Much as the first film mined a lot of its comedy from the syrup-swilling, tree-hugging, laid-back picture of Vermont and the surrounding North Country life that it painted, Super Troopers 2 roots its humor in the cultural, political, and - as it pertains to each country’s preferred units of measurement - incremental differences between the U.S. That’s not to say that Super Troopers 2 is lacking when it comes to laughs.
The film is conspicuously light on the sort of trippy weed humor that filled the original film. Evil), Will Sasso ( The Three Stooges), and Hayes MacArthur ( Angie Tribeca). The trio of Canadian Mounties are played by Tyler Labine ( Tucker & Dale vs. Where the first film had them feuding with the local police department, Super Troopers 2 pits the prank-happy troopers against a trio of Canadian Mounties and the mayor of the border town.Īlong with Cox and Broken Lizard members Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske as the Vermont troopers, the film casts Rob Lowe as a former hockey player who now serves as the mayor and owner of the local brothel, and Entourage actress Emmanuelle Chriqui as a cultural attaché working with the American and Canadian groups. The film picks up after the events of the 2001 film, and finds the troopers dispatched to police a region near the northern edge of Vermont that’s become the subject of a border dispute between the U.S.
The core cast of the film plays off each other well enough to get a laugh from even the most repetitive jokes.ĭirected once again by Broken Lizard member Jay Chandrasekhar, Super Troopers 2 brings back the five-man creative team as co-writers and stars, with Brian Cox also reprising his role as the troopers’ ornery commander.
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