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Super Troopers
- Review Date: May 8, 2003
- R
- Genre: Comedy
- 2002
Common Sense Media says
Sex and drug jokes abound in lowbrow comedy.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that not only does this movie show authority figures using drugs and alcohol, but they condone underage drinking and drug use. Police officers do beer bong hits in the final scene with the teens they are supposed to be arresting. Sexual content includes the depiction of masturbation, bestiality, and implied group sex, along with some naked breasts and a brief moment of full frontal male nudity. Bad language is pretty frequent.
What's the story?
SUPER TROOPERS feels like the kind of movie five college buddies who didn't want to go to law school would dream up after a weeklong marathon of smoking dope and watching John Landis movies. In fact, that's pretty much how it came about. Five recent Colgate graduates who created a comedy group called Broken Lizard wrote and star in it and one of them directed it. The result is a sort of Animal House crossed with Cheech and Chong with a touch of the '70s Erik Estrada television show CHiPs. It is a slob comedy story of the rivalry between a group of Vermont highway patrolmen and the local police. It escalates from taunts and practical jokes to a struggle over turf and then to a struggle for survival. The members of Broken Lizard play the troopers, whose idea of "cheeky" hijinks includes making bets about how many times one of them can use the word "meow" while giving a motorist a speeding ticket or donning a hippie wig and racing the other troupers to the Canadian border. In classic college fashion, drugs, alcohol, humiliation, and sex provide most of the subjects for humor.
Is it any good?
This is in the middle range for bad taste comedies, in both the bad taste and comedy categories. There are a lot of gross jokes that are cheerfully politically incorrect but not as offensive as some of what is out there. They are not as stupid as some of what we've seen in recent movies, but they are not terrifically funny either. It falls somewhere between American Pie and Tom Green.
No one in Broken Lizard has what anyone might deem star quality -- in those uniforms, they look more like they are auditioning for a local franchise for the Village People than like anyone who might know how to hold a radar gun on a speeding 18-wheeler. But director Jay Chandrasekhar and one or two of the others clearly have fun on screen and it occasionally reaches the audience.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the humor here. Is it funny to see authority figures act like buffoons or is it worrisome? Or both?
What other movies can you think of that make fun of authority figures?
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Love this movie! =D
Amazing Movie! i lovethe broken lizard guys and its one of there classics! my only critique would be that there is a nude butt, otherwise the movie is appropriate.
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Not great, not bad
I enjoyed parts of this movie. I did think though that much of it was unnecissary. It was more violent than I thought it would be. It was also very sexual and vulgar. Bottom Line: There's no need to leave your house this instant and buy it, or even rent it, but if you do see it, just remeber: there are better movie selections. Thanks for reading! - Movie Man
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Laughing at the Vulgarity.
I personally love this movie to death! I saw it when I was sixteen, and it was one of the funniest movies I'd ever seen at that point. It's really important to see the ridiculousness of it. Meow, there are certain things you can't take seriously, and it should be common sense that the cops don't act like this. As long as you teach your children the value of common sense, it shouldn't be a problem.
Separate reality from fantasy. It takes an interesting sense of humor, but if you're Mormon, I don't really recommend it.
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Super Troopers
Very funny movie. Loved it from beginning to end. Most people I guess wouldn't agree or get a laugh from the humor, but everybodys different.
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| Studio: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Director: | Jay Chandrasekhar |
| Cast: | Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 100 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | February 15, 2002 |
| DVD release date: | August 6, 2002 |
| MPAA rating: | R |
| MPAA explanation: | language, sexual content and drug use |
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