"22 Jump Street": Channg Tatum and Jonah Hill go meta-gay |

Contents:

• JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'
• "22 JUMP STREET": CHANNG TATUM AND JONAH HILL GO META-GAY

JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'

Photograph: Peter Mounta/AP‘All my characters are gay’Depp reunted the well-documented story that he was almost fired om the set of the first Pirat of the Caribbean movie bee his outlandish performance as Jack Sparrow ially had Disney executiv worried. Is dnk, is gay?

“When they asked if was gay, I said: ‘Didn’t you know all my characters are gay? This thoroughly potls and unniably amg sequel ph the self-aware homo-bromance to new levels. Actually, one uld argue that that back-and-forth dynamic of mascule possibily f the entire movie: We’re gay!

"22 JUMP STREET": CHANNG TATUM AND JONAH HILL GO META-GAY

We’re gay-macho! You n say ‘gay, ’ that’s OK. Or maybe ‘homosexual.

” That scene – funny, surprisg and more than a ltle prepostero -- sums up the appeal, and the limatns, of this ultra-self-aware anchise, which has taken the latent homoeroticism of every buddy-p drama, pulled to the surface and allowed to bloom to a thoand flowers. In fact, there’s nothg new this paper-th llegiate farce – we get scen of at life, the football team, borg and pervy profsors, slam poetry and sprg break, all of distctly third-rate – except, perhaps, for the homoerotic subtext-turned-text.

There isn’t a smidgen of nsc or tentnal homophobia “22 Jump Street, ” which is certaly an improvement on the stream of angst-ridn gay-themed humor that ns through many Apatow-style edi. ) I was gog to say that there’s still a slight unrcurrent of the ia that homosexualy is herently funny this movie, but even that is not entirely fair. ) They’re gay or they’re cluels or ’s all a big, funny misunrstandg.