The concept is pretty brilliant and in the hands of meta movie maestros Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (who directed 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie), it’s a pretty damn hilarious loogie in Hollywood’s face that is a welcome source of parody in the midst of a sequel-heavy summer movie season. So, it does all those things just to prove the point. ![]() ![]() It’s a movie that knows bigger isn’t better, that repeating tropes never leads to improvement, and that the entire project has no reason to exist other than to copy past success. This is a meta comedy piss-take on the idea of Hollywood sequels. To attempt to do it again is insane and yet the sequel works entirely because the folks behind 22 Jump Street understand that fact better than anyone. ![]() The fact that the 21 Jump Street movie worked was a miracle.
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