Prime Video Is About to Drop Channing Tatum’s Two Funniest Comedies

Prime Video is kicking off 2026 by handing you an easy New Year double feature: both 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street hit the service on January 1. If you somehow missed these in theaters, or just want to watch Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill commit to bit after bit like their rent depends on it, this is your moment.

The essentials

• Arrival date: January 1, 2026 on Prime Video
• The movies: 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014)
• Box office: 21 Jump Street made $201.5 million worldwide; 22 Jump Street upped it to $331.3 million
• Rotten Tomatoes: 21 Jump Street sits at 85% with critics and 83% with audiences; 22 Jump Street holds 84% with critics and 77% with audiences
• Directors: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the duo also known for their Spider-Verse work
• Source material: Based on the 1987–1991 TV series from Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell
• Original series cast ties: Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson, and Pete DeLuise cameo in the first film; Richard Grieco and Dustin Nguyen pop up in the sequel

What you are getting

Both films follow two cops who are also best friends: Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill). Their boss, Captain Dickson (Ice Cube, in full bark mode), keeps sending them undercover to clean up drug rings at schools. In the first movie, they pretend to be high school students to shut down a synthetic called HFS. In the second, they move to college to stop a new campus favorite called WHY-PHY.

Why these still hit

These are the rare studio comedies that were funny out of the gate and then somehow got sharper in the sequel. Lord and Miller lean into the meta-jokes without turning the whole thing into a wink-wink sketch, and Tatum/Hill have that effortless 'opposites who are actually the same' chemistry that makes the undercover chaos work. The TV DNA is a nice touch, too: the films are spun out of the late-80s/early-90s 21 Jump Street series, and the cameos from original stars are placed exactly where fans will clock them.

Bottom line: if you want two crowd-pleasers that actually earned those crowd-pleasing numbers, queue them up on day one and call it a clean start to the year.