![]() ![]() O’Hagen ( Brian Cox), head up to the disputed area to keep the peace, clash with the Mounties stationed there ( Will Sasso, Tyler Labine, and Hayes MacArthur), and engage in more wacky pranks.Īnd prank they do. ![]() ![]() The troops, along with their commander Capt. Inexplicably set a mere few months after the first Super Troopers, the sequel sees disgraced Vermont state troopers Thorny (director Jay Chandrasekhar), Foster ( Paul Soter), Mac ( Steve Lemme), Farva ( Kevin Heffernan) and Rabbit ( Erik Stolhanske) brought back into the fold by Governor Jessman ( Lynda Carter) to oversee the transfer of a portion of Canadian land that turns out to actually be US territory. All this means, unfortunately, is that Super Troopers 2 amounts to nothing more than a limp reunion tour where they seem to feel obligated to play the hits. Seventeen years and a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign later, Broken Lizard is back with a $4 million sequel to Super Troopers, bringing along – for better or worse – the same comic outrageousness and oddball absurdity that defined the first. While the jokes about babes and weed have aged about as well as you’d expect, there’s something admirable about the devil-may-care approach the fledgling members of Broken Lizard took with their first big hit, turning a $1.2 million movie financed by a retired investment banker into a dorm room staple. Broken Lizard’s 2001 cult cop comedy came out at the perfect time and found the perfect audience: it was the early aughts, and gross-out humor was at its peak through shock-value sensations like Jackass and Freddy Got Fingered. The jokes in the first Super Troopers are almost old enough to vote. ![]()
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