It's apparent when watching Super Troopers 2 that every bit of it was crafted with care and consideration for Super Troopers fans. When speaking with the Broken Lizard guys in an interview (which you can read here), they mentioned that they wrote a staggering 35 drafts and crafted thousands of jokes, only keeping the ones they felt were best in the finished film, and their effort really pays off. Despite having a handful of groaners, the jokes and gags here really land, some of which hit with killer accuracy, and while the first film's hilarity can be reduced to a handful of great scenes, the jokes in Super Troopers 2 are more evenly spread and deliver a quality chuckle or haymaker laugh ever couple of minutes.

It's a Broken Lizard film, so we're not dealing with a lot of heady high-brow humor, but Super Troopers 2 is without a doubt a smarter film than anything they're put out previously. This mostly shines through their solid critique of the typical American ideology, which embodies the current political climate with accidental precision. The film also smartly bends and twists aspects of the first film, but by far its biggest weakness is that it retreads a lot of the same terrain, which involves another twisty drug smuggling plot line.

But story isn't the reason we go to see a Super Troopers film, is it? Nope, it's more about the absurdity, the laughs, and the gags, and there's enough of that to keep the blood pumping through an otherwise dead narrative.