Movie Breakdown: Super Troopers 2

Pre-Screening Stance:

It’s been 17 years since the original Super Troopers came out.  SEVENTEEN.  Does anyone still care?  Here’s where I am – the last long-awaited comedy sequel I saw was Dumb And Dumber To (released 20 years after the first film), and since it wasn’t any good, I can’t say my hopes are high for Super Troopers 2.

Post-Screening Ramble:

I saw Super Troopers 2 completely sober, and I think that to even sort of enjoy it you have to be either drunk or high.  As for how the film stands on its own without any enhancements?  It’s OK.  The plot is rather ludicrous – the USA has realized that a small Canadian town should actually be a small American town, so they rework the border to include it.  While details are being sorted, the government hires the original Super Troopers squad (they all now work construction due to an incident with Fred Savage) to temporarily patrol the highways.  Naturally, things go poorly.  Actually, to be fair, they go all over the damn place.  The film steadily strays way out into left field and then stumbles all over itself as it tries to course correct and stay intelligible.  There’s some pretty funny gags, and there’s plenty of bits that often garnered no reaction at all from the packed theater I was in for the press screening.  In other words, Super Troopers 2 is as hit or miss as it gets.

There’s no particular reason you should go see this semi-forced, occasionally-inspired, but in-the-end unnecessary sequel in a theater.  Catch this one from the comfort of your couch at 1am as you rip bong hits and think too deep about what makes you laugh now as compared to when you were in college.

One Last Thought:

Emmanuelle Chriqui is so tan in this movie that it’s distracting.  Also her character, Genevieve, is not necessary in any way.