"Ladies, nobody cared about the Jump Street reboot, but you got lucky - so now, this department has invested a lot of money to make sure Jump Street keeps going", grins Nick Offerman's moustachioed police chief in the first quarter of an hour of 22 Jump Street.
Rarely does a film so blatantly poke fun at itself, but the latest comedy from Chris Miller and Phil Lord, self-referential humour is the aim of the game. And 22 Jump Street couldn't have done it better.