Now, tolerance is cool, bullying is uncouth, and the popular kids (headed by Dave Franco) all look like well-coiffed extras from the Disney Channel. That’s why their first big assignment after graduating from police academy - to infiltrate a high-school drug ring - feels less like punishment than a chance for a “do-over.” Older and wiser, the mismatched partners plan to apply the lessons learned the first time around to the case, only to discover that things have changed since they were in school. Jocks like Jenko (Tatum) had it relatively easy, though both were forced to sit out prom. High school was hell for Schmidt (Hill), a book-smart outcast with braces and a bad Eminem-style dye job. Pair him with Tatum, 31, and there’s no way teens would mistake the duo as two of their own - a paradox that sets the tone for the film’s patently absurdist approach, which uses our willing acceptance of ridiculous genre conventions as a clothesline on which to hang its ruthlessly immature sense of humor. Now 28, the star has shed his baby fat and appears undeniably adult. Hill, who pitched the pic’s producers on attempting “21 Jump Street” as an action-comedy, was 23 when he shot “Superbad,” and already he looked too old to pass as a high schooler.
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