Sunday, April 24, 2011

3rd media review

Movie Review- Super Troopers
The film takes place in 2000 in the fictional town of Spurbury, Vermont, near the Canadian boarder. The plot centers on five Vermont State troopers who seem to have more of a knack for pranks than actual police work. The experienced troopers, Thorn, Mac, and Foster, spend most of their time devising new ways of messing with the heads of the people they pull over and hazing the new recruit, "Rabbit". They also find time to torment their easily infuriated radio dispatcher, Rodney Farva, who has been exiled from patrol work because he was involved in a fight with several students during a traffic stop of a schoolbus. The troopers have an ongoing rivalry with the Spurbury Police Department, Spurbury's local police. They repeatedly enter conflicts with them ("highway cops versus the local cops").  Their chances to keep their station rise when they uncover a potential drug smuggling ring. When they suspect a connection to a murder investigation by the local police, highway Captain O-Hagan tries to get local police chief Grady to cooperate, but fails to do so as Grady wants the highway station shut down so his station can have a bigger budget.
During this time, Foster secretly develops a relationship with the local police dispatcher Ursula, where together they find a stash of confiscated marijuana hidden in the local impound. Ursula suggests stealing the marijuana from the impound and show it to the governor during a banquet so they can convince her to keep their station open. However, Grady finds out about their plan and shows the marijuana to the governor himself during the banquet.Defeated, the defrocked troopers learn that it was Farva, not Ursula, who informed Grady in exchange for a position at the local station. Farva took the position out of feeling disrespected, but wants to make amends. They find out that the local police station actually runs protection for the drug smugglers. Together, along with Ursula, they dispatch the corrupt policemen and smugglers.
Three months later, Thorn and Rabbit are working as beer delivery men. They go to a house party run by a set of college kids they arrested for marijuana possession at the beginning of the movie. The college kids, who are underage, are at first panicked to see them, but become relieved when learning they got fired, and take the opportunity to pester them as payback for earlier treatment. Thorn and Rabbit take off their delivery clothes to reveal they are actually Spurbury police officers, having replaced their corrupt predecessors along with the others, and are now free to continue their shenanigans. I give the film 4 out of 5 stars.

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