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Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Ben Stiller: Tugg Speedman
Firstly I must say Tropic Thunder achieves exactly what it sets out and strifes to accomplish. What it equals is one of the best American Comedies to come out that tries something new and isn't achingly hard to fathom. This is simple undiluted Black Comedy with crazy action war antics.
''Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.''
Tropic Thunder proceeds to rip the piss out of every Vietnam film in existence, whether it be a nod to Apocalypse Now, with Stiller going abit like Marlon Brando's character, was so amusing.
Or little intricacies like helmets resembling Full Metal Jacket and the Platoon nod with Stiller being shot near the beginning shoot in film.
Vietnam movie mocking aside Tropic Thunder also makes a stab at method actors, Comedians and wanna-be rappers. Not to mention an array of subjects like drugs, race and homosexuality.
''There were times while I was playing Jack where I felt...Retarded.''
The mock trailers at the beginning were very comical indeed focusing on the four main characters and showing ''other'' movies they have under their respective belts.
Jack Black's comedian Jeff Portnoy who is a comic of Nutty Professor proportions with his farting antic film.
Ben Stiller's Tugg Speedman who's the Action star, with a strange baby Sci-fi flick he's seen advertising. Later the pant wetting ''Simple Jack'' AKA Speedman doing retarded.
Robert Downey Jr. as Australian Method Actor Kirk Lazarus, who goes for Awards and becomes so immersed in a role, he stays there. Taking the piss out of all Method Actors in the field to boot out there. Thoughts possibly aimed at Forest Whitaker or Daniel Day Lewis with mad glee. Robert playing an Aussie playing a Black dude, it's priceless...
Brandon T. Jackson as the funnily named Alpa Chino(Where's De Niro tho! haha!), the rapper turned actor, who hides a riot of a secret regarding his sexuality.
''Now I want you to take a step back... and literally fuck your own face!''
Tropic Thunder has more appearances by random actors that its hard to mention them all. Faces like Nick Nolte, Danny R. McBride(Pineapple Express - obviously into comedies), Steve Coogan and Matthew McConaughey all pop up.
But the one that really tops it off, which even rivals Robert Downey Jr's transformation is that of Tom Cruise as Les Grossman. IT actually took me five minutes to register that it was in fact him. The main funder of Damien Cockburn's (Coogan -Wait till you see what happens to him! Laugh your head off!) film and a no shit taking corporate man. Cruise doing his lines and dancing, not to mention hair everywhere except on the top of his head is so funny, it Hurts...
I mean you get to the credits and your face is blowing more blood vessels because the chaos and laughs haven't stopped.
Tropic thunder rips the mickey out of everything and anything....
But it's so damn funny you wont mind unless of course you do, but in that case you may have missed the point.
A grand effort from Director and Star Ben Stiller and Thunder has a killer soundtrack to boot.
Can I see Tom Cruise dancing at the end again? Quality!
8/10
