Super Troopers

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with three college aged men heading in a car down the interstate somewhere in Vermont. The kids are smoking heavy amounts of weed and having a discussion about whether or not if you own a beach property if you own the sand and the water. They are then stopped by officers Ramathorn and Rabbit, who demand their license and registration and ask the guys what they were doing. As they're getting ready to file a report, they're suddenly called away and the men are ecstatic to learn that they're getting off. But then a few minutes later, the cops are back and once again demand their license and registration. But the guys weren't pulled over for speeding. Instead they're pulled over for blatant offenses and drug violations. Officers Ramathorn and Rabbit take the guys into custody and they're being monitored on the radio by Officer Farva. Farva asks repeatedly if he's needed out there. Ramathorn and Rabbit assure Farva that they've got this one. A White Mazda Miata then passes by them at a break neck speed ensuing a high speed pursuit. They then radio Officer Foster - who's taken a siesta and gone fly fishing. They then end at a bar when it's revealed that the driver is another officer - Mac, who's trying to convince the college guys that he's a wanted killer, and sure enough they've bought it.The next day the officers are gathered at a local mom and pop shop for a breakfast before heading out on the road. Foster makes small talk with an attractive local cop named Ursula. We are then introduced to the local police, who it turns out, don't like the highway cops very much. Ramathorn and the rookie Rabbit are seen having a chugging contest with full bottles of maple syrup. Ramathorn wins by a mile while Rabbit struggles to keep up. They then get in a fight being provoked by local officer Smy. Captain O'Hagan who runs the Highway Dept. enters to put a stop to the fight.Back at headquarters, O'Hagan is instructing his officers that they're in danger of being cut from the state budget and that they really need to step up their game and start taking things more seriously. Farva pulls a prank on Rabbit involving a bar of soap in the coffee, and their distraction proves the point that O'Hagan was trying to make. Later that day the officers are out on patrol. Foster and Ramathorn decide to play the "cat game" where they see how many times they can casually insert the word "meow" into the conversation.The next day while at the station, they're tipped off to a 1052. They go to the scene which involves a Winnebago and a dead body inside. What they don't know upon investigating is that there's a dead woman inside face down in a pile of pig food, and a live and extremely angry pig is terrorizing the Winnebago. Ramathorn orders Rabbit to get the crime scene tape, but it turns out that the local police have already beat them to it. Ramathorn gets in a shouting match with Chief Grady over jurisdictional grievances. They then get into a huge fight that ends with punches being thrown.Back at the station, O'Hagan is furious at his officers and it seems that they've attracted some negative attention in the press because of the Winnebago fight. But Ramathorn and Foster are seen playing another prank on Rabbit involving shaving cream and a locker. Outside, while washing his car, Rabbit and Farva get into it when Farva talks about John Denver winning the country music award, while the guy who was supposed to win lit the award on fire in front of the whole show. He then sets fire to the tape that Rabbit is listening to. Rabbit talks about the incident that got Farva suspended from road duty when he went haywire on a bus full of unruly school kids.During the weekend, Ramathorn and his girlfriend watch their son in a Little League softball game, and unfortunately the local police have kids on the opposing team. Pranks and hilarity ensue - involving a giant thing of cotton candy that they send to Officer Rando, who seems less than amused and gets into a fight with the guy sitting in the bleachers behind him. While at the game, Foster has another conversation with Ursula and tells her he had a good time at the Winnebago fight. Ursula tells her that he can slug her back, but is instead hit by a foul ball. Officer Foster then goes and heads down to the local station in another attempt to pick up Ursula.While out on patrol, Ramathorn and Rabbit are then tipped off to a semi that skipped weighing in. This time they try the "repeat" game.That gets them into trouble - the driver, whose last name is Galakanokis, is driving for a company named Bunty Soap. He then locks the officers in the trailer and takes off. Several hours pass until the other officers arrive. Turns out Ramathorn and Rabbit got distracted by somebody doing a repeater. Ramathorn wonders what's inside the rows and rows of boxes in the trailer. They pick one up, and a huge brick of marijuana falls out