Broken Lizard, a comedy troupe I never heard of before until I started seeing trailers for this movie months back, has a movie out now called Super Troopers, an engagingly stupid cop/state trooper comedy. The plot involves a dead body, over a hundred kilos of grass, but that's just the baseline for the troupe to stage skits somewhat connected together (along with co-stars Marisa Coughlan, Daniel Von Bargen, and surprisingly Brian Cox who delivers some of the best lines of the movie). At times I saw what the film was trying to do to inspire laughs and indeed I did grin at a number of things throughout, and even burst out laughing in some scenes: the first drug bust scene, the fast-food scene, and one of the most disturbing gags I've seen in a number of years, the bear-f***er gag. But it fell flat at too many points where it could've been funnier. Still, Lizard has done the best with what they could've done, topping nearly all of the Police Academy movies, and delivering better than I expected. Grade: (a strong) B
Review of Super Troopers
