Tropic Thunder

2008 • 106 minutes

About this movie

Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in "Tropic Thunder," an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they enoucter real bad guys.

Ratings and reviews

This has everything for me: The goofy spoof previews at the beginning, the wide range of zany characters interwoven by pure chaos, the brutally honest satire picking apart the silly things about Hollywood that you somehow have to love, and a bald Tom Cruise raging out of control cursing up a storm while Robert Downey Jr. gets away with "sort of racist but not really" humor the whole way. This movie is so funny that I can't even pretend to laugh at regular comedy anymore.

It takes a certain type of humor to find this funny. If you think anything along the lines of fart jokes and swearing is offensive, this movie is DEFINITELY not for you. I first watched it when I was 15 years old and found it disgusting. I'm now 21 and I was laughing the entire way through. Once again, Downey puts on an excellent performance as an Australian playing a black man. Ben Stiller and Jack Black are...well... Ben Stiller and Jack Black. Funny, disgusting, and outrageous!

This piece of crap didn't even make me grin or smile. I only smiled one the movie was over. I was forced to stay because I went to the movie theater with friends. They all thought this sucked too. I usually like Jack Black but this was a dud.