“21 Jump Street” could have easily been just another bad remake, but Jonah Hill’s and Channing Tatum’s performance had me laughing out loud hysterically.

Once again this is another movie that proves that you don’t need a $250 million budget to bring in a huge audience and top the box office. Although it hasn’t cleared its original budget of $42 million yet, it did a lot better than John Carter. Shame shame. I saw John Carter and enjoyed it, but nonstop action and spotless graphics can’t always compare to the funny Jonah Hill.

After a failed attempt to read someone their Miranda rights, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are put on a special undercover unit and sent to relive their teen years with the mission to find out who’s selling a new hallucinogen that’s having kids drop dead after four ridiculous stages. The two unlikely paired cops find themselves switching roles in school, discovering new trends and making new friends while living under Schmidt’s mom’s place as brothers.

I never watched the original TV show that starred Johny Depp back in the 80s, but that’s neither here nor there. Jonah Hill and Project X writer Michael Bacall bring the laughs from beginning to end creating a fresh new take on the buddy cop genre.

There isn’t any aspect of the movie that takes itself seriously. Throughout, Hill and Tatum are humping each other, shooting off their guns at inappropriate places and grabbing weed for a high school party. It even makes fun of its genre with a scene where the Schmidt and Jenko hold their breath waiting for cars to blow up behind them.

The directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller did a pretty good job. This isn’t a movie that you take phone calls, refill drinks or take bathroom breaks. The funny keeps coming and coming and coming all over. It’s so funny you’re going to need to wear a trash bag to keep the funny from ruining your clothes.

I will say one thing- this is Tatum’s best movie yet. Coming from a dude’s prospective, I can’t get in to any of his romantic comedies, and every attempt he’s made at an action movie it didn’t settle well with my stomach. In “21 Jump Street,” he proved he can be genuinely funny and take a joke just as much as he can deliver one.

I’m gonna go ahead and say that “21 Jump Street” is gonna be considered the funniest movie of the year. If you haven’t already seen it, I definietly recommend you go see it. Right now.