Tropic Thunder
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Movie Reviews of Tropic Thunder
Movie Review: No one is safe; Loved it all!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ben Stiller has crafted a fine, very funny film, and the cast is outstanding. Others were offended, but I'll bet you anything that it's the way Hollywood treats everyone at large. Stiller, Downey, Black, McBride, McConnaughy...all have their hearts in to provide this most insane and hysterical display of people behaving badly. Jay Baruchel is especially engaging, and Nick Nolte looks like he's having more fun that he's had in years. Everyone in the cast is totally buying in to this insanity, and there's not a weak link in the cast. I only bought the 1-disc version, due to finances at the time. I've watched it a few times, and there are always things I missed the first few times. which can only remind me of the first time I watched "Some Like It Hot". Very funny, very insane, very enjoyable. I didn't know that it was Tom Cruise playing the crude producer until the credits rolled, most impressive and enjoyable performance. A really committed performance, that I initially thought should be nominated for something. To go down the list of performances, it seems that Robert Downey is getting all the praise, but my favorite was Jay Baruchel. I would also like to see more of Bill Heder, as Cruise's lackey. He was fun. The script, much improvised I'm sure, was no end of revelation and discovery, so very funny. For those who have only seen it once, watch it again. I missed a lot the first time. Also, Matthew McConneghy had a fun part, and his ring-tone didn't strike me as funny until my second viewing. Overwhelming, crazy display of genius. All involved should be commended.Movie Review: "It...mu...mu...made me hap..py."
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so embarrassed to say this but I love this movie so much, just bloody love it. I cannot even remember when something made me laugh so hard that I kept going back and watching certain scenes over and over. Robert Downey Jr.'s comeback is complete. As a 'black dude', he just nails it and never lets go. Believe me, you get over feeling weird about it immediatly, it's just too good, too freakin' authentic and hilarious- but NOT disrespectful. He's so good, so perfect. And JB...When Jack Black is `in character' in character, his New York accent literally made me cry. The skinny guy with the guts hanging out, hilarious, Hamlet 2, hilarious, just everything comes together perfectly. Nick Nolte? Nick Nolte?!
And it's all due to Ben Stiller who literally took every bit of his successes (Zoolander) and failures (Heartbreak Kid) and created this just absolutely pitch perfect comedy. It's been so long since I could say that a movie made me pee my pants with delight. Thank you, Ben Stiller, for the gleeful humiliation. I'm glad I was it at home in front of my Sony BRAVIA KDL-46XBR6 46" LCD TV when it happened. Yep, Mother Nature's not the only one who pissed her pantsuite.
Just one bad thing, Tom Cruise was creepy. Normally, I don't mind him too bad but in this movie, he was creepy and not fun creepy, just creepy. I think Stiller thought it would be fun to have him being so outrageous and yeah, it's fun but it pushed the creepy envelope for me. Tom Cruise is just creepy for me and I just think he's, well, creepy.
Movie Review: More Stupid!
Summary: 5 Stars
I checked out some of the one star reviews here and can't help but wonder if you people (and by that I mean one star reviewers) saw the same movie I did.
First let me say that I'm not at all a fan of Ben Stiller movies, including "There's Something about Mary." I find him difficult to watch and "more stupid" than funny. However, this movie nearly made me spit my beverage across the room on several occasions.
I never liked Tom Cruise much either. To me he makes Keanu Reeves look like Sir Laurence Olivier. He is great in this movie; easily his best performance...yes, I said it.
Jack Black is, well the same Jack Black you've seen him in practically everything he's ever been in. No surprises there.
If Hollywood awared best actor Oscars for ridiculous comedy, Robert Downy Jr. would win in a land slide for this.
I confess that I love politically incorrect humor. Case in point, I thought "Team America: World Police" was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. I rated it up there with the original Pink Panther films. I'm a pretty tough sell for comedy films and for me to laugh out loud at a movie; it has to be screamingly funny. Tropic Thunder is. Ignore the nay-sayers. If you don't offend easily and love comedy that is "more stupid" (obviously my favorite line in the movie), this is for you.
Movie Review: I loved the concept and the screenplay is great!
Summary: 5 Stars
This 2008 film had me laughing hysterically from the very beginning. It's a spoof about war movies and is full of sharp edged wit. Part of the fun was never knowing exactly what was coming next. Ben Stiller is the star and he also directed it and his sense of humor really comes through.
The plot is about a group of actors making a Vietnam War film epic. They are really bad at it and the first part of the movie had me laughing out loud as it depicted every stereotype that we are used to seeing in war films. But then it goes on. The actors are dropped into the jungle, thinking they are still making the movie. However, there's danger out there - real danger, and they are unwittingly thrown into a serious confrontation with a drug gang that rules the area. This doesn't stop it being funny though.
Robert Downey Jr. is cast as a white actor who dyes his skin to become black for the film. He is so good at it that I really thought he was black until the very end when he takes off his wig and wipes the dye off his face. Ben Stiller and the rest of the cast give really good performances. I loved the concept and the writing is great!
All I can say is a great big hooray for the cast, the crew and everyone connected with this film. I loved it!
Movie Review: ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS PARODY/SATIRE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant film, anchored by strong performances by Ben Stiller as fading action star Tugg Speedman, Jack Black as drug-addled comedy star Jeff Portnoy and especially the strong performance of Robert Downey Jr. as method actor Kirk Lazarus, who actually plays an African-American character named Sergeant Osiris, and stays in character even off set. They are filming the story of Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte) who is not all he seems to be, and is working with a special-effects pyrotechnics guy on the film based on Tayback's book, titled Tropic Thunder. The other two actors, rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) and Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel) are playing different characters as well, but the group of actors gets more than they bargained for when they run into real-life drug runner Vietnamese thugs, led by a child. Speedman is captured by the thugs, which prompts the other actors to mount a rescue operation. Tom Cruise (who is essentially unrecognizable in prosthetic makeup) also co-stars as producer Les Grossman, in a hilarious star turn, as well as Matthew McConaughey as Speedman's agent Rick "Pecker" Peck. This is a hilarious "movie-within-a-movie" which really scores on all fronts. 5 Stars!!!!!!