Big budget, big stars, big concept -- surprisingly little payoff.
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08/25/08
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Tropic Thunder (2008)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 161 Fresh: 134 Rotten:27 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus:
With biting satire, plenty of subversive humor, and an unforgettable turn by Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder is a triumphant late Summer comedy.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Theatrical Release: Aug 13, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $65,839,915
Synopsis: Ben Stiller. Jack Black. Robert Downey Jr. Comedy fans can start drooling immediately at the thought of these three funnymen joining forces in TROPIC THUNDER. The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey, Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel
Director: Ben Stiller
Screenwriter: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen
Story: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux
Producer: Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Eric McLeod
Screenwriter: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen
Story: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux
Producer: Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Eric McLeod
Reviews
Even if Tropic Thunder doesn't move you to tears, it deserves your consideration.
08/22/08
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08/22/08
Downey Jr. steals the film as an actor's actor... it's a totally calculated "great performance," but not necessarily an easy or obvious one.
08/21/08
This film is genuinely uncomfortable. In fact, you may want to make sure you know the person you see this movie with very well.
08/21/08
... director Ben Stiller gleefully severs the hand that feeds him in his vicious, funny Hollywood satire.
08/21/08
This Hollywood industry parody features solid performances from Robert Downey Jr, Jay Baruchel and Tom Cruise and a generally funny execution.
08/20/08
One part hilarious; one part offensive; one part too inside Hollywood
08/20/08
Launches a relentless satirical attack on Hollywood, good taste and political correctness -- and emerges the winner in the resulting best-two-falls-out-of-three grudge match.
08/20/08
Top Critic
After the dazzle of the early scenes, something droops and flags in Tropic Thunder.
08/18/08
Top Critic
Stiller's parody on big scale war movies as a means to launch a healthy dose of crudity and raunch is well aimed at audiences in tune with shock satire.
08/18/08
Finally, a comedy that has more laughs than the ones in its trailer.
08/18/08
Feels only half as funny as it should be, falling back too often on big action sequences that are too ridiculous to work on any level.
08/17/08
Not only one of the funniest films of the year but also one of the smartest.
08/17/08
A daring, politically incorrect satire on the movie industry that turns out to be one of summer's loosest, funniest comedies.
08/17/08
Simple Jack is not a bone-headed pandering Hollywood idea of what a mentally handicapped person might be like, but a joke about how Hollywood often misses the point and underestimates its audience.
08/17/08
Saving the best for first in the case of a radically raunchy pseudo-prologue, the most frightening episode in this jungle gross-out is not warfare, but Cruise's newly bald, hairy and paunchy bizarre update of his classic Risky Business musical romp.
08/17/08
Make Satan's Alley. Do it now while Robert Downey Jr. is still Michael Phelps hot. The world needs more monk love set to Enigma.
08/16/08
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