Comments on: 21 Jump Street

By: Magic Mike » DVDs Worth Watching

Magic Mike » DVDs Worth Watching — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:20:11 +0000

[...] there’s Tatum. He’s quite a dancer, and between this and 21 Jump Street, I’m really beginning to appreciate him as an actor as well. He’s great with comedy [...]

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:15:57 +0000

No Dustin Nguyen?

I can wait.

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:59:31 +0000

Although, on the other hand, I appreciate seeing when overweight characters are more than comic relief (Ha! He eats alot!) or the sad and lonely reject (Nobody likes me cause I am fat).

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:57:09 +0000

Heh. Yeah, he has lost a lot of weight. I specified the “fat” part because it seems so tied to the persona that got cultivated around him. As a fat person, I am a bit underwhelmed by the cheap character route of “Outsider because he’s overweight”. I felt like in more than one film, it was a part of a persona meant to make him more relateable…but his characters are so often cruel and mean jerks. I could not understand why Michael Cera would want to be his friend in Superbad…he was just awful to people. And I was supposed to like this kid and find him funny?!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:56:41 +0000

He’s not particularly loud-mouthed here, if that helps, or fat, since there are a number of sequences that required him to be active.

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:38:16 +0000

I am surprised at the positive reaction I saw to a film I expected to get trashed from every corner…yet, it seems a lot of reviewers did in fact like it enough to get me thinking I should give it a chance afterall.

I don’t mind hill…but his loud mouthed fat kid routine got really old really fast… I think he has the potential to be more than the stock character he has settled into (mean, abrasive)…I thought he was one of the best things in Get Him to the Greek, where he played the straight man.