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Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder on Release

Directed by: Ben Stiller
Produced by: Stuart Cornfeld, Eric McLeod, Ben Stiller
Written by: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Brandon T. Jackson, Steve Coogan, Nick Nolte, Danny McBride, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise
Music by: Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography: John Toll
Editing by: Greg Hayden
Distributed by: DreamWorks Pictures
Release date: August 13, 2008 (US) September 19, 2008 (UK)
Running time: 107 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $100–150 million
Gross revenue: $91,235,545

Official Website: tropicthunder.com

Synopsis:

Ben Stiller directs and stars in a high-concept action comedy about a film crew struggling against Murphy’s Law during the production of a big-budget war film, and just what happens when the actors become possessed by the bravura of their onscreen counterparts. Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, and Nick Nolte co-star in this DreamWorks production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