You’re meant to cry out, “That’s so gay!” - but with delight instead of derision. Here, the overarching comic idea - the Alpha Gag - is that men of action are, like, seriously into each other. They hit the same jokes over and over, but they’re smart enough to know which ones will play the fifth, fifteenth, and fiftieth time. They create almost nothing from scratch their talent is for juggling tropes. The directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, are fresh off this year’s The Lego Movie, and they’re no longer just filmmakers - they’re meta-filmmakers. If the 2012 film 21 Jump Street was less a remake of the earnest late ‘80s cop show than a good-natured goof on it, the sequel, 22 Jump Street, goes even further in the direction of unrealism: It’s full-bore camp - a buddy-cop burlesque.
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