There's a drug-addicted tubby funny man (Jack Black) who hates himself and a world that won't take him seriously. There's a Beyond Method Aussie actor, a five-time Oscar winner (Robert Downey Jr.) who has undergone "pigment augmentation" (blackface) in order to play, essentially, Ving Rhames. There's the dim-witted action star (Stiller) who still smarts that he's never been good enough to win an Oscar.
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He made a movie about making a movie that no movie-maker should ever have made. Stiller rounded up a cast of A-listers, took them to Hawaii and blew up $90 million worth of stuff. After this, nobody will ever say "Tom Cruise has no sense of humor." After this, the sound of choppers, the slang and the POW camps will just be punch lines. "Tropic Thunder" is Ben Stiller's "Apocalypse Now." After this, nobody will dare make another Vietnam War epic. This is the spectacular spectacle that he will be known for, the movie that all those years spoofing Hollywood, the industry he grew up in and the people who run it, were leading up to. This is the one they put on Ben Stiller's tombstone. 'it's the best things stiller has done in years.Starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. So go, enjoy and have alaugh -Īt Hollywood's expense and no one else's. It's a clever, often hilarious, multilayered study of a fickleīusiness that too often thinks it's doing the world a service. What mayĪppear on the surface as a politically incorrect satire about Hollywood Playing a black guy, will quickly discover Stiller and Co are two stepsĪhead of them and don't mock any of the above anyway. Offended by that, or Downey's brilliant performance as a white guy Oscars? Well, again in context, it is very funny. "retard" in a scene about the kind of roles actors do to win So what about the controversy over the multiple use of the word Seriously, it's the best thing he's done in years.
Tom Cruise, as foul-mouthed studio head Les Grossman. Including Matthew McConaughey, Nick Nolte and a fat-suited, bald-headed He's also packed the film with an inspired supporting cast, Mind you, the majority are probably so self-obsessed, they'll The plot is just an excuse for Stiller, who co-wrote the script, toįire his satirical guns at Hollywood's over-important actors. Problem is the jungle is filled with militia who think the actorsĪre the real deal and life really does start to imitate art. The jungle to shoot the rest of the film guerrilla-style. The production already a month behind schedule after just five days ofįilming, thanks to the bickering egos of the pampered cast, its directorĭamien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) decides to drop troop Beverly Hills in Together they star in Vietnam war movie Tropic Thunder.
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His art to the extreme, such as having his skin surgically darkened to Winning method actor known for his self-righteous dedication of taking Then there's Robert Downey Jnr'sĬontroversial role as Australian actor Kirk Lazarus. InĬontext, the movie flashback is hilarious.Īlow-key Jack Black plays family comedy star and secret heroinĪddict Jeff Portnoy. Glory by playing a special needs kid in a film called Simple Jack. Is fading action hero Tugg Speedman, who tried but failed for Oscar Stiller, also directing for the first time since Zoolander in 2001, Self-important fake actors we'll meet in this movie within a movie. Movie kicks off with hilarious fake trailers featuring the The funniest, sharpest film of the year and his best work in nearly aĭecade, all thanks to the pomposity and vanity of planet Hollywood. Seems all Stiller's pent-up frustration has worked itself into Okay, I admit his movies do great box-office business, but they Realisation he knew what we all knew, that the movie just wasn'tįunny and he didn't want me to judge him on the basis of it? Yeah, Laid back, there for the ride, upīut Stiller seemed to have a big chip on his shoulder. Stiller when I interviewed him with Owen Wilson for the terrible Starsky APA style: WAR IS HELL OF A LAUGH TROPIC THUNDER **** 15 Ben Stiller's new movie takes the mickey out of Hollywood GRANT LAUCHLAN'S MOVIE REVIEWS.WAR IS HELL OF A LAUGH TROPIC THUNDER **** 15 Ben Stiller's new movie takes the mickey out of Hollywood GRANT LAUCHLAN'S MOVIE REVIEWS." Retrieved from ****+15+Ben+Stiller%27s+new.-a0185269176 2008 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday 09 Aug.
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