While I really try not to be a snobby movie critic - sometimes the sentiments are impossible to ignore and I find myself mostly agreeing with other movie reviewers.
Take last week’s new release “Super Troopers 3” that pretty much wasted all of its best jokes in the trailer.
I mean, when you consider the series overall, this is the worst entry that banked on early 2000s nostalgia, frat boy humor, and a paper-thin drug smuggling plot.
I mean, if you’ve seen both the original “Super Troopers” (2001) and its sequel “Super Troopers 2,” you’ve noticed the drug problem is always featured in these films.
While I’m not saying that it didn’t have its funny moments, over all, the shtick is worn out and I found more instances making me cringe than providing a sliver of comedy.
Troopers 3 is comedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar.
While it serves as a sequel to Super Troopers 2, the film was written by and stars the Broken Lizard comedy team - Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske.
The movie also features returning actors Brian Cox, Lynda Carter, and Marisa Coughlan with new characters played by Nat Faxon, Chace Crawford, Hannah Simone, Iqbal Theba, Sakina Jaffrey, Andrew Dismukes, Jon Rudnitsky, and Will Sasso.
Clocking in at 104 minutes long, the flick is rated R for sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug content.
The film opens in the middle of an Indian wedding featuring three of Vermont’s finest – Rodney “Rod” Farva (Heffernan), Robbie “Rabbit Roto (Stolhanske), and Carl Foster (Soter).
Roto and Foster are contemplating what led to the wedding while Farva dances for his wife-to-be Sarita Makundan (Simone).
After the pair complete their respective dance numbers, the story jumps two months prior to the wedding where Sarita is driving late at night on the way to her brother Arcot “Thorny” Ramathorn’s (Chandrasekhar) home.
While carrying on a hands-free conversation with her brother, her Mini Cooper is suddenly rammed from behind and driven off the road, causing Sarita to crash and her car to nearly catch fire.
Luckily, it seems that Farva happened upon the crash and rescued Sarita – leading to a sudden case of the “Florence Nightingale effect” as she falls in love with Farva at first sight.
Or, that’s what the troopers assume the duo’s accelerated relationship is stemming from and Thorny is beside himself with disgust and anger at how quickly Farve and Sarita are taking their relationship.
When Farva’s over-the-top engagement to Sarita spirals into chaos, the troopers must navigate Thorny’s schemes to break up the relationship, all while trying to bring down a strange new drug ring.
All the while, they continue to be a problem to their new Captain – Todd Markowski (Faxon) and break in the Gen-Z rookie Coy Burns (Dismukes).
Overall, if you’re a fan of Broken Lizard’s work, then you’ll be able to manage this latest entry into their lineup.
Notice how I said “manage” and not enjoy there – if you can sit through the whole thing, you’ll understand why I said it that way.
Otherwise, it’s best to just skip this one if you aren’t well-versed in frat boy humor.
