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Comedy threquel adds racial gags to its weak arsenal.
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Super Troopers 3
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What's the Story?
It's been nearly a decade since their last film, but the now-middle-aged patrolmen at the center of SUPER TROOPERS 3 are still up to their usual antics—even as they've grown so old that their former captain (Brian Cox) has retired and been replaced with a sensitive, well-meaning new leader (Nat Faxon). They're also training a Gen Z rookie (Andrew Dismukes) who only knows how to watch TikTok. But when Thorny's (Jay Chandrasekhar) sister, Sarita (Hannah Simone), comes to town and falls in love with the pigheaded Farva (Kevin Heffernan), the pair quickly get engaged, and Thorny vows to stop their whirlwind wedding at any cost. At the same time, the squad is tasked with keeping the community safe from a new kind of Canadian street drug that's hitting the market, possibly at the hands of a couple former weed dealers (Chace Crawford and Jon Rudnitsky) who just so happen to own Farva and Sarita's wedding venue.
Is It Any Good?
While the previous sequel was the product of a scrappy crowdfunding campaign, it's hard to tell the true creative inspiration behind this latest installment in the series—other than pure inertia. Super Troopers 3 (aka Super Troopers 3: Farva's Wedding) is proof positive that you can't keep going back to the same well, given that it features the same dated fart-joke humor as the first two, long after those laughs was fresh. Even more depressingly, its attempts to update the franchise by finding new angles fall flat on their face; every joke about Gen Z watching TikToks or the sensitive Millennial captain having his emotional intelligence turned against him by his raucous troopers, feels desperate and weak. To say nothing of the movie's racial humor, which feels like a cavalcade of easy jokes about Indians delivered by Indians who seemingly want to be the ones giving voice to their own stereotypes.
The Broken Lizard troupe (which includes co-star/director Chandrasekhar, Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske) struggles to find something novel or interesting in their characters' continued insistence on behaving like bratty teenagers. But after a certain point, it stops being funny when men in their 60s are getting covered in maple syrup or stabbed with EpiPens and just becomes sad. This feels more like another trip around the precinct for die-hard fans than anything resembling a coherent cop comedy.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about Super Troopers 3's approach to racial humor. How do you feel about the movie's jokes about Indian culture? Is it OK if the jokes are told by Indians or if Indian characters state approval of those jokes?
How do you feel about the film's approach to sex? Characters position themselves in was that can be seen both as empowering and as intended to provoke discomfort. Do these feel like healthy attitudes toward relationships and intimacy?
Is it still charming that these characters behave the same crass way they did decades years ago, especially in an age when police misconduct is more widely known and discussed? Do the jokes still feel fresh—or like acceptable behavior?
Movie Details
- In theaters : August 7, 2026
- Cast : Jay Chandrasekhar , Kevin Heffernan , Paul Soter , Steve Lemme
- Director : Jay Chandrasekhar
- Studio : Searchlight Pictures
- Genre : Comedy
- Run time : 104 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- MPAA explanation : sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug content
- Last updated : August 5, 2026
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