SUPER TROOPERS REVIEW!!! (THROWBACK SERIES) (HOW CAN THIS MOVIE BE 21 YEARS OLD ALREADY???!!!)
- Matt Palmer
- May 2, 2023
- 2 min read
Initial release date: February 15, 2002
Studios: Fox Searchlight/Jersey Shore/Broken Lizard
Plot: Always looking for action, 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.
Cast
Jay Chandrasekhar - Thorny
Erik Stolhanske - Rabbit
Steve Lemme - Mac
Kevin Heffernan - Farva
Paul Soter - Foster
Marissa Coughlan - Ursula
Daniel von Bargen - Chief Grady
Brian Cox - Captain O'Hagen
Jim Gaffigan - Larry Johnson
Writer(s): Broken Lizard (Chandrasekhar; Stolhanske; Lemme; Heffernan; Soter)
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar (Easter Sunday; Super Troopers 2)
Rated R for language, sexual content and drug use (100 minutes)
Super Troopers will always be one of those comedies that will have you burst out in laughter. Sure, the humor can be out there at times. Yet, no matter how many times you see it, it'll be funny as hell!
All the characters have their own hilarious, memorable moments, including Captain O'Hagen, played by Brian Cox. The scenes where he appears kinda wasted towards the end are really hysterical and the movie shows that this usually dramatic actor can be funny with the right material.
All of the gags are extremely hilarious and the opening scene will always be one of the funniest ways to open a comedy! I honestly can't even think which gag is the most hilarious since all of them are great at keeping you laughing. Sometime down the road, I'm definitely going to check out the sequel that came out a few years ago!!
Here are a few fun tidbits for Super Troopers!
In the syrup chugging scene in the diner, the first few takes were done with the actors drinking thick iced tea from syrup containers, but the iced tea didn't look realistic enough. Real syrup was brought in, and the actors did several takes in which they actually chugged entire bottles of syrup. These are the takes you see in the close ups, however, some wide shots with the iced tea were kept in.
In the "cat game" scene, the word "meow" was actually said eleven times.
The movie was originally supposed to be set in the 1970s.
The movie grossed $18.5 million in the US and a total of $23.2 million worldwide on a budget of a few million. Overtime, it would eventually become a cult classic and made an additional $60 million from VHS (remember those?), DVD and Blu-ray rentals.
A 2018 sequel was funded partly through crowdfunding site Indiegogo and was released in April 2018.
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