Opinion Piece
22 Jump Street

          Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah hill) are on the hunt to solve a drug case but, are sent off to college by their director Ice Cube. We all know there is nothing but, lectures, parties, sports, dorm life and mostly, hooking up with girls! Like most teenage boys do when they enter college. However, the two stars Jenko and Schmidt are about to experience this while they also try to solve the drug case as undercover police officers.

          They separate for a while due to different identities which they experience during the duration of the film. Originally, they are thought to have the same identity but as you watch the film you find out that their physical appearance and attitude towards things you notice that they are completely different. Schmidt likes being the calm guy chilling with a pretty girl drinking wine, not partying and nightclubs with dudes and playing football. This is what Jenko likes doing. Schmidt is chunky, short blond hair and is average height, Jenko is tall, built and has short dirty blond hair with very broad shoulders.

          In the movie, I find that one of the big problems and lessons that they teach is that when you go to college know your reason on going. Is it for partying and hanging out with chicks all night? Or is it for solving a drug case as an undercover policeman? One of the main problems in this particular movie would be distraction. Schmidt hooks up with his director’s daughter not knowing who she really is. He sees her sitting alone on a bench at night and has a nice conversation with her. He makes her smile and giggle, just what a guy tries to do when he wants a girl’s attention, right? Schmidt tries to tell Jenko that they have different identities, he notices that they have two completely different cliques. Jenko’s group are the people that drink all night and play beer pong while Schmidt’s group are the ones who hang out at the art studio and drink wine while socializing with their friends having meaningful conversations that they can remember the next morning.

          Another problem I have noticed, is that they face a lot of hard challenges and help each other to overcome those challenges. It sends a message to the viewers that sometimes when things are hard in life, you just need a true friend. Jenko chooses to stay at the college and accept his scholarship to play football. He chooses to stay with his group of friends that do not so good things while Schmidt chooses to try and do his job and stay on task. Meanwhile, Jenko and Schmidt meet up after the horrifying news that Ice Cubes daughter was the one that Schmidt was with. After finding out he was dating his director’s daughter and being dumped he chooses to go back to Jenko. They find each other in a field of bright green grass one morning and try to accomplish their goal together. They manage to shoot the bad guys that have been after them since the beginning of the movie and set a bomb off in order for the bad guys to die.

          Overall, I found this movie interesting as it had a bit of a twist to it. It ended with a cliffhanger making you want to watch the third one, when they go to medical school. I wondered what would change if they went there and if they would be better at finding the drug case. Maybe, they would be more focused in med school who knows. The movie shows that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. They got the goal in the end after having drunk nights, hangovers and messing up with the director’s daughter. Anything is possible in life, when you put your mind to it and with a good friend who is always by your side. These friends are nothing alike but, their fiction makes them a good team.