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The comedy sequel 22 Jump Street -- starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill as undercover cops on a college campus -- held off a hard-charging How to Train Your Dragon 2 over the weekend to claim the top slot at the box office.
That's not what was strange. There were a series of gags in the extremely meta comedy that were a little too "on the nose." It was almost as if jokes about Tracy Morgan and a particular, homophobic slur were included to capitalize on recent news stories. I mean, some of these were just TOO coincidental?
Did the movie handle these jokes the right way? We discuss in the Monday Movie Memo.

We also put together a 24-hour movie marathon consisting ONLY of sequels to movies based on TV shows. Who knew there were so many?
Also, we sat down with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill:
And followed up with Phil Lord and Chris Miller.