Setting the promising tone is a prologue taking place back in high school circa 2005, with Hill’s nerdy Schmidt taking fashion cues from Eminem (with not-so-Slim Shady results) and Tatum’s cool but clueless Jenko establishing an early adversarial relationship.Ĭut to the present, with both graduating from the police academy and, after a botched first arrest, being reassigned to the long-dormant Jump Street unit overseen by the intimidating Captain Dickson ( Ice Cube, specializing in hilarious, expletive-laden slow burns). The laugh-out-loud upshot - based on a story by Hill and screenwriter Michael Bacall and energetically directed by the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs duo of Phil Lord & Christopher Miller- should nab big numbers for Sony.Īlthough it doesn’t open until March 16, the picture is looking to jump-start word-of-mouth with a March 12 sneak preview at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin. PHOTOS: 10 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years Marvel': What That Post-Credits Visitor Means

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