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Updated · The A.V. Club · Aug 5

Super Troopers 3 Pits Thorny Against Farva's Wedding to Sarita, 24 Years After Original

Updated

Updated · The A.V. Club · Aug 5

Super Troopers 3 Pits Thorny Against Farva's Wedding to Sarita, 24 Years After Original

Q: How does a maple-syrup drug ring tie into Farva's chaotic Indian wedding in the newest Super Troopers installment?

The maple-syrup drug ring is the movie’s parallel crime plot, running alongside Farva’s chaotic Indian wedding and eventually feeding the broader chaos around it. In *Super Troopers 3*, Farva’s engagement to Sarita, Thorny’s sister, drives the main comedy: Thorny tries to sabotage the match while the troopers get pulled into elaborate Indian wedding preparations. At the same time, they are investigating a Vermont-based scheme involving a new drug ring linked to maple syrup, described in coverage as a “Big Syrup” or “Canadian Crystal” operation, along with vandalized syrup trucks and Canadian smugglers. The connection is less that the drug ring causes the wedding and more that it gives the troopers a case to bungle while the wedding spins out of control. Reviews describe the film as splitting its time between wedding farce and a thin but recurring criminal investigation, using the syrup scheme to create chases, pranks, and side plots for the rest of the ensemble while Thorny and Farva feud over the marriage. So the syrup ring ties in as the film’s secondary engine: it keeps the cops in action, folds Vermont-specific absurdity into the story, and helps push the climax where the wedding drama and the troopers’ case collide in one larger comic mess.

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Farva’s planned marriage to Sarita drives the new film, with Thorny trying to wreck the relationship because he cannot stand Farva becoming his brother-in-law.
Sarita’s bond with Farva stems from his rescue after a serious car crash, a backstory that deepens Thorny’s resentment while delighting Farva.
Broken Lizard frames the third installment less as a reinvention than as a high-spirited farce, leaning on the troupe’s familiar prank-heavy chemistry rather than saying much about its aging troopers.
Released 24 years after the 2002 original, the sequel suggests the series still trades on the affable silliness that lets Super Troopers endure beyond a typical one-sequel comedy run.