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Super Troopers
Fox Searchlight Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, sexual content and drug use
Starring
Jay Chandrasekhar,
Kevin Heffernan,
Steve Lemme,
Paul Soter,
Erik Stolhanske,
Brian Cox,
Daniel von Bargen,
and
Lynda Carter
Thorny, Rabbit, Mac, and Foster are Vermont State Troopers stationed in the boonies on the Canadian border. When they find out that the state has targeted their low-volume station for a potential budget cut, the guys attempt to straighten up their act but find it's not so easy to change their brazen ways. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jay Chandrasekhar
Kevin Heffernan
Steve Lemme
Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jay Chandrasekhar
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 6, 2002
Video: August 6, 2002
Theatrical: February 15, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Laugh-out-loud comedies are so rare that you shouldn't casually pass up Super Troopers, which is essentially a smarter and much funnier version of the old "Police Academy" flicks.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
There's a thin line between smart-stupid and just plain stupid, and Super Troopers walks it with ease.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ellen A. Kim
The cast, collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist, shows deft comic timing, particularly Chandrasekhar, who wrings laughs just by his reaction to the locals' racist remarks.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Mostly, Super Troopers is plain goofy.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
With no greater ambition than reworking the Police Academy movies, Broken Lizard comes up with a winning formula: one part laughs to two parts goodwill.

63
Boston Globe
Nick A. Zaino III
Broken Lizard has a way to go to match the absurdity and conceptual genius of Monty Python or Kids in the Hall, but Super Troopers has promising moments of oddity.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Plays like it was directed as a do-it-yourself project, following instructions that omitted a few steps, and yet the movie has an undeniable charm.

60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Though there's a crime to be solved, a romance to go awry, and lots of trooper-police politics to elaborate on, the strangely drawn out pacing somehow feels fresh rather than oppressive.

60
Variety
David Rooney
A fairly sustained barrage of broad undergraduate humor and gross-out gags that should tickle young auds looking for unsophisticated laughs.

60
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Luckily, the genuinely funny jokes far outnumber the duds in the film itself, which is helped by the generally energetic performances by Broken Lizard and their co-stars.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Scattershot, hit-and-often-miss comedy.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The exceedingly silly Super Troopers is an earnest, mostly funny spoof.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Puerile, offensive, degrading, dumb, pointless, insipid and may just well be a harbinger for the end of Western civilization as we know it.
But I laughed. Sorry.
50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Broken Lizard does it with a shit-faced integrity that's worth a salute.

50
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The best thing about the movie is its personable, amusing cast, all members of the five-man comedy troupe Broken Lizard. There's a chemistry among them, which obviously comes from having been together as comedians at Colgate University.

50
TV Guide
Steve Simels
Fans of cheesy '70s TV shows will also be pleased by Wonder Woman Lynda Carter's brief cameo appearance as the governor of Vermont.

50
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Manages to leave the impression that it was funny even though most of its jokes don't score.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jason Anderson
When Farva sees O'Hagan in civilian wear -- a denim jacket and blue jeans -- he asks his boss, "Where'd you get the Canadian tuxedo?" Such moments may not be as exciting as the sight of Homer Simpson at the CN Tower, but they'll do.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Begins so well that it's painful to watch it degenerate into tried-and-true frat-boy humor.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
It's technically a well-made film: Chandrasekhar, who directed, gives it the look of a studio feature on a sizably smaller budget. It's just the script that betrays its cast.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The thing about stoner comedy is that, well, it helps to be stoned.

20
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
There's nothing super about Super Troopers except for those deep into the low end of the frat-house mentality that equates smart-alecky with hilarity.

10
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Bad and tasteless. You laugh neither with it nor at it but rather sit counting the minutes while the movie laughs, for no good reason, at itself.


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