of it.Back at the station, they're showing off the huge haul that they got from the Bunty Soap truck. They're then greeted by Spurberry Mayor Timber who assures O'Hagan that he's doing everything they can to battle with the governor's budget committee over who gets cut and why. Ramathorn then discovers that the Bunty Soap company is a fake company and doesn't exist. And that the driver was using a fake name and license. O'Hagan goes over to the local station where he's battling with Chief Grady over his theory that the Winnebago and the Bunty Soap truck are linked. A smug Grady informs O'Hagan that what they're doing is called "routine police work" and not chasing absurd conspiracy theories.Foster and Ursula finally have their first date. Unfortunately it ends rather poorly when they're locked in the back of Foster's police cruiser and have to have the door taken off. Meanwhile, Ramathorn and Rabbit have picked up two German tourists for driving in a Porsche 100MPH down the interestate. Rabbit begins heavily making out with the incredibly attractive passenger. Ramathorn - who has his son present, tries everything he can to get Rabbit to arrest them. On their second date, Foster places a prank call to the station to get Ursula outside. They then head into the impound lot where they begin making out on the bed of the Winnebago. Ursula jumps on top of Foster and smashes the bed. They then find more bricks of reefer with the same logo on them that they found in the truck. Meanwhile, Mac and Foster attempt to go undercover at the weigh station to get some intel about Bunty Soap but it turns out that neither of them can drive a semi.While filling up for gas and getting a snack, Farva is out watching speeders while Mac is getting hot and heavy looking at a billboard for a local strip club. His radar then catches a speeder going nearly 110 MPH. It turns out Rabbit took the Porsche for a joyride. Officer Farva returns to the station - where O'Hagan has informed the troops about the fact that they got an official government form to inventory their equipment. This incident with Rabbit was bad timing as O'Hagan takes him off the road and puts Farva back on. Neither Foster, Ramathorn, or Mac want Farva to be their partner. Unfortunately he's paired with Ramathorn.Farva's new found freedom back on the road proves to be incredibly short lived however. The next day he's out to lunch with Ramathorn at a local fast food place called Dimpus Burger. He attempts to order a "litre of cola", and the clerk, not knowing what that is, manages to anger the easily-angered Farva who gets in a fight with the clerk. As they sit down, Farva realizes that the cook spit in his burger. But the real offense comes when he pulls off a contest tab on his soda and it pours all over him. He then jumps the counter and proceeds to fight the clerk physically.Farva is arrested and taken to the local police station where he's being berated by the local officers. Grady then dismisses the other officers and tells Farva that he's got a job opening and that Farva would be the ideal candidate. Back at the station, O'Hagan is watching the looping security tapes from Dimpus Burger that clearly show Farva jumping the counter and assaulting the clerk, and is furious at Farva and permanently takes him off the road because it's all over the police banner and making their department look bad. Farva has also been subsequently banned from Dimpus Burger. That night while taking inventory on their equipment, Ramathorn, Mac, Foster, and Rabbit decide to smoke some of the reefer with the German tourist and watch a propaganda video that explains the origin of the monkey character that's on all the bricks of weed that they've accumulated. Farva has been demoted to being O'Hagan's janitor.Meanwhile, Foster and Ursula have their first public date, but since they don't want anyone knowing that they are together they are seen dressed as bikers, although Foster has a different idea of bikers than Ursula does. Ursula tries to tip Foster off to the fact that her boss and colleagues are up to something that could be criminal but doesn't know what that is yet and wants the Highway Dept. to figure it out, because she's tired of working for them under the conditions that they're treating her as a professional.The next day they're trying to figure out how they can get their department in front of the governor, who's in town for a whistle stop visit. The officers start formulating a plan that there's more in the Winnebago and that if they can get it in front of the governor that she'll reconsider her plan to shut down the department. Mac tries his hand at the "bulletproof cup" - an elaborate prank created by O'Hagan to get the rookies naked. But instead they used blanks, and not actual bullets.It's now time for the governor's visit. The troopers put their plan into action. They break into the police impound lot to get the Winnebago and drive it over to city hall where