Might as well ‘Jump’

He’s more of a pirate these days, but Johnny Depp began his career as a policeman. As undercover agent Tom Hanson on FOX’s popular series 21 Jump Street, the iconic actor put his baby face and bountiful charm to good use posing as a high school student, sniffing out on-campus drug deals and musing on the ill-effects of hate crimes, child abuse and teenage promiscuity. This Friday, 21 Jump Street returns as an action comedy when two half-wit young officers played by Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are sentenced to the police academy’s equivalent of detention when they are assigned to undercover duty at a local high school. But this mission turns dangerous when they discover a synthetic drug ring—and the ensuing psychedelic effects—firsthand. Dave Franco and Ellie Kemper co-star, and Depp is rumored to cameo. Rated PG-13.