The film feels like sitting through acting exercises where everyone is giving it 110% every take.
Writer-director Jim Cummings reinvigorates an oft-told tale with personal, thorny preoccupations.
The film is defined by its straight-faced attachment to outmoded ideas about masculinity and law enforcement.
Smallfoot is ballsy for pushing young viewers to question culturally coded notions of good and evil.
As funny and batshit insane as the movie often is, the fact that 22 Jump Street knows it’s a tiresome sequel doesn’t save it from being a tiresome sequel.