the governor's giving a speech. It's an open bar and Farva proceeds to get as drunk as he possibly can. They were right and Grady leaves the two dumbest officers at the station. They get a call. Outside is a man presumably having sex with a bear. It's actually an elaborate distraction - Rabbit in disguise. As they drive to the place where the governor's speech is held, as they get to the goods, they learn that they've already been had.That night, as they learn the shut down is unavoidable, they proceed to have one last party at the station and get really drunk. In the locker room, they're stunned to learn that Farva has switched sides and has become a local police officer. Furious, they hog tie Farva and take his cruiser out for a joyride, making a stop at Dimpus Burger and a couple of other places, including Grady's house, where a way too drunk O'Hagan wants to throw down fisticuffs with Grady. Ursula calls them on the radio. She is finally able to tip them off to what Grady and her fellow officers have been up to. Foster thinks that Ursula was the one who told Grady about the extra marijuana in the Winnebago but it wasn't.They drive to a remote area where they witness a plane that has just landed. Farva finally manages to free himself to stall them. But a drunk Ramathorn ensures Farva that if he helps them, he could be a hero in all of this. As they're watching the events unfold, Grady goes to meet the pilot of the plane which has Canadian designations and identifiers. Ursula meets up with the troopers and tells O'Hagan that she was the one who gave the troopers all those anonymous tips - about the college kids, the Winnebago, and the Bunty Soap company, that they're all linked to her boss. She's grown incredibly tired of the fact that they constantly put her on the radio and give her no field work. The other local officers are then seen unloading more giant bricks of marijuana from the plane into another semi that bears a striking resemblance to the Bunty Soap truck that they pulled over, and they finally figure out that Grady has been using the Spurberry police department to run protection for a huge drug ring. They then enact a plan to arrest the officers which then leads to a huge drunken brawl between the two departments. But unfortunately with no weapons, they search Farva's cruiser for anything they can for a distraction only to find a blow up doll and a few flare guns. O'Hagan is glad to put the handcuffs on Grady and read his rights.The next day, the troopers are gathered at O'Hagan's house where he is about to read a congratulatory letter from the governor. Unfortunately, despite the good they've done in tearing down police corruption, the governor still plans to shut down the department for good. Several months pass. We see Ramathorn and Foster operating a beer delivery service and are transporting a keg to a college frat party, which is held at the house of the guys that they had picked up going to Canada. They are seen as being rather mean to the former highway patrol men. Ramathorn, tired of their antics, finally pulls off the uniforms that he and Foster were wearing and reveal themselves to be the new local police. Farva, Ursula, Mac, and Rabbit arrive and they have a huge party.The movie ends with a post credits scene that shows the incident that got Farva suspended in the first place by attacking a school bus full of kids. The incident was caught on the surveillance camera on Farva's police cruiser.

Tags: cult, comedy, boring, prank

Review:
This movie should be an inspiration to both aspiring film-makers and to the big studios -- you don't need a $20 million actor and twenty-five different writers and a ridiculously contrived concept to make a successful comedy.
Not many movies keep on getting better and better as you watch them for the 5th, 6th or 7th time, especially comedies.
After seeing it a few times I rate this movie as high as Fletch and other classic comedies, probably higher.There is so many worthwhile jokes that I think it must have taken quite a while to write - if you don't have a similar sense of humour you would probably think they had written it all in one night which clearly wasn't the case.
There is not a lot to complain about with respect to the acting either - their style suits the movie perfectly.Remember that it is a comedy first and foremost - if you are looking for an clever story you have the wrong genre.
Regardless, there is nothing wrong with the plot and if you appreciate/comprehend the jokes the movie flows just fine.If you are going to watch it, watch it 2 or 3 times..
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.
Super Troopers LOOKS stupid but came through in the clutch with solid laughs from this comedy team.I'm not going to use some lame rating system like the other guy used but I will say this: IT IS BETTER THAN THOSE MOVIES HE MENTIONED.Super Troopers combines solid physical comedy with surprisingly solid comedy writing.
