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Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
With "Animal House" as an obvious influence, the Broken Lizard guys find a bounty of clever, good-natured gags in their portrayals of the Smokies as uniformed fraternity brothers. Think of the troopers as Delta House and the local small-town cops as the arch-rival Omegas. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
"Super Troopers" 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. Imagine a group of Vermont state troopers treating their job like an opportunity to stage real-life "Candid Camera" situations. Now imagine that all of the troopers have ambitions to be stand-up comics. ...
Chris Hewitt,
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The movie has a loose, free-wheeling sensibility. The Broken Lizards know how to structure jokes, and they like to give them space to breathe, so they often follow up a gag with two or three amusing reactions to it. "Our shenanigans are cheeky and fun," says one of the characters. If you added "and somewhat familiar," you'd have a pretty good description of "Super Troopers." ...
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune
If a comedy's not going to deliver wall-to-wall laughs, it might as well be likable. So it is that "Super Troopers," a wild 'n' wacky romp about prank-happy Vermont state troopers getting the better of sneering local-cop rivals, manages to leave the impression that it was funny even though most of its jokes don't score. ...
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Super Troopers
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(2002)
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Overview:
Five over-enthusiastic but under-stimulated Vermont State Troopers raise hell on the highway, keeping motorists anxiously looking in their rear-view mirrors. Between an ongoing feud with the local cops over whose you-know-what is bigger, and the state government wanting to shut them down, the "Super Troopers" find themselves precariously and hilariously heading toward calamity as they try to avoid extinction.
Starring:
Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brian Cox, Daniel von Bargen, Marisa Coughlan and Lynda Carter
Directed by:
Jay Chandrasekhar
Written by:
Broken Lizard (Chandrasekhar, Heffernan, Lemme, Soter and Stolhanske)
Cinematographer:
Joaquin Baca-Asay
Composer:
.38 Special
Studio:
Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date:
Feb. 15, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(R) - for language, sexual content and drug use
Running Time:
103 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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