# They made a movie out of "21 Jump Street!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686 "2012-02-23T02:49:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/1 "2012-02-23T02:49:57Z")
[Trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0mo_oJfn4&feature=youtube_gdata_player) Sweet Zombie Jesus, is this gonna blow. I loved Jump Street back in the day, and this movie doesn’t resemble the show in any way. I stopped watching the trailer halfway through. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/2 "2012-02-23T20:27:30Z")
Yeah that looked pretty awful. It’s obvious the original script was unrelated to _21 Jump Street_ and the name was attached for “brand recognition”. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/3 "2012-02-23T21:36:15Z")
At least the movie doesn’t take seriously the idea of twentysomething (or even thirtysomething) police officers posing as high school students. The film seems to be intended as a comedy. (Whether or not it succeeds is a different question.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/4 "2012-02-23T22:00:51Z")
Looks like Jonah Hill was losing weight during the filming, which will be a weird continuity mess. Also, looks painfully unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/5 "2012-02-23T22:04:21Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Yeah that looked pretty awful. It’s obvious the original script was unrelated to _21 Jump Street_ and the name was attached for “brand recognition”. Well, aside from Johnny Depp, who has a cameo as his old character from the show, Tommy Hanson. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/6 "2012-02-23T23:16:55Z")
yeah, this is gonna suck like a black hole. I saw Holly Robinson in the trailer also. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/7 "2012-02-23T23:32:20Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Yeah that looked pretty awful. It’s obvious the original script was unrelated to _21 Jump Street_ and the name was attached for “brand recognition”. ..Huh? It uses the premise of the show. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/8 "2012-02-24T00:01:02Z")
They’re doing a _Starsky and Hutch_ on it - take an old, serious TV show and rewrite it as a comedy, and throw in some cameo’s of the original cast. I expect this new movie to be as funny as the S&H one - not very. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/9 "2012-02-24T02:53:03Z")
I’ll wait for the reviews. Could be funny. The original series went off the air 20+ years ago and wasn’t big in syndication. I think it’s fair to say that most fans are outside of the target demographic for the new movie. ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/10 "2012-02-24T03:27:34Z")
It looks hilarious to me ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/11 "2012-02-24T08:45:21Z")
I’m seeing a plateful of fail, and I am so over Jonah Hill. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/12 "2012-02-24T10:26:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > At least the movie doesn’t take seriously the idea of twentysomething (or even thirtysomething) police officers posing as high school students. The film seems to be intended as a comedy. (Whether or not it succeeds is a different question.) There is a thread in the pit that references this exact thing happening recently, and yes it was to bust kids for joints.:rolleyes: It happens in real life so I mean… ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/13 "2012-02-24T16:22:19Z")
90% of Americans Unable to Recognize Jonah Hill After Weight Loss (Not sure if that is an actual Onion headline or just should be one.) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/14 "2012-02-24T16:56:06Z")
Well, I do recall a thread in this forum about how horrible Rise of the Planet of the Apes was going to be after watching the preview and it turned out to be one of the best movies of the year, so I think I will withhold judgement. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/15 "2012-02-24T23:49:39Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Well, I do recall a thread in this forum about how horrible Rise of the Planet of the Apes was going to be after watching the preview and it turned out to be one of the best movies of the year, so I think I will withhold judgement. Previews of X-Men First Class had me convinced it would blow more than a hurricane, yet I watched it anyway and surprisingly it blew me away. But I still think this one’s gonna suck. If Jonah Hill wants to be in this kinda movie, they should just expand that commercial he had for some video game a few months ago. Now THAT I’d wanna see. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/16 "2012-02-25T09:43:46Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > They’re doing a _Starsky and Hutch_ on it - take an old, serious TV show and rewrite it as a comedy, and throw in some cameo’s of the original cast. > > I expect this new movie to be as funny as the S&H one - not very. I thought the original show as pretty funny, really. Sure, they’d take the drug busting seriously, but it was sprinkled throughout with a lot of comedy. Or at least, that’s how I remember it. The McQuade Bros! ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-made-a-movie-out-of-21-jump-street/613686/17 "2012-02-25T11:12:41Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > I’m seeing a plateful of fail, and I am so over Jonah Hill. You mean Academy Award Nominee Jonah Hill? Proof that the End Times are upon us.