21 Jump Street should have been fucking terrible, but guess what? It was fucking great. Which means everyone with a sense of humor is looking forward to 22 Jump Street, a sequel that has the laziest title in the world, but also a sequel that has the same directors and the same writer as the first film, and still has Jonah Hill and Chatum, and has a new red-band trailer that just made me laugh harder than most of the comedies I saw this year.

Things I like about this: That, like the first film, everybody’s being delightfully straight-up about how hacky of a premise for a movie this is; that this film’s plot looks to be an exact duplicate of the first film’s plot, thus leaving more time for hijinx and bullshittery; that there’s a weird Bad Boys sort of vibe to this. I also like that they reminded me of that time that guy got his dick shot off in the first movie! I took my mom to see 21 Jump Street when I was home for Christmas in whatever year it came out; I’ve never seen my mom laugh so hard as when that guy got his dick shot off.

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.

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