Super Troopers 2001

Critics score:
35 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Nick A. Zaino III, Boston Globe: Broken Lizard has a way to go to match the absurdity and conceptual genius of Monty Python or Kids in the Hall, but Super Troopers has promising moments of oddity. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It's consistently funny, in an irresistible junior-high way, and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It made me yearn for the golden era of January, when Slackers was released. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: It's a scattershot affair, but when it hits its mark it's brilliant. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether, in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: You laugh neither with it nor at it but rather sit counting the minutes while the movie laughs, for no good reason, at itself. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Anyone who has ever been stalked on the highway by a twirling red light and a siren should find satisfaction in this send-up of state trooper foibles. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: There's nothing super about Super Troopers except for those deep into the low end of the frat-house mentality that equates smart-alecky with hilarity. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [A] hit-and- often-miss comedy. Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: This 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: The movie's mostly a succession of predictable skits, leavened only by the occasional amusing one-liner and played by actors who aren't actors so much as just a bunch of guys goofing off. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but I almost can; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: The dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

David Rooney, Variety: Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air. Read more