Super Troopers
Review by By Clint Morris
 Screaming
down the highway with siren ablaze and lights a flickering, Super
Troopers has issued an APB for your funny bone and, unless
you’re a tad erratic, you won’t be resisting arrest.
Slightly more restrained than Tom Green’s
style of jesting, but significantly more enthused, Jay Chandrasekhar’s Super
Troopers is part Smokey and the Bandit, a
little Animal House; and a turn of rib-tickling.
Needless to say, it will have every beer
guzzling ocker heading to their local multiplex. And this time, they’ll
have chosen quite a nugget, although first impressions of a guy humping
a bear may mislead...
Worryingly plausible, the film – created by
the five member comedy group Broken Lizard – is a batty comedy about
the undomesticated exploits of a small town highway patrol crew.
Racially hazy Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar),
manic Mac (Steve Lemme), rookie Rabbit (Eric Stolhanske) and
sweet-natured Foster (Paul Soter) get their kicks on the job; but it’s
not going to last.
Budget Cuts mean the highway patrol will be
phased out and the local police force would take a more prominent role
in the area.
The trooper’s boss, apathetic Capt. O'Hagan
(Brian Cox) sees one last hope for keeping the boys together: If they
can tie a marijuana smuggling ring to a murder investigation on which
the local cops are making no progress, they may be able to convince the
governor (Lynda Carter) to save their post. Fortunately Foster is
sleeping with a member of the police force; and she’s only too happy to
take her immoral colleagues down.
Super Troopers is Police
Academy for the sceptics. It’s hard to find a flaw in the
film – because it really succeeds in giving the audience what it
promises: a strident, dumb, but inspired comedy. We don’t get too many
of them. Broken Lizard’s screenplay is consistently funny, and
refreshingly crude – unlike countless other gross-out comedies we've
seen in recent times.
If you’re not walking out of the theatre
still laughing at at least some of the jokes in this movie; you’ll be
rushing home to escape the loopy highway patrolman that may lurk nearby.
3 out of 5
Super Troopers
Australian release: Commences Thursday March 14th
Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Erik
Stolhankse, Brian Cox, Marisa Coughlan, Lynda Carter.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
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