural reference and pun gone awry, another will stick to the wall like, um, bodily fluid. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 13, 2014
Here's the crazy thing, though. Against all odds, it works. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 13, 2014
At its best, 22 Jump Street is less an action comedy than a loosely plotted revue, and though it’s not as witty as either Joe Dante’s "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" or Edgar Wright’s "Hot Fuzz" (in which the directors evinced genuine love for their chosen genres), it’s sure as hell better than a straight buddy-cop sequel. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 12, 2014
22 Jump Street is the good-natured, sloppily rendered pile of balderdash for that moment, a movie that’s immune to all criticism and not worth bothering to dislike. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 12, 2014
The laughs are what keep the film together, even when the conceit feels been-there-done-that. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJun 3, 2014
22 Jump Street knows how to play to its strengths: Tatum’s performance here is even more puppy-dog lovable than last time, and his scenes with Hill possess a goofy, low-key warmth too often lacking in big-budget comedy. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackJun 11, 2014
An unusually fun and funny film. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithJun 11, 2014
What’s the difference between “21 Jump Street” and 22 Jump Street? Same as the difference between getting a 21 and a 22 at blackjack. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyJun 9, 2014
As funny and batshit insane as the movie often is, the fact that 22 Jump Street knows it's a tiresome sequel doesn't save it from being a tiresome sequel, even as Lord and Miller struggle to conceal the bitter pill of convention in the sweet tapioca pudding of wall-to-wall jokes. Read full review
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