Super Troopers

The ensemble cast in this film takes the just above average drug humor and turns it into a laugh festival. I rate this movie as funny as Animal House.

The Local Highway Troopers are hapless, hopeless, and not anyone you want on YOUR highway, but man are they funny! You truly find yourself loving this crew as they struggle to keep their station open in the face of budget cuts.

The characters are so widely diverse yet so believable from the ethnically questionable leader of the crew Arkot Ramathorne (Thorny) whose girlfriend runs a head shop to the adorable and insane Mack whose wild stunts steal the show on a regular basis.

This was a welcome change of pace, a film that was a bit independent and a bit mainstream, yet all in all, was still hilarious. With an unknown and unproven cast, this film captured a certain sense of zeal within a viewer, certainly making the viewer wish highway patrolmen were this funny and irregular all the time. Funny, even though the comedy was sometimes low brow, this film certainly earned its accolades at the Sundance Film Festival.

I have to say something about some of the reviews I've read here. While most of the review, I think, are pretty much dead on, I need to say something to people who want to analyse this film like they do every other movie. What do you people expect? Do you honestly go into a movie like this thinking that you're going to get classic amazing humor that's innovative and ground-breaking? Please! Come on...of course critics and people that have sticks up places that I can't mention here are going to hate this, but I ask you people, why the heck did you go see it in the first place? Like this screen-writer person that was "dragged" to the theater by a friend. Please dude, get your self-righteous, over-inflated head out of your you-know-what and stop telling us that it was "the worst film you've ever seen". And by the way, what have you ever written if you're such a big "screen writer from LA"? You're probably just p***ed because people were calling your movies the worst they've ever seen. What are you expecting? Monty Python? It wasn't a good movie in the sense that American Beauty or The Sixth Sense were good movies, but did it fulfill it's advertised goal? It did. It's advertised as stupid guy humor....it delivered stupid guy humor. People can be so self-righteous and offended but these types shouldn't even bother to go see it. Get a grip, have a sense of humor and if you don't have either of these then DON'T GO SEE THESE KINDS OF MOVIES. By the way, I gave this movie a 7/10 because it was funny and delivered on what it promised.

I have seen this movie about 25 times and it is absolutely one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The comedy is fresh and deep at times but if you have any sort of a sense of humor...you'll love it. The characters are built well and the film flows evenly until the end. Farva is the funniest character and works well with the others.

Buy it!

Super Troopers? Never heard of it. Then I saw it. Then I hit play again and watched it twice in a row. Sitting in an Airbase in Turkey, I knew I had found what would be our number one "cruise flick." The movie that all the officers of Fighting VAQ-134, could watch together, then spend the next few weeks quoting. One guy even got a callsign, "Farva." Perfect. There is a lot of great material to chew on all through the movie. The rivalry, pranks, and rookie bashing are things we cherish. And we can all relate to having that one guy around who drives you crazy. Many of my peers have already purchased the movie. And we have incorporated many of the quotes into our cinematically based lingo.

My recommendation is to grab a bunch of friends, maybe some cold beverages, and have a good time. You just may want to become a Highway Patrolman.