Super Troopers

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If there's ever a movie that people say isn't as bad as it looks or what critics say, don't agree with them. That's what I did with Super Troopers. It's a misguided non tour-de-farce that has no idea where it's going. In fact, to make the obligatory pun, this movie could be called Super Poopers, since that's what this movie basically is and what most of the `jokes' consist of. The slim-to-none plot is about highway patrolmen who like to mess with the people they pull over. However, the `evil' state police men are going to take over their highway (gasp!) so they must save it. The bad guys were all too clear-cut, not leaving any mystery or suspense for us to follow. Of course, my DVD player did go on the fritz twice, but I don't think I missed anything. In fact, I'm glad it did. There's so many things wrong, what should I begin with? First, I'll go with the non-jokes. In the beginning I may have chuckled around twice, but soon fell through a giant hole. There are constant drug and sex jokes that aren't funny. The slapstick wasn't even funny; I usually fall for that. It all seemed a bit too rushed and tried to throw in a meaningless plot instead of making this an `SNL-movie'. Personally, I think an idea like this would work better in variety show cases. The `one-joke' premise got wasted early on. Plus, the movie seemed to run out of steam in the end. I also thought that all of the swearing was added in to try to attract a larger audience; it certainly wasn't necessary and definitely seemed not to fit in. Too many characters were thrown in, just like all of the unoriginal movies like this. How are we supposed to keep them straight if we don't know anything about them? I didn't buy any of the chemistry between the troopers and the police; in fact, it was laughingly bad. Hey, just like the rest of the movie! My rating: 2/10 Rated R for language, sexual content and drug use.

This movie was hysterical! The way they joked around with each other was so true to life! It wasn't unrealistic at all! Anybody who sees this will have to agree that there is at least one character in the film that reminds them of one of their buddies! I know it sure reminded me of the guys that hang around me! We just saw the movie this evening on IFC in widescreen, without commercials, and unedited. I am very happy I waited to see it this way instead of a TNT, TBS, USA, or FOX broadcast version. I am definitely getting this movie on DVD as soon as possible! The outtakes and behind the scenes features are probably fantastic!

This was a welcome change of pace, a film that was a bit independent and a bit mainstream, yet all in all, was still hilarious. With an unknown and unproven cast, this film captured a certain sense of zeal within a viewer, certainly making the viewer wish highway patrolmen were this funny and irregular all the time. Funny, even though the comedy was sometimes low brow, this film certainly earned its accolades at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is mind-boggling that viewers gave this film an average rating of better than 6 points out of 10. I went in expecting some zany fun along the lines of Airplane or National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Instead the movie offered a few lame sight gags and a cast of characters that you just didn't grow to care about. Were I still a 16-year-old male (instead of a 45-year-old male) I might not have viewed this film as such a big waste of time. But my tastes have changed since I was sixteen.

I'll admit, word of mouth got me to watch this one. And usually that's good, but this time it didn't work. I only laughed once and smiled throughout. Certainly isn't that funny. The last good funny movie I watched was Rat. Golfballs is better than this movie. I didn't fully understand why it's got an R rating either. So I would suppose that 1. you have to be in the mood to watch below the belt humor, or 2. watch so few comedy's that this is actually good. I don't know if it would be better to watch the second time round, so I'll leave that as a question. 3/10 Quality: 0/10 Entertainment: 5/10 Replayable: ?/10

The ensemble cast in this film takes the just above average drug humor and turns it into a laugh festival. I rate this movie as funny as Animal House. The Local Highway Troopers are hapless, hopeless, and not anyone you want on YOUR highway, but man are they funny! You truly find yourself loving this crew as they struggle to keep their station open in the face of budget cuts. The characters are so widely diverse yet so believable from the ethnically questionable leader of the crew Arkot Ramathorne (Thorny) whose girlfriend runs a head shop to the adorable and insane Mack whose wild stunts steal the show on a regular basis.

Super Troopers LOOKS stupid but came through in the clutch with solid laughs from this comedy team. I'm not going to use some lame rating system like the other guy used but I will say this: IT IS BETTER THAN THOSE MOVIES HE MENTIONED. Super Troopers combines solid physical comedy with surprisingly solid comedy writing. Its by no means a classic, but it is very worth sitting around with some friends, smacking a few beers and checking out this flick. I was surprised by the hilarity of this movie, hopefully you will too.

One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I haven't seen a funnier first 10 minutes of a movie since SOUTH PARK -- the gags are puerile and stupid, yes, but they are also refreshingly original. No fair comparing this to POLICE ACADEMY -- the characters in that dreadful series of movies were all alien morons and hardly recognizable as human beings. These characters are smart and fully fleshed out -- these are the kind of guys who remind you of your friends. This movie should be an inspiration to both aspiring film-makers and to the big studios -- you don't need a $20 million actor and twenty-five different writers and a ridiculously contrived concept to make a successful comedy. If I were running a big studio, I'd sign Broken Lizard up to do 10 more movies at the $5-$10 million range, let them hit their stride and develop a following, and cash in on the DVD sales. And let's face it -- none of these guys are leading men, none of them would ever have had a career in Hollywood on their own, but together, they're funnier than those lames on SNL.

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