Parents Guide for
21 Jump Street (2012) More at IMDbPro »

Frequent use of crude and descriptive sexual language and strong crude sexual references and innuendo throughout.

In a bedroom we briefly (about two seconds) see two nude teen girls and a nude boy kneeling together (the male is in the middle) chest-to-back in a line on a bed.

We see a severed penis on the ground for about 5 seconds; a man tries to pick it up with his mouth (please see Violence & Gore section).

We briefly see a teen boy fully nude from behind as he runs out of a house.

In the back of a limo, an inebriated teenage girl attempts to unzip the zipper of an undercover police officer; he pushes her hand away and tells her she's "really hot and really slutty."

A teen girl sends a photo image of a teen boy wearing a green costume with a 5-foot-long green penis to a man who laughs.

While under the influence of a drug, an undercover police officer runs track and plays with the relay baton, holding it as if it is his penis; a teacher tries to take it away from him by grabbing it.

Throughout the film, adult males and teen boys talk about oral sex; in one such scene, a teen boy tells an undercover police officer that a teen girl and he "blow" each other occasionally, but it is just casual sex.

A middle-aged woman asks her adult son who wrote "I love d*ck" on his baby picture and drew an ejaculating penis in his mouth; the drawing is seen briefly and a man compares it to "an airplane throwing up."

A man says he wants to go home, take drugs, and masturbate.

A man refers to another man as a "vagina."

Using crude language, a police officer says he will perform oral sex on another man if he has to, but prefers not to.

Two police officers simulate oral and anal sex on a man after arresting him.

An undercover police officer tells his partner to act like he is giving him oral sex in a car to avoid being seen by gangsters.

A man tells another man that the tattoo on his penis "looks tough."

A bloody shootout in a hotel room involves a motorcycle gang, two teenagers, a teacher, and two police officers: everyone has a handgun, rifle, or automatic weapon and the room fills with loud gunfire when a drug deal goes bad, a bullet goes through one man's neck and into a wall and we see a lot of blood splattering, another man is shot twice in the chest and see blood streaming from the wounds as the two men fall on the floor next to one another and die; four other men are killed and we see some blood, a man threatens to shoot and kill an unconscious teen girl, a police officer receives a severe shoulder wound with a lot of blood while another bullet is stopped by his bulletproof vest, and a teen boy gets a bloody nose and lip from being hit in the face with a gun.

Two police officers arrest a man and one shoots him in the groin (we see some blood splatter as the man falls to his knees); the man screams loudly, saying that his penis needs to be sewn back on (we see the penis on the ground for about 5 seconds and the man tries to pick it up with his mouth).

Two chase scenes involve a middle-aged motorcycle gang, limousines, a large car, and a small car containing two undercover police officers that have commandeered cars from civilians (once by punching an elderly man unconscious); the men all have handguns and shoot continually at one another while two limos run off the road, one catches fire and explodes when a police officer throws a Molotov cocktail into it (we see a dead, completely charred corpse on the pavement), motorcycles fall over and slide under trucks, fuel tankers are shot, a tanker drive drives over the legs of a downed biker (we see a little blood), a biker shoots a bottle of whiskey out of a girl's hand as she stands up in the sunroof of a car, and as a final downed biker and his cycle slide under a chicken truck, the truck explodes into flames (feathers fly everywhere).

Fistfights break out at a high school party resulting in broken vases, and a knife is found in the shoulder of one man; he apparently did not feel being stabbed, a teen boy pulls it out and a teen girl pours vodka over the wound (we see some blood on the knife as it is removed and a bloodied nose and lip on another teen boy).

A man posing as a teen punches a teen boy hard in the face knocking him down.

Two men run onto a high school stage during a play and get into a fight; one swings from a harness and cable and the other jumps onto him repeatedly, breaks the cable apparatus and disrupts the play.

A man pushes a middle-aged woman into a pile of shoeboxes on the floor of a department store to make her stop talking (she is unhurt).

A man threatens to shoot and kill an unconscious teen girl (using graphic language) and a police officer says it looks like she is dead already; the man says she is only asleep.

A man punches another man in the groin.

123 F-words (2 or 3 of them are written) and its derivatives, 3 obscene hand gestures, 20 sexual references, 72 scatological terms, 57 anatomical terms.

A teen boy is shown in a home video after having taken a drug and he becomes manic and hyperactive before becoming violent, throwing things around his room; we learn that he died from an overdose and catch a quick glimpse of a photo of his dead body.

Middle-aged bikers smoke marijuana in a park and a bag of cocaine is found inside one of their motorcycles.

A teen boy sells drugs to two undercover police officers and insists that they take the drugs in front of him to prove they won't tell on him.

We see about 50 teens drinking hard liquor and beer from bottles and kegs and several teens smoking marijuana cigarettes (very briefly) and taking a drug called "H.F.S." as they giggle and begin running around fast.

During the end credits, we see a brief close-up shot of a line of cocaine being snorted through a straw.

The parents of an undercover police officer are shown smoking a marijuana cigarette as they drive in their car.