TL;DR – This is an incredible juvenile film, but goodness, do they commit to the bit.

Post-Credit Scene – There are mid- and post-credit scenes.

Disclosure – I paid to watch this film.

Super Troopers 3 Review Introduction

Look, it might be nostalgia talking, but I do have a soft spot for the Broken Lizard gang, because even though a lot of their comedy is quite juvenile, they commit to it with all their will. The first Super Troopers is this odd encapsulation of the post-millennium world and became a cult classic for a reason, and the sequel Super Troopers 2 recaptured some of that fun. But is third time the charm?  

So, to set the scene, life has continued for the Vermont Highway Patrol; only time has aged them, and now there are electric cars everywhere. But what no one could expect is that when Thorny’s (Jay Chandrasekhar) sister Sarita (Hannah Simone) is run off the road, it would be Farva (Kevin Heffernan) who would be there to rescue her from the wreckage and save her life. One whirlwind romance later, the pair are due to be married, much to Carl (Paul Soter), Mac (Steve Lemme), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), and new rookie Burns’ (Andrew Dismukes) merriment. But with Thorny and Sarita’s parents, Dr. (Iqbal Theba) and Mehta Makundan (Sakina Jaffrey) coming into town, Thorny has a mission: show Farva’s real side to his conservative parents and break up the marriage.    

Goodness, it is Juvenile.

I could say that this film is juvenile, but if you have watched the trailer, you already know that, but goodness is it ever. I could say Elephant, EpiPen, and mushroom-laced chocolates, and I would be barely scratching the surface of what is going on in this film. However, it is not just gross-out humour, or the kind of comedy where they try to force laughs out of you by just throwing the most out-of-pocket things at the screen and hoping something sticks. No, they commit to the bit in a way that few shows that don’t need a warning at the start can get away with.

Old Friends Back Together Again.

 Part of how a film like this works, other than casting Brian Cox to come in and steal every scene he is in, is because it is a group of friends that have worked together for decades. There is a level of camaraderie that you can feel through the screen, and because of that you are willing to see where this wild world is going to take you. It also slightly dampens the truly awful things they say to each other, because you can sort of get away with that as friends, or at least co-workers that have been through the metaphorical trenches together. Look, their rapport is off-the-charts, and it shows.

It’s a Mad, Mad, World

The framework that all of these shenanigans are attached to is this absolute disaster of a wedding. It looms as this iceberg coming closer as the failed attempts to break up the bride and groom pile up. It creates most of the tension of the film, but not all of it. There are feelings of getting older and not being the focus of the world, cross-cultural communication, and the fear of progressing but also of being replaced. I am not enough of an expert in Indian culture to know if they are being respectfully lampooned or not, but given the director and one of the writers, I feel like I can err on the side of the former rather than the latter. While you will see a lot of the story coming, great work from the core cast, and the supporting players such as Chace Crawford, Lisa Gilroy, Hannah Simone, Iqbal Theba, & Sakina Jaffrey make it a fun ride anyway. Also, you won’t see all of it coming; the film is way too chaotic for that.  

Recommendation

In the end, do we recommend Super Troopers 3? If you are a fan of the first two films and/or Broken Lizard, then absolutely give this one a watch. It is not the most original story that I have ever watched, and if you don’t like juvenile humour, then this is not the one for you. But it may just be my nostalgia talking, but I had a good time here.   

Have you watched Super Troopers 3? Let us know what you thought in the comments below. If you liked Super Troopers 3, we would recommend Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to you because I feel it might be the only other film I have seen this year that captures that same sort of chaotic energy.  

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Bluesky at @Tldrmovrev, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of Super Troopers 3
Directed by – Jay Chandrasekhar
Written by – Broken Lizard
Based on – Super Troopers by Broken Lizard
Music by – Leo Birenberg & Zach Robinson
Cinematography by – Joe Collins
Edited by – Spencer Houck
Production/Distribution Companies – Broken Lizard Industries, Cataland Films, & Searchlight Pictures
Starring – Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Brian Cox, Marisa Coughlan, Nat Faxon, Chace Crawford, Andrew Dismukes, Hannah Simone, Iqbal Theba, Sakina Jaffrey, Jon Rudnitsky, Lisa Gilroy, Lynda Carter, Rory Scovel, & Will Sasso
Rating – Australia: MA15+; Canada: 14A; New Zealand: R; United Kingdom: 15; United States: R