Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		5.0
Audio		4.5
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.5

22 Jump Street 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman September 18, 2020

Sony has released the fan-favorite 2014 Comedy '22 Jump Street' to the UHD format. New specifications include 2160p/HDR video and Dolby Atmos audio. Some new trailers are included on the UHD disc while the bundled Blu-ray, identical to that which Sony released in 2012, includes all of the legacy bonuses.

Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum), fresh off their high school assignment, are given a new task: go to college. They've been assigned as roommates at MC State where a new drug dubbed "WHYPHY" has been spreading across campus. It allows users to study hard for several hours before pushing them to let loose and party harder afterwards. Their goal: track down the dealer and cut off the supply. Their initial foray into higher learning proves mostly successful, but as college tends to do to best friends, they're slowly drawn apart and towards other people. While Jenko develops a bond with a football player named Zook (Wyatt Russell), Schmidt finds himself attracted to a beautiful young art major named Maya (Amber Stevens). Can they hold off the new temptations and stay on task, or will the allure of college life and the strain on their relationship keep them from completing their assignment?

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22 Jump Street 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc.

22 Jump Street's 2160p/HDR UHD presentation impresses in all areas of concern. As with the first film, white balance is one of the first major points of obvious improvement over the Blu-ray. Look at the white board behind the professor at the 1:45 mark, a scene pretty much right out of the gate. On the UHD, the board is crisp, pure, bright, lifelike: a beautiful, precise tone. On the Blu-ray, it looks dreary and depressed: creamy and in no way brilliant. It's a radical transformation in this particular instance and one that carries throughout, rendering white shirts and other accents significantly more realistic. HDR aids in making the whole spectrum appear more balanced and intense. Primaries pop off the screen with extreme depth and intensity alike. Colors are brilliant throughout, whether under bright sunny skies, under interior lighting, through warmer light locations, or in low light. The entire movie is made to appear more crisp and tonally efficient. There's more of a sheen in place here; it's slick and smooth but in no way gaudy.

Per IMDB the film was photographed at a resolution of 2.8K and finished at 2K. Nevertheless, and unlike the first film's UHD, there's a fair bit of added textural crispness and clarity to be found here. Certainly the degree of improvement is not so radical as to see it stand amongst the very best the format has to offer, but fans will be well pleased to find sharper environmental elements, more lifelike facial details, and superior clothing clarity. Faces and hair are the most obvious beneficiaries in close-up; pores and other skin textures enjoy an obvious boost to intimacy while hairs are sharper and more individualized. Sony's UHD takes a very good Blu-ray image and brings the best out of it with this 4K transfer. Add that noise is managed extremely well and that there are no intrusive source or encode anomalies of note and 22 Jump Street makes for a fine UHD top to bottom, start to finish.

22 Jump Street 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

22 Jump Street's Dolby Atmos soundtrack follows in its predecessor's footsteps, delivering a very roomy, robust, and refined audio presentation. The Atmos track brings with it an obvious feel for spacial expansion, unsurprisingly, mostly along the typical plane where the added back channels output much of the new content. Music, environmental supports, and action take full advantage of the surround back channels -- and, of course, all of the other ones -- to create a tighter, more fluid, more fruitful listening experience. The sense of envelopment does not carry to the top end, at least not routinely or discretely. The overheads compliment rather than carry the material, and while the track does not see a steady stream of overwhelming overhead content, the extra support at least means the listener feels more drawn into the experience. And what a fun experience it is. With plenty of swooping sounds, tight discrete effects, and total stage saturation and mayhem, not to mention a well balanced low end support, the track does well by the movie's various sound needs. It's not so dominant as to move into reference territory, but it improves upon the Blu-ray track and offers everything in good, engaging, immersive balance, including front-center and well prioritized dialogue.

22 Jump Street 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

22 Jump Street's UHD contains a plethora of new content (which may have been culled from this release which I do not own and cannot verify) while the bundled Blu-ray brings with it all of the legacy content from the 2014 release. See below of reviews of new content and a listing of the carryover content. Please click here for full coverage of the Blu-ray extras. This release ships with a Movies Anywhere digital copy code as well as a slipcover.

UHD:

• NEW! Big Time Action (1080p, 8:20): Upping the action ante for this sequel, Tatum performing many of his own stunts, making the opening action sequence, and more.
• NEW! How to Fight Funny (1080p, 8:52): The importance of blending humor and action in the film and this franchise with examples of how the film achieves this goal.
• NEW! Ice Cubed (1080p, 7:31): A closer look at Cube's character and place in the film and the franchise.
• NEW! Dick Graze (1080p, 1:49): Tatum and Bell introduce their very personal way of saying "hello" via rap song.
• NEW! Constructing Jump Street (1080p, 4:03): A look at the new Jump Street headquarters featured in the film, the college campus, and some of the little easter eggs that appear in the film.
• NEW! Ssshhhh: The Deleted Scene Library (1080p, 6:50): Bell, Tatum, and Hill riff in the college library.
• Jump Street Spring Break (1080p, 5:41): Cast and crew talk up the spring break setting and sequences.
• Inside Whyphy (1080p, 4:49): A closer look at the fictional drug featured in the film.
• Johnny Pemberton's Nonsensical Tour (1080p, 4:35): The actor gives a "tour" of the 22 Jump Street set.
• NEW! Theatrical Trailers (1080p): Included are Theatrical Trailer 1 (2:09), Theatrical Trailer 2 (2:33), Red Band Trailer (2:15), International Trailer A (1:34), and International Trailer B (2:31).

Blu-ray:

• Audio Commentary
• Deleted & Extended Scenes
• The Perfect Couple of Directors
• Everything Is Better in College
• Janning and Chonah
• New Recruits
• The Perfect Line
• Don't Cut Yet
• Joke-A-Palooza
• Line-O-Ramas
• The Dramatic Interpretation of 22 Jump Street
• Zook & McQuaid Scout Reel
• Jenko Split
• Previews

22 Jump Street 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

22 Jump Street is every bit as fun as its predecessor, and its UHD is every bit as good as its predecessor's, too. Excellent 2160p/HDR video and a high energy, high fun Dolby Atmos soundtrack make this a must-own. A slew of new supplements on the UHD disc are icing on the cake. Very highly recommended, and fans can buy both films in one SteelBook if so inclined.