Nostalgic familiarity is of very minor importance in enjoying a film that is often inspired, frequently insane and always very, very funny.Ģ1 Jump Street is a very weird comedy. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter if you’ve never even heard the name before. Certainly it’s no cultural touchstone for ‘The Kids’, who make up much of the target audience for this. The title 21 Jump Street probably means very little to most people under 30, particularly in Britain, where the 1980s Johnny Depp-starring cop show, in which patently adult police officers posed as teenagers to solve crime, never caught on in quite the way it did in America.
