Super Troopers (2001)

Wonderful Movie

Memorable, crazy movie

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I remember liking this movie a lot the first few times I saw it, maybe it's just because I was younger and more easily entertained. Don't get me wrong, when this movie has a good scene, they're done very well. A couple examples are the very first scene, and my personal favorite, the "Liter of Cola" scene. These scenes are hilarious, with good writing and performances. However, I feel like the movie relies too much on the viewer thinking it's automatically funny. Like, there are some scenes I didn't laugh at, but the characters paused as if I was supposed to. Scenes like these kind of make the movie feel like a sit-com with the laugh track off. Also, while the story is pretty weak, they manage to do they best with what they have, except for the scene where the handcuff Farva to the toilet. How the hell did he get free of that situation? I'm sure it's supposed to be funny, but none of the characters ask him afterwards, so it feels almost like a missed joke to me. I'm glad I saw it again, but I probably won't see it another time after this.

I guess this is compared with National Lampoon but it must be crap like Disco Beaver From Outer Space people are comparing it to because it has the same amount of laughs, which is next to none. The beginning scene had promise and I did laugh at the "moustache ride" joke with the German couple, but the rest...it is boring. A joke where two cops just repeat each other? A pig in a RV joke? Ramrod? Bear in the woods sex? The script is boring and makes no sense. The acting is horrible too and everyone in this just seems to be getting jobs for Broken Lizard projects and nothing else. Are these just privileged white frat boys getting funding for their vanity projects or what? Dull. I am not sure who would like this.

Super Troopers is about four state troopers that do shenanigans and have a rivalry with the police. That's the whole plot.The intro and ending were great, they really tied up the story pretty well. But I'm afraid the rest of the movie wasn't that good.The film wasn't that funny, the jokes were not amusing at all.No wonder this is considered a stoner flick, you'd have to be pretty stone to enjoy it. And honestly, I don't know why it's considered one at all, they smoke weed once in the entire movie.The movie had no character development at all, although it had good dialogue.Farva reminded me of Gomer Pyle from FMJ and the moustaches were a nice touch to the troopers.Overall, the movie was OK.

Comedy is opinionated, that is a fact. But when making a comedy, one must properly deliver the humor through snarky dialogue and comedic actions. This film those have many instances of funny, stupid action and actions. The best jokes come from the film working with its environment, and not the dialogue. This includes the scene when pulling over the pot heads, which was a pretty humorous scene. The problem comes from the dialogue. Most if not all of the lines in this film lack any essence of true comedy. It falls into the category of failed attempts, in both the story and the delivering of lines. I won't blame the actors (except for Kevin Heffernan) for the terrible humor or line deliverers. Instead I blame the terrible script. This is all opinionated, but it holds some truth after the analyzation, even for a small time comedy. All in all this film failed to deliver laughs, and would be better suited for an immature audience due to the crass and immature humor. The target viewing group for a movie like this would be unsupervised Middle Schoolers, but I digress. In any case, humor is unique to each person, some like moronic jokes more then others. The movie is a downer.