{"id":5594,"date":"2026-08-05T23:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:38:23","slug":"super-troopers-3-review-a-cult-comedy-franchise-seeks-no-converts-in-instantly-forgettable-third-go-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5594","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Super Troopers 3\u2019 Review: A Cult Comedy Franchise Seeks No Converts in Instantly Forgettable Third Go-Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t2018\u2019s \u201cSuper Troopers 2\u201d wasn\u2019t so much fan service as fan self-service. Kickstarted with nearly $5 million of crowdfunding after studios doubted the public appetite for a tardy sequel to the 2001 indie sleeper \u201cSuper Troopers,\u201d it gave the people what they wanted and not much else: a familiar rehash of the first film\u2019s broad characters and jokes, with a built-in hit of generational nostalgia courtesy of nothing more than time itself. 17 years separated those films; eight years later, along comes \u201cSuper Troopers 3,\u201d and any semblance of event status feels duly halved. \u201cSuper Troopers 2\u201d wasn\u2019t very good, but its very existence was a satisfying underdog story in itself; made in less time with less resistance from studio brass, the new, Disney-backed film has a more routine, less victorious air of franchise maintenance about it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5592\">\u2018Soulm8te\u2019 Review: Fembot Goes Rogue in Polished but Predictable Tech Thriller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor die-hard faithfuls of this proudly lunkheaded series, that might be enough. Continuing the misadventures of its core quintet of inept, resplendently mustachioed Vermont state troopers \u2014 played, as ever, by the five individuals making up the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, who also take a collective writing credit \u2014 \u201cSuper Troopers 3\u201d isn\u2019t obviously a step down from their last outing. The jokes are still wildly scattershot and frequently, knowingly lame; the production is still cheap and cheerfully scrappy; the whole ragged enterprise is still reliant on the evident affection and chemistry between its players to hold it together. None of that really amounts to a persuasive reason to exist on the big screen, however: At this point, perhaps simply turning \u201cSuper Troopers\u201d into a running sitcom, like a rural GenX \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine,\u201d would be a fitting move.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNot much has changed in the fictional backwoods town of Spurbury, Vermont, and its chaotic highway patrol department: Though gruff former captain O\u2019Hagen (Brian Cox) has officially retired, replaced by the earnestly politically correct Markowski (Nat Faxon), he still hangs around the office in stubborn denial of that fact. His erstwhile team of troopers, meanwhile, are all pushing sixty but staunchly refusing to grow up, as they spend their days joyriding in their patrol cars and pranking passing motorists. Juvenile rookie Coy (\u201cSNL\u201d star Andrew Dismukes) seems to fits right in, and if it weren\u2019t for his TikTok fixation, you\u2019d scarcely notice the age gap. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tMeanwhile, the running frenemy dynamic between senior trooper Thorny (Chandrasekhar) and his coarse, obnoxious colleague Farva (Kevin Heffernan) takes more strain than usual when Farva becomes engaged to Thorny\u2019s sister Sarita (Hannah Simone). Cue a bonanza of elaborate Indian-American wedding preparations, with the troopers eagerly if unhelpfully assisting in the festivities \u2014 save for Thorny, who agrees to be Farva\u2019s best man only so he can sabotage the nuptials from the inside. That \u201cSuper Troopers 3\u201d has resorted to standard wedding-farce shenanigans, somewhat awkwardly grafted onto its usual cop antics, suggests a certain dearth of ideas on the script front. It does, at least, allow for some mildly amusing culture-clash comedy centered on Thorny\u2019s not-so-traditional Hindu parents, gamely played by Sakina Jaffrey and Iqbal Theba.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5590\">Vampire Mockumentary \u2018I Love Paris\u2019 Takes Top Honors at 2026 Fantasia Film Festival Audience Awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA secondary narrative involving the troopers\u2019 bumbling attempts to crack a nefarious Canadian drug ring is pretty thin gruel, necessitating a lot of unfunny business about electric cars and maple syrup, devised to keep the other three Broken Lizard members occupied while imminent brothers-in-law Thorny and Farva hash things out. None of them really gets prime material to work with, but then there isn\u2019t a lot of that to go around anyway. Though the film devises a handful of elaborate grossout setpieces \u2014 bottoming out, so to speak, with Thorny fisting a wedding elephant \u2014 the most immediately funny gags here are often the most benignly stupid and disposable: This critic laughed out loud at the reference to an Indian clothes shop called Turban Outfitters, but repeating the joke certainly doesn\u2019t do much for it.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThen again, one wouldn\u2019t have thought repeating \u201cSuper Troopers\u201d a particularly good idea \u2014 least of all twice \u2014 but a whole quarter of a century later, here we are. \u201cSuper Troopers 2\u201d made a solid $32 million at the box office, but it still feels a stretch to describe this second sequel as existing by popular demand: Chandrasekhar and the guys are surely just amusing themselves at this point, confident that their cult will chuckle along with them. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5588\">Bella Thorne and Zendaya Got Pitted Against Each Other During Disney Fame and Snuck Off Set to \u2018Hash It Out\u2019 After Things \u2018Got Pretty Bad\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<p>\t\t\u2018Super Troopers 3\u2019 Review: A Cult Comedy Franchise Seeks No Converts in Instantly Forgettable Third Go-Round<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<h2>\n<p>\t\tReviewed online, Aug. 5, 2026. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 104 MIN.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Production:<\/strong><br \/>\nA Searchlight Pictures presentation of a Broken Lizard Industries, Cataland Films production. Producer: Richard Perello. Executive producers: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Peter E. Lengyel, Michael Bowes.\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Crew:<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Jay Chandrasekhar. Screenplay: Broken Lizard. Camera: Joe Collins. Editor: Spencer Houck. 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