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TROPIC THUNDER is one of the craziest most hilarious comedy movies out there that will make you laugh and cry from laughing too hard. If you don’t dig silly, over the top scenes ala SNL sketches then you probably… would find this movie very annoying because frankly, it has that element and so much more. This is a comedy with a bang! Explosives and uproarious! Writer/director Ben Stiller and his fellow screenwriter Justin Theroux have made the awesome finale to the 2008 Summer movie season.

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 biggest war film ever. After ballooning costs (and the out of control egos of the pampered cast) threaten to shut down the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast deep into the jungles of Southeast Asia for “increased realism,” where they inadvertently encounter real bad guys.

The story is simple and ridiculous but I don’t mind.
It centers around a bunch of actors with personal issues who now must face actual trained enemies.
None of them have a career with good reputation in the eyes of the public and yet they think they’re all that. They make a living out of pretending and in real life, the act continues.

This real battle in the jungle will bring out the hero in them, no matter how outrageous the process and the outcome will be.
To a certain extent, it’s a spoof on Francis Ford Coppola’s classic tale Apocalypse Now. Let’s just say that TROPIC THUNDER makes its own version and blows it up to the third degree with CG, props and pyrotechnic.

It’s a good thing Ben Stiller has so many A-list friends who are willing to appear in this movie even for a cameo.
The cast are people who know comedy by heart. From Jack Black, Steve Coogan to Bill Hader and Matthew McConaughey
The surprise show stopper is Tom Cruise as the bad-tempered bald fat producer. Say what you want about the guy, but you would not wanna piss him off. Tom Cruise knows how to cuss up a storm and he looks hella funny when dancing to hip-hop music.

If The Dark Knight has Heath Ledger’s Joker great performance. Then TROPIC THUNDER can proudly claim Robert Downey Jr as its champ. His role as the Platoon’s African American sergeant is priceless. You have never seen him like this. His accent and mannerism might be exaggerated a little, but he does not sound like Robert Downey Jr. at all. He’s got the slank down and his looks will forever crack me up. What a talented actor.

This movie is not for those of you who are looking for clever comedy. Nope, this is for those of us who from time to time don’t mind comedy who target audiences with short attention span. This movie’s humor only works for those of us who just wanna sit back and enjoy some major kickass entertainment. “Mother Nature just Pissed her Pants Suit!”

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