I have a list of movies that, when airing on TV, I tend to get sucked into. "Super Troopers" is absolutely one of those. This thing's hysterical. It's sophomoric to the core, but it'd be a disservice to chalk it up to your run-of-the-mill immaturity. On paper, pretty much all of these jokes should fall flat; but this group of players is extremely well-suited to the material - which is really just a long series of memorable one-liners. And then they throw in Brian Cox and Danial von Bargen, and there's no weak link in this cast. But it's really the stupid things these guys resort to when they're bored. Sometimes I think we should all incorporate cat games into our everyday.

I love this movie.

8/10

This was a welcome change of pace, a film that was a bit independent and a bit mainstream, yet all in all, was still hilarious. With an unknown and unproven cast, this film captured a certain sense of zeal within a viewer, certainly making the viewer wish highway patrolmen were this funny and irregular all the time. Funny, even though the comedy was sometimes low brow, this film certainly earned its accolades at the Sundance Film Festival.

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