Jumping on the bandwagon of revamping old TV shows, this big screen version of the show from the late 80s/early 90s that is mostly remembered as being a springboard for Johnny Depp's career, is a slap-dash buddy movie with a puerile streak. I never saw the TV series, so it is difficult to know whether or not the film's tone is anything like the original series, but the basic concept is the same - two youthful cops are recruited to go undercover in high school.

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play the nerdy, bright Schmidt and the handsome, slow-witted Jenko who first meet at high-school, where they are diametrical opposites. When they meet again at Police Academy, they have more time for each other and become buddies; Schmidt helps Jenko academically, while Jenko encourages Schmidt physically. After an incompetent and failed drug-bust, the deflated duo are transferred undercover and sent back to high-school to identify the supplier and distributor of a new dangerous party drug that is spreading like wild-fire.

None of it believable, of course and Hill and Tatum have their new identities switched, with the mathematical whiz being sent to drama class and sports and the athletic dumbbell finding himself in chemistry class. The humour is pretty lame, so leave your brain at the door, but there are some funny juxtapositions - like the stretch limo chase scene and the madcap sequence in which Hill, dressed like Peter Pan and Tatum, dressed like a chemical equation are making their escape from a gang of bikies.

Ice Cube plays Captain Dickson, the self-declared black angry man in charge of the undercover agents and Dave Franco (younger brother of James, and looking just like him) is the school's drug supplier. Brie Larson is likeable as Molly, the object of Schmidt's desires who returns his feelings, but has to wait for him to pluck up the courage to follow through.

It's funny and entertaining enough to make a difference as the idea that the two unlikely buddies rub off on each other positively is not all bad as this is a humorous side to action thriller which makes it more exciting.

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