SUPER TROOPERS 3
Depraved Shenanigans are Back for Another Round
What You Need To Know
SUPER TROOPERS 3 marks the next installment of the raunchy cop comedy that follows the depraved shenanigans of Vermont highway police officers as they prepare for Farva’s wedding to Robbie’s sister. After a car accident, the officers investigate vandalism that points to a new drug operation.
Overall, SUPER TROOPERS 3 falls short as a mediocre and likely unnecessary return to the original. The cast convincingly remains true to their characters despite the 10-year gap since SUPER TROOPERS 2.
This time, Farva, the obnoxious character, pushes boundaries, threatening his new relationship and the group’s cohesion. Thorny plots to break up Farva’s engagement to his sister, Sarita, while the Super Troopers work to crack a new drug ring in Vermont. The Super Troopers return for a new round of pranks and debauchery.
The movie opens with Officer Farva dancing in Bollywood fashion on a stage in Indian attire. Flash back to two months earlier. Senior Trooper Arcot “Thorny” Ramathorn patrols at night when a call from his sister, Sajita, interrupts him. During their conversation, a vehicle hits her from behind, sending it rolling down a cliff. Officer Farva pulls her from the wreckage, igniting love at first sight. Sajita claims she has just met the man of her dreams, horrifying Thorny.
Later, at the barracks, retired Captain John O’Hagen lingers, struggling with his retirement. Farva boasts about his upcoming marriage. Thorny declines to serve as his best man, informing Farva that his parents will visit to help prepare for the wedding. The new rookie, Coy Burns, remains surprisingly well-adjusted, accepting the usual hazing process. Captain Todd Markowski announces reports of a new drug from Canada: Canadian Crystal, and introduces their new electric police squad cars as part of a “new green initiative.” The officers dislike the cars but lack options.
During their patrol, the officers meet former drug addicts turned event planners, the Buchanan brothers. They gloat and bait the officers, revealing their role in planning Farva’s wedding. A high-speed chase ensues, but the brothers escape by jumping a lake. The officers question their coolness but ultimately reject any doubts.
Thorny attempts to dissuade Sajita from the wedding, believing she only thinks she loves Farva because of the accident. He decides to intervene, convinced his conservative parents will see the truth about Farva and call off the wedding. However, as the wedding preparations unfold, Thorny faces immediate setbacks.
The troopers investigate a series of vandalized maple syrup trucks linked to a “big syrup” company known for making fake syrup, angering locals. They question the Buchanan brothers, noticing similarities between the cases. The brothers insist they focus only on event planning, while their cousin, Betty, planning the wedding, provides an alibi.
As the situations converge and pranks escalate leading up to the Indian wedding, Thorny forces Farva to confess a secret that could change everything.
SUPER TROOPERS 3 presents a strong humanist worldview, featuring anti-Christian and false religion elements. This racy comedy, showcasing the original cast, suffers from a weak plot that prioritizes shockingly offensive jokes and repetitive callbacks to the original SUPER TROOPERS. The humor often veers into hurtful, gross, or negligent territory, focusing on sex, drugs, racism, and reckless illegal activity.
MOVIEGUIDE® finds the movie excessive and advises extreme caution due to its racial jokes, partial nudity, sexual situations, infidelity, gross images, excessive drug use, drinking, and strong violence.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
A humanist worldview with anti-Christian and false religion elements including a Hindu wedding and religious reference, where all characters involved act in self-interest with little regard to legalities and often use their positions of authority to participate in pranks and self-fulfillment. The movie is satirical, depicting police in a negative, caricatured way, including racist and sexist ways. Immature jokes throughout with little regard to morality, other than pursuit of a drug bust and pursuing criminals in unorthodox, reckless ways. There is very little redeemable content in this movie, except perhaps that true love is found at the end. However, one happy ending includes marriage to a vehicle
Foul Language
137 profanities including 77 uses of the “f “ word, 28 uses of the “sh” word. 13 obscenities including four OMG profanities. A Man makes a drunken joke about “God being an albino.” Men are shown urinating and vomiting. Jokes about urinating. Man puts hand up an elephants rectum, feces shown
Violence
Very strong violence including fistfights, gun shots, hitting with gun, stabbing, an explosion, man is bitten by venomous snake, breaking a man’s leg, a man falls and hits head, car chase scenes, a car crashing through building, a man is tied up and threated
Sex
Graphic adultery shown, sexual acts with strippers, graphic sexual noises, erections shown under clothing, a man kisses a car, couples kissing and touching over clothes. References to a polygamous lifestyle with multiple sex partners and condoms. Many sexual innuendos including oral, erections, genitalia, and various gross sexual references
Nudity
Partial
Nudity
male upper and lower, and topless women shown
Alcohol Use
Heavy alcohol use, drunkenness leading to violent and adulterous situations
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking. Heavy drug use including weed references, mushrooms, EpiPens, and a fictional drug and lab operation shown. Man purposely ingests a food he is allergic to;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Lying, deceit, stealing, kidnapping, bad role models, and generally dysfunctional family dynamics.
