Tropic Sprockets / Super Troopers 2

Tropic Sprockets  / Super Troopers 2

By Ian Brockway

“Super Troopers 2” by Jay Chandrasekar (Club Dread) is the unfortunate sequel about a group of state troopers and sex jokes. Apparently, the sequel was greenlit after receiving the necessary amount of funds online, supplied by fans. One wonders how this could be possible.

This film features the gang Farva (Kevin Heffernan) Mac (Steve Lemme) Rabbit (Erik Stohlhanske) and Thorny (Chandrasekar). They are summoned by Captain Hagen (Brian Cox) along with the Vermont Governor (Lynda Carter of TV’s Wonder Woman) to patrol the Vermont / Canada Border.

Most of the scenes are disposable and the dialogue oddly flat. The bulk of the humor is about nudity, sex and the way Canadians speak. Farva is fat and obnoxious. He delivers his colorless lines in such a uniform way that it is utterly without humor or joy in any form. His time on screen shows him falling down, attacking a bear, being incapacitated in a chair, eating M & M candies whole and getting shocked.
His character is rude and rude is fine. It is only that he is so crass as to be without charm. This is not offensive, shocking or unique, merely a bore and that is the worst offense of all. Rob Lowe is a villain here but he only attempts a French Canadian accent and struts around. Will Sasso appears as a Mountie but there is nothing for him to do except fire a gun, hide and (once again) use a Quebecois accent.

The jokes invariably hover around sex or lack thereof. Instead of being laugh inducing, every character gives mindless chatter instead of jokes. Some of it features torture. Again, not terribly jarring or offensive, only eye-glazingly boring as in a bad cartoon. The troop interrogate a strait laced couple with a “Who’s on first, What’s on second?” French routine that might have been funny once, but now plays trite and just plain dumb.
Shouting about sex, fighting with a bear and going on about accents is the full result and it ends up as an empty, boorish and profoundly unfunny film.

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