Ice Cube gets his angry boss role down to the note, mastering the angry stare and yelling almost every line of dialogue he gets. On top of this, the actors know how to make the jokes work with all the actors having the same charm as last time. At times some of the jokes don't work quite as well, but there's enough hilarious moments packed in to make sure the laughs keep coming and mocks every possible detail of the action sequel. They'll make a joke out of everything from the fact that things getting destroyed in car chases costs a lot in the budget to even John Woo's doves being randomly thrown in. It works because of the clever writing which parodies every detail of an action sequel, keeping the jokes fresh and original. Usually staying fixed on joking that it's a sequel would get repetitive after a while, but the film just keeps handling it in different ways to keep the laughs coming.
This is one of the many self aware jokes that the film keeps throwing at us. Because increasing the budget is certain to increase the profit.
Only this time they'll throw more money at it to better ensure success. The logic being since it worked last time, it'll work again. Hill and Tatum are constantly reminded to do everything the exact same as last time at every chance they get to say it. Even the outline of the plot mocks the regular concept of every sequel. The difference being that it's honest about it, with the entire film mocking the regular clichés. Well, that's exactly what 22 Jump Street also does, with as much as possible remaining just the same. Usually all this leads to is everything being the same but with more explosions and a bigger pay-check to get the same people back. Then just like any action, the producers decided to throw more money at the same people hoping for the same result. But to everyone's surprise 21 Jump Street was a hit, earning 200 million and giving the careers of both Hill and Tatum a big boost to two already big names. Usually remakes aren't very good, with many bombing and being outshone by the original version.
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