There are a LOT of jokes and gags here, most of them are fall-on-the-floor funny, and even if you don't get it, the movie will still make you smile.
I think this is the perfect movie to watch on a bad day.
It will cheer you up instantly.The film follows the ridiculously stupid antics of a team of five Vermont State Troopers, Thorny, Farva, Mac, Foster, and Rabbit, none of whom would really qualify for a bronze medal in the special Olympics (as far as police work goes).
These cops' idea of a good time involves playing bizarre, often rude mind games with the speeders they pull over (such as, trying to substitute as many words as possible with the word "meow," and repeating each other's lines), and chugging bottles of maple syrup in the nearby diner.
Once you see the movie for the third time, you will need to pause the movie occasionally in order to let out all your laughter from the last hysterical gag, and prepare yourself for the next one, which will of course, come probably as soon as you hit the play button.
This film really makes me want to see the other Broken Lizard movie, Club Dread, just so I can see these guys in action again.
Please watch it again if it isn't hilarious to you the first time.Super Troopers is proudly rated R for Language, Sexual Content, and Drug Use. Sex: 8/10 Violence: 5/10 Swearing: 10/10 Drugs: 7/10.
There are great performances from all of the characters including the stoners, cops, and troopers.The plot centers around the antics of a bored group of state troopers who play around with the people they pull over, despite the fact they are about to be cut from the state budget.
There are a number of great pranks, in addition to the good repartee between various characters.This is one of my favorite all time movies, and one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
The last good funny movie I watched was Rat.
watch so few comedy's that this is actually good.I don't know if it would be better to watch the second time round, so I'll leave that as a question.3/10Quality: 0/10 Entertainment: 5/10 Replayable:  ?/10.
I actually heard one person comment, "When are they getting back to the jokes?"  When they did, I found the jokes had the quality of the bad jokes one might make as small talk around the office--certainly not funny enough to hear in a movie.
My brother commented, "This is like Police Academy 8, except that movie would've been a lot funnier."Still cannot believe this was accepted at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival..
The opening scene, in which our comic troupe of troopers stop a car of stoned-out kids, may be a hint on how one needs to view this film to enjoy it..
I remember during the fight sceen where the Highway patrol officers get in a fist fight along the interstate with the local city cops, I knew that sceen was supposed to be funny but I didn't even as much as crack a smile, and I looked around me and no one else was realy laughing at it either.
In fact, to make the obligatory pun, this movie could be called Super Poopers, since that's what this movie basically is and what most of the `jokes' consist of.The slim-to-none plot is about highway patrolmen who like to mess with the people they pull over.
This unknown comedy troupe called Broken Lizard, who has been compared to Kids in the Hall and Monty Python (I can't imagine a bigger insult to those two talented groups) put together a poorly acted & scripted, rather disjointed film without *any* laughs whatsoever that left me wondering how such a film was ever made.
Playing a group of unlikable police officers, the jokes were weak and underwhelming, and made me nostalgic for the days of the "Police Academy" films- even the weakest sequel of those was funnier than this movie was (and don't get me wrong, I did not find the sequels to be funny).
Brian Cox is here and looks like he's having a miserable time here.As for the comedy, does not work.
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.
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?
This film has its funny moments, hardly comic genius, but by the same token not the least funny comedy ever by any means.The acting is good but without being spectacular, with some gags working & others not (but not as bad as some other films, say like Tomcats).
Hilarious cop comedy in the tradition of the POLICE ACADEMY series follows five nutty state troopers (Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar, and Erik Stolhanske) who must try to save their department from being shut down.
Broken Lizard followed up SUPER TROOPERS with the less successful (and less funny) CLUB DREAD in 2004..
This movie didn't give me any laughs and most of the time I was cringing at how bad some of the puns were.To give you an idea at how lame the jokes were without spoiling it, imagine a tough guy riding a little tricycle down a street.
But after the 1st 5 minutes, I noticed that the only thing funny in the movie were the parts they put in the trailer.
The problem for me was that this was meant to be an "outrageous", wild comedy (I think), but the whole thing seemed to be coming from a sort of middle-of-the-road, dull place, never crossing the line into anything surprising or really fresh.
This movie didn't get a single full laugh out of me, and wasted a good chunk of my time, which makes me mad.
I wouldn't have even found this funny at thirteen years old.The plot involves a bumbling Vermont highway police force who happen upon a drug smuggling ring.
You would think that a film about a group of state troopers trying to save their station from closing due to budget cuts would be old hat and cliched, and you probably would be right a small part of the time.
In the case of this movie I think you'd be advised to put your expectations of a cliche filled film away and prepare yourself for a very funny, very off beat film that looks at things in a different way.The joy in this film is that everyone is very real and they handle things in ways that are for the most part not very movie like.
The film was made by the Broken Lizard comedy troop and on screen they act and behave like they have been together for years and it shows.
Their ways of handling situations are not restricted by movie-doms rules so while a good deal of what happens maybe sophomoric, its not stuff you've seen a thousand times, the opening way of handling drugged out speeders for example.
Things don't always work perfectly, the pacing is off in places and some of the jokes fall flat, but if you want a good comedy thats not like a thousand others you've seen watch this flick..
One of the all-time great politically incorrect, totally irreverent comedies, which just about everyone, except probably your Aunt, is going to think is funny.
Just watch it, and you'll laugh all the time.When I saw the rating of it on IMDb, I wondered why it only has a 6.4, cause all the pages of comments were full of stars.
If you don't want to engage in a movie that's fine, but then don't come on the internet and vote it down."Super Troopers" is a hilariously funny movie for those who like comedy, and it easily makes your popcorn-movie-evening one to remember..
A friend of ours recommended this movie, mentioning it after we saw the Dukes of Hazzard and said, well, most of the guys in Super Troopers were in there.
Seen it like 15 times since :)If you're looking for some light comedy with good laughs, this is the one for you.
Funny characters, funny situations.It's a light movie, I recommend it to everyone who want's to enjoy a good laugh without a lot of thinking...
:)Broken Lizard did a good job here, no doubt about that.What I liked the most in this movie, was the acting, the characters, the plots, and everything that made me laugh.
Even though, it might not be obvious how good these guys play their role, after a while (or after you see this movie again), you will notice the funny faces they make.
This is one of those movies that some scenes are so well thought out with the details that you have to watch it a couple times to notice them all.
Since then I have watched it numerous times on Sky Movies.This is one of the funniest films I have ever seen.
Of course Troopers don't really act like this, that is what makes this movie so funny.
The story is good, the one-liners are great and the characters are well developed.Heres to the guys of Broken Lizard as I love to laugh and this movie makes me do just that.(MEOW!!!).
The burger guy, shows everyones normal perspective of cops." Hold the spit" yea right.I can't believe how good of a job Farva does in making the audience hate him.Ursula, the doll that is, was a highlight of the movie for me.
Having a good time not just trying to bust guys chops.I love this group and have seen other work of theirs and their funny with what ever part they play..
A "Police Academy" for the 21st Century ...Unfortunately, this movie is so lame and unfunny, it wouldn't even rate as a poor direct-to-video sequel to "Police Academy." Yes it IS that painful to sit through this very, very bad film.
Using a slew of stale gags for comedy, a downright bad script, and all-around untalented deliveries, the 'Broken Lizard' comedy team offers one unfunny yarn with "Super Troopers." The movie follows a gang of Vermont highway patrolmen, who love pulling pranks on whoever they pull over.
The "jokes" are lame, the plot goes no where, the movie dosen't come together probably, and whats worse its full of a bunch of no-name "actors" who obviously had nothing better to do.2/10.
There are too many better (actually funny)movies out there .
It compares itself to the comedy greats of the past but it is even lower than the badly-written TV sitcoms that have come about since the 1990s.The film consists of 103 minutes of tiresome, forced gags strung together by a hackneyed plot built around these shopworn gags, played poorly (albeit with enthusiasm) by forgettable actors.
I would never in my right mind rent this movie, but I saw it with a couple of friends and not once, throughout the entire thing, did we laugh.
Super Troupers, a slapstick comedy about a dimwitted bunch of highway patrol cops playing silly practical jokes with each other and their motorist victims whilst competing with the local regular police force, falls into none of these categories.
This small film is hilarious and single handedly put the Broken Lizard comedy troupe on the map and rightfully so as the film is highly quotable, extremely re-watchable and the comic timing of everyone involved is simply remarkable.
`Super Troopers' has a wacky cartoon-like quality that turns what might have been just a typical, lame-brained police comedy into an infectious little romp.
One of them was: "That's disgusting -- but funny."That could pretty much be my review of (most of) this movie, which manages to be both in-your-face outrageous _and_ subtle, or at least sly, and you never know which is next, so it's a lot of fun to watch.
No, it's not for kids; I'd even feel awkward watching it with some adults, but if you're alone or with people who can enjoy raunchy humor, this is very amusing.I agree with whoever said the cops in this movie seem more real than a lot of movie cops; these guys seem like just regular guys who happen to be cops, and I enjoyed their story more because of that.
I kept getting the feeling I really was seeing a little snippet taken from the actual lives of some cops somewhere...not that any given set of them would ever do everything in this movie, but somewhere, sometime, I'll bet most of these things really have happened, or at least something along these lines.
If you're one of those people who actually care for the hundred or so teen comedies that have been made in the past half-dozen years you might like to try a more mature version of the same thing, without the sour aftertaste, and with as much genuine humour as the rest of them combined.Take the gross-out scene earlier on.
you will want to quote the movie all the time as there are some really memorable scenes.
'Super Troopers' has taken the 'Police Academy'-films and changed it into something funny.
One of the differences is that the State Troopers in this movie want to be funny, things are not simply happening to them.
Of course the movie goes over the top at some points, especially with the Farva-character, but it is not distracting because almost every comedy these days has a character like his.This may not be a great movie, but is an entertaining from start to finish.
This movie rules and I would recommend it to anyone who like cursing, and loves a lot of funny stuff.
This movie rules and I would recommend it to anyone who like cursing, and loves a lot of funny stuff.
This thingness movie rules and I would recommend it to anyone who like cursing, and loves a lot of funny stuff.
This thingness movie rules and I would recommend it to anyone who like cursing, and loves a lot of funny stuff.
This movie is so original and It is great to watch 300 times and it has lots of quotes to use.
This movie is so original and It is great to watch 300 times and it has lots of quotes to use.
This movie is so original and It is great to watch 300 times and it has lots of quotes to use.
This movie is so original and It is great to watch 300 times and it has lots of quotes to use.
There's too many little funny things in it to mention, you have to watch it a few times to catch them all, and if your like me you'll want to.
i strongly recommend this movie for a good laugh.MEOW!.
Kind of funny when I saw it the first time as Police Academy.
Just like if I see a good comedy with a few truly awful gags, I'm not going to give it a bad review.So I am definitely suggesting you check out "Super Troopers" on video.
Though it is fairly light on plot and there are things people could say detract from the movie, I say it's just a fun comedy, it's not meant to be Dr. Zhivago.
Hopefully we have a new comedy writing group picking up on some good movies, since SNL hasn't been trustworthy in years in the feature film category..
The thing that gets me is that I like stupid humor, but this movie just doesn't even have THAT.
Gosh, I think I chuckled (not all-out laugh, mind you) maybe three times during the entire movie.
Everything was horribly predictable.I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, not even people I don't like.
If you haven't seen Police Academy 7, this movie will seem funny and original..
Super Troopers redefined the definition of bad film making.
Super Troopers was a great movie is was funny, wild, and crazy all packed into one movie.
All the actors that played roles were actually a good fit for the movie it was hilarious.
I like that they made a second one but nothing gets better than the original they are both really good comedy movies but the original is always the way to go..