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Features: DVD, Sensormatic
"Stoned teen-agers, nutty cops, topless chicks and car chases" (Newhouse News) perpetrate huge laughs in this outrageous comedy that's so funny it should be illegal. Captain O'Hagen (Brian Cox) tries in vain to control the imaginations and hormones of his bumbling team of five Vermont Highway Patrolmen. But when the opportunity to solve a real crime rolls their way, the formerly inept Super Troopers pounce into action to become highway heroes.
"Hilarious!" Gannett NewsService
"Damn, it's funny!" Harry Knowles, Ain't It Cool News
"Funnier than a squad car full of Hobbits." Premiere Magazine
Editor's Note
Broken Lizard, a comedy troupe formed by former students of Colgate University, wrote and star in the enjoyably lightweight comedy SUPER TROOPERS. They play state troopers who preside over a quiet stretch of highway in Vermont. The low crime rate allows them time to pursue their own interests--mostly playing elaborate pranks on each other and on the hapless speeders they stop. Their captain, O'Hagan (Brian Cox), asks them to settle down for a while, because the governor (an amusing cameo by TV's former WONDER WOMAN, Lynda Carter) is thinking of cutting off their funding and turning their precious highway over to the jurisdiction of the hated local cops, headed by the sneaky Chief Grady (Daniel Von Bargen). The wild and not very bright troops are unable to stay out of trouble, so they'll only keep their jobs if they somehow manage to crack a big drug case. Director Jay Chandrasekhar (who also stars as the smartest trooper, Thorny) does a great job of keeping things quick and light, and the easy camaraderie of the Broken Lizard troupe gives even the grossest humor in the film an appealingly playful quality, harkening back to the innocent days of movies like STRIPES.
| Features | Alternate Ending | | Audio Commentaries By Broken Lizard Comedy Team Members | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | DVD Package Includes Borat Bonus Disc! | | Extended Scenes | | Interactive Menus | | Outtakes | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Theatrical Trailers |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 10/31/2006 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 2240835 | | UPC: 00024543408352 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...[Chandrasekhar] does have a knack for orchestrating raucous comic teamwork..." 02/28/2002 p.66Total Film
"...These five comedians have the potential to be every bit as cultishly popular as Canada's 'Kids In The Hall'....SUPER TROOPERS showcases their enormous promise..." 11/01/2002 p.109 Variety 8 of 10
A hell-raising band of anarchic Vermont State Troopers administer their own perverse brand of justice and attempt to save their skins when budget cuts threaten to replace their unit in "Super Troopers." Following 1997's "Puddle Cruiser," this second feature from five-man comedy troop Broken Lizard, directed by group member Jay Chandrasekhar, is a fairly sustained barrage of broad undergraduate humor and gross-out gags that should tickle young auds looking for unsophisticated laughs...Often making the Farrelly brothers look like Noel Coward, Broken Lizard's material is good-natured and agreeably goofy, though it gets progressively thin and strained as the featherweight comedy runs into overtime. - David Rooney
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
"Super Troopers" plays like it was directed as a do-it-yourself project, following instructions that omitted a few steps, and yet the movie has an undeniable charm. Imagine a group of Vermont state troopers treating their job like an opportunity to stage real-life "Candid Camera" situations. Now imagine that all of the troopers have ambitions to be stand-up comics. And that they were inspired to get into the force by watching "Police Academy" movies. But that they are basically good guys. That kind of describes it..."Super Troopers" has kind of a revue feel. There is a plot, which somehow arrives at a conclusion, but the movie doesn't tell a story so much as move from one skit to another, with a laid-back charm that is more relaxed and self-confident than the manic laffaminit style of the "Police Academy" pictures. - Roger Ebert
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