There's little evidence of production value and even less in the way of a budget (don't even ask about plot), but "Super Troopers," a goofy rookie-cop comedy in the "Police Academy" tradition, nevertheless manages to pull off its own brand of scrappy, if limited, appeal. Compared to what tends to pass for comedies these days, this creation of the five-man sketch-comedy team billing itself as Broken Lizard actually induces chuckles at acceptable intervals, which puts it well ahead of the game. With a sense of the risque that owes less to current "American Pie" gross-out levels than to the comparative quaintness of 1970s-era National Lampoon magazines, the Fox Searchlight Sundance 2001 pickup probably won't reach significantly beyond the campus crowd, but again, given those low costs, it won't take much to put it in the black.

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