This document provides a compare and contrast analysis of the films Kickass and 22 Jump Street. Both films teach similar life lessons through their comedic action plots, including believing in justice, the importance of friendship, not judging people superficially, and that crime does not pay. The films show heroes and villains learning these lessons in different ways through their efforts to fight crime and drug dealers. Overall, the document argues that while comedic in nature, both films effectively convey meaningful moral messages alongside laughter and excitement.

1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: TANG YING JIEN
STUDENT ID NO: 0322357
FILMS SELECTED: KICKASS, 22 JUMPSTREET
WORD COUNT: 1117
ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSIONDATE:28TH
SEPTEMBER2015

2. If you justhad a bad day, go and watch Kickass or 22 Jump Street and it will
brighten up the rest of your day. This particular genre of movies havethe gist of
fun filling action that makes your funny senses tingling and adrenaline pumping
fromthe beginning till the end of the movie. The two fast-moving action comedy
movies have some similarity that makes you laugh and cry at the same time too. It
is true that most action comedy movies only depicts silly people doing silly stuffs
and there is nothing really meaningful in the movie like KungFu Hustle made by
Stephen Chow. But both directors, Matthew Vaughn and Phil Lord had made a
masterpiece when they implemented moralvalues and lifelong lesson in one
funny movie. Justby looking at both movies, both of them havethree similar life
lessons which is, believes in justice, the needs of having a friend to lean on, do not
judgepeople by its cover and crime does not pay.
Straight to the point, in the movie, Kickass and 22 Jump Street, Schmidt, Jenko,
Kickass and Hit Girl have reflected that they believes in justicebut the two duo
protagonists had a different way of perceiving justice. In 22 Jump Street, Schmidt
and Jenko work together to fight crime. They work under the police departments
as undercover cops that solve crime cases. Their job is to dwell with drug dealers
and criminals. In this movie, they try to take down a syndicate that sells WHYPHY
drugs to college students that killed a student that bought the drug. For the
Kickass movie, Kickass and Hit Girl fight crimes undercover. Thetwo of them
believes that the governmentdoes not really help out much in the current
society. So they decided to stand up and fight for justice. They helps to saves the
defenseless citizens frombullies and gangsters, buttheir main motive is to take

3. down a world-renowned drug dealer, D’Amico. Both of the movies depicts great
justice’s values that should be implied in our lives.
Besides believing in justice, the action comedy movies tells that it is good to have
a friend to lean on. Jump Street movie have portrayed that Schmidt and Jenko
have always been together solving and fighting crimes even when they have
misunderstanding and fights between the two of them. Through the movie, Jenko
with a better physicalattributes, he had saved his good pal, Schmidtcountless
times. With that so, Schmidttried to take a bullet for Jenko which still ended up
Jenko being shot. That’s not all, 22 Jump Street had thought us that how a little
spaceand time can help heal a friendship in crisis. As being said by C.S. Lewis, a
professionalin psychology, “getting over a painful experience is much like
crossing monkey bars. You haveto let go at somepoint in order to go forward.”
When solving a case, Jenko and Schmidthad trouble blending in with each other,
which ended up both of them leaving each other. When they venture out and find
their true self, they realized that they need each other to become the best team
and work till the end. While on the other movie, the two villain fighters, Kickass
and Hit Girl are always pairing up together to fight crimes. With a better fighting
skills, Hit Girl teachers Kickass how to really “kickass” in fighting crimes. We can’t
deny that Hit Girl is an expert in fighting, but when it comes to emotional
situation, shebreaks down. Kickass as her sole buddy, he helps Hit Girl to find
warmth when Hit Girl lost her father, Big Daddy during one of the fights. Besides
that, Kickass also saved Hit Girl with a bazooka when the drug lord, D’Amico
nearly killed Hit Girl. This two movies teaches us that sometimes friendships are
what matters most.

4. Moreover, both of the movies teaches us not to judgepeople by its cover. In the
22 Jump Street story, conflict happened between Schmidt and Jenko. The duo
walk their when own way when Jenko feels that Schmidt cannot blend into the
college’s life. Jenko feels that Schmidtis rather useless. But Schmidtis not useless,
he uses a different kind of method to blend in into college life. After that, Jenko
realize that Schmidthas his own way to solvecases, so they team up again and
combine both their talent and finish of the case. In the Kickass moviecase, Kickass
was justan ordinary boy who is bullied and called gay. He didn’t want to be an
ordinary boy that is always being bullied. He was then inspired by superheroes in
comic books and decided to be one himself and fight crime. On his firstattempt,
he was badly injured but had gavehim the capabilities to endure pain and
enhance durability. But at the end, he proves himself to Hit Girl that he is worthy
enough to be Kickass.
Last but not least, crime does not pay is one of the point in the 22 Jump Street
and Kickass movie. Mercedes is the main antagonistin 22 Jump Street. She is the
one who sells WHYPHYto college students. She is also the one who contribute to
the murder of the WHYPHYpurchaser. Butin the end, how she became like this is
also becausehis father, Ghostwho is the puppeteer to all incident. Smuggling
drugs and earning money from illegal trading is a serious crime. But whatgoes
around comes around. The daughter and father’s doing is wrong, and they face
their consequences, ending being caught by Schmidt and Jenko. In the other
hand, D’Amico is the biggest bad guy in Kickass movie. He is the drug lord who
deals with crime syndicates. As karma comes after everyoneeventually, he was

5. killed when Kickass shota rocketfrom a bazooka. This two movies tells us that we
should not do crime as crime does not pay.
In a nutshell, both movies had taught us moral values through laughter and tears.
Learning that we need to believe in justice, so that one day the world will be a
better place. We also need to make friends so we have a place to find comfort
when we are stress or emotional unstable. Besides that, we need to learn not to
judgepeople by its cover as every people have their own strength and weakness.
And at last, crime does not pay as doing evil deeds are always a bad thing to do
and you will suffer at the end. Overall, I feel that the movies are well done and
deserves a thumbs up!