Nick Nolte has a small but important part as Four Leaf Tayback the grizzled Vietnam vet who wrote the book the movie they are making is based on. Fortunately this is an ensemble and the focus never stays on one character too long. Ironically Stiller has the least interesting and funny character. To spoof properly you have to take reality and then exaggerate it. I agree that Downey gives a great performance but I also thought that Black's junkie withdrawal hit all the right notes. The over-the-top gore, ala Saving Private Ryan, that opens the movie harkens back to Monty Python, although in the scene Scott mentions with the director, Stiller doesn't know when to yell cut. But he does prove that he can still bust a move. Tom Cruise gives the most blistering stereotype as the foul-mouthed Jewish producer. Then you have the bling-&-booty rapper with a secret and the one level-headed character in the rookie. does a hilarious send-up of Russell Crowe. Stiller makes like Rambo, Black's multiple-character fatsuit movies are clearly based on Eddie Murphy, and Downey Jr.
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Ben Stiller knows how to use stereotypes and clichés in ways that are hilarious and refreshingly not politically correct. Tropic Thunder is very funny and action packed. It's nice to see the season going out with at least one high note like this one. Overall I've been pretty disapointed with Summer 2008's offerings. I don't want to give the joke away, but it's one I didn't see coming and the results are milked for all they are worth. It is amusing, but it's more the shock of seeing Cruise in the role than anything else.Īnd speaking of shock, this movie has one scene that did shock and make me laugh at the same time and that was the fate of the movie's director, played by Steven Coogan. I found the Tom Cruise thing to be almost more odd than funny. He deserves it for this way more than Heath Ledger deserves it for the Joker. He deserves a Supporting Actor nod for his performance. is easily the funniest person in the movie. This movie is hilarious and Robert Downey Jr. Other than that Eric, I couldn't agree with you more. It must be the parent in you Eric, because I never even noticed the swearing, or at least it never stood out to me that there was more swearing here than anywhere else. Swearing has its place in movies, but it alone is not funny. However, too often foul language seemed inserted into the script whenever the writers ran out of creative dialogue. Oh Jesus, you killed a hooker!" You have to be there.
I laughed hardest when Rick Peck said, "A hooker. Tropic Thunder is a hysterical farce that will have you laughing throughout most of the movie.
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explains to Stiller that the movie failed because, "You went full on retard." Instead of just partially, like Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump. Stiller's character once tried a dramatic role, playing a mentally handicapped. Much has been made, by the media desperate to start a controversy, about the use of the word "retard". If you ever wondered how good of a dancer Tom Cruise is, and lets be honest, who hasn't, you get your chance to find out here. "Seriously, a nutless monkey can do your job." He tells his assistant. He plays an extremely rude movie producer who uses more four letter words than any other. One of the biggest surprises, for me, was Tom Cruise. I'm authentic from head to toe." He gets so into his character that at one point he says, "I don't break character until the DVD commentary."
When dropped into the jungle, the director takes everyone's cell phones, "They didn't have cell phones in 68.
As the award winning Australian actor, playing a black American, he steals every scene. Black plays an over weight comedian who stars in lowbrow films. Stiller and Black play familiar characters. Before long, they find themselves in actual battles fighting a drug manufacturer. They are told that the jungle is full of cameras that will catch their every movement. To get them better into their roles, they are dropped into a real Asian jungle. The movie is over budget and the actors are a pain in the director's ass. Three movie stars: an action hero, a comedian, and a five time Oscar winner team up with a rapper and a rookie actor to film a Vietnam war movie. in Tropic Thunder.įrom the moment the first fake, pre movie, commercial for Booty Sweat energy drink and Bust-A-Nut candy bar, appear on screen you know that Tropic Thunder is a film that plays by its own rules.