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22 jump street...

Okay so I only recently watched 21 jump street as the missus recommended it, and it whilst not as funny as she or others had made it out to be it was still okay. Sure it was dumb, but it at least made me chuckle a bit. Oh and it's worth pointing out that my favourite part of the movie is the meta humour near the start, where the chief is about to do the classic 'movie title is a line in the movie' and messes it up, or he comments on revving a franchise from the 80's.

I went into the sequel with low expectations as trailers made it look, well worse than the first. The sequel then is more of the same, deliberately so though. Sure there's dumb humour still, and this got the biggest laughs from the audience, but damn this movie is so smart and self aware! Me and my two friends sat laughing solid throughout a good 10/15 minute chunk of the film at the amount of meta humour that was going on. Sadly this seemed to be going completely over the heads of those around us, so far as for a girl sat in front to ask her friend what we were laughing at.

It's not just the one section though, the film is littered with meta moments (especially the incredible end credits) and to me it transformed an at times silly and dumb action comedy into something smart and incredibly self aware. Definitely the best surprise movie for me so far, I can see why others wouldn't find it funny, but I'm a big fan of meta and anything that pokes fun at the industry and itself.