My wife was feeling pretty flattened by a cold and wanted something dumb, so I figured it was the time for this one. I’m a fairly big Broken Lizard fan, despite their post-Super Troopers work being not quite at the same level (with Club Dread being downright awful), so I’m pretty much willing to watch whatever they do. I’d been dreading this one a bit, but it turned out to be at least partially decent. The first forty minutes or so are pretty enjoyably goofy comedy. Scott’s style of comedy meshes nicely with Chandrasekhar’s, and the glee with which he does things like strap on a helmet so he can dive at people in a bar fight works very nicely. Knoxville’s completely out of place here, and he just feels stiff and insufficiently nutty. The assorted cameos from the Broken Lizard crew are amusing (though the bit in which they re-enact the opening of Super Troopers is kind of an odd choice), so, for a while, the film was moving along nicely as a decent, goofy comedy.

Unfortunately, the entire third act consists of nothing but car chases, which slows things down significantly. I mean, the car stunts are very nicely done. I’m always glad to see the up-on-two-wheels stunt (which has certainly dropped in popularity since my childhood), but there’s only so much time I can spend watching cars driving on dirt roads before I lose interest.