QR Film Review: Super Troopers 2

Super Troopers 2 follows the old team of highway patrol officers as they are called back to deal with a border dispute with their Canadian neighbours. Similar to the first movie, the team find narcotics, and investigate who is trafficking them whilst trying not to trip themselves up too much. After the long wait for a sequel, one would have expected something different.

There are brief moments of hilarity but the jokes often feel over-used and unoriginal. They rely on call-backs from the original movie and lean on ‘lad’ humour that falls flat to a wider audience. The film does, however, portray some funny moments, playing on the stereotypes of both nations, though also feeling slightly stale. The constant repetition of the pronunciation of “sorry” gets old pretty quickly. 

The movie does have several references to stoner culture and one can imagine that it would be well received by a group of guys sitting in a college dorm room smoking some Mary-Jane, but without chemical enhancement, the movie falls flat.

Indeed, there was incredibly effort channeled into making the sequel (with a fundraising campaign by the site Indiegogo), though the same could not be said of the sloppy writing. Culturally and politically, we have come a long way from the original Super Troopers movie but it was obvious that Mac, Foster, Rabbit, Thorny and Farva certainly have not.