Super Troopers 2
Short description
A border dispute between the United States and Canada gives the disgraced Vermont highway patrolmen known as the Super Troopers a chance to redeem themselves. Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva are sent to take over a police station in a town whose national allegiance has suddenly become unclear, and to keep order in the contested area while officials on both sides argue over the border.
Jay Chandrasekhar directed the film and shares screenplay credit with Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan. It followed his earlier features Super Troopers, Club Dread, The Dukes of Hazzard, Beerfest and The Babymakers, and came before Easter Sunday and Super Troopers 3. Chandrasekhar, Heffernan, Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske all reprise their roles from the first film as the five patrolmen, with Lynda Carter as Governor Jessman. Richard Perello produced, and the production involved Broken Lizard Industries among its companies.
Made for about 14 million dollars, the comedy took roughly 32 million dollars worldwide, a return of more than twice its budget. On TMDB it holds a rating of 5.9 out of 10 from 545 votes, while critics' reviews average 4.6 out of 10 from 103 reviews, so audiences rated it somewhat more favorably than critics did.
What's left behind the scenes
- When Eric Stoltz's character (who played Rabbit) has his genitals shaved, he complains that the shaving cream is starting to burn his skin and asks if it contains menthol extract. This is a reference to the first film in the franchise, where this character, covered in cream, was locked in a locker room, and the cream turned out to contain menthol extract. The cream actually did start to burn the skin after a while, so after filming the scene, Stoltz went to a nearby fire station, where he was sprayed down with a fire hose.
- Director Jay Chandrasekhar did not begin filming until the actors involved in the movie returned to the weight they had during the filming of the franchise's first film (2001).
- The film's screenplay was rewritten several times. Only one episode from the first draft remained: the scene in which Kevin Heffernan's character talks about chewing gum.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
