Coming fresh from the police academy, Dave Speed is sent to deliver a parking ticket to a member of a tiny Native American village in the Florida Everglades.

Unbeknownst to him, the U.S. government and NASA are preparing to conduct a secret radiation experiment by firing a nuclear missile loaded with red plutonium into the village, which has been evacuated.

Dave soon discovers that he has picked up a wide range of superpowers, including super reflexes and speed, endurance, telekinesis, precognition, hypnotism, and invulnerability.

Despite this, his powers enable him to discover a counterfeit money operation taking place in the city, which he learns is the work of a local businessman named Torpedo and his mistress Rosie Labouche, a former actress on whom Dunlop has a serious crush.

Going aboard alone, Dunlop finds the printing press and the latest stash of dud money, but is knocked out by Torpedo's men, who lock him into a freezer and then sink the trawler to destroy the evidence.

Once he finds Dunlop aboard, alive but frozen stiff, he uses a piece of bubblegum to create a balloon, and both men rise out of the ocean and float back to the city.

At the last instant, he manages to catch Dunlop (though in the process they wind up plunging through the earth and straight up to China), and both return safe and sound to prepare for Dave's and Evelyn's wedding.

[8] From retrospective reviews, Jason Buchanan of AllMovie found that Super Fuzz "still holds up as a fun, lightweight, and immensely entertaining way to spend a Saturday night with few friends."