Freeview film of the day: 22 Jump Street

Cops Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are given an undercover assignment at college, but will their bromance survive unscathed?

This competition is now closed

Monday, 6th February 2017 at 11:01 pm

22 Jump Street ★★★★
9.00-11.15pm 5STAR

British TV audiences never got to see the original youthful TV series 21 Jump Street in the late 1980s and early 90s, but the belated movie spin-offs are irresistible. In the first film, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill played the jock/nerd friends who, on graduation from police academy, were assigned to an undercover job at a high school. In this follow-up, they’re posing as college students, there to sniff out another deadly new drug. Tatum and Hill’s on-screen chemistry remains strong, providing endless, simple-minded fun, this time involving fraternities and Spring Break. Returning cameos from Ice Cube, Nick Offerman, Rob Riggle and Dave Franco helped the film to a ridiculous $330 million take, outgrossing the original. A third film will merge with the Men in Black franchise. Seriously.

For more of today’s free-to-air films, see our TV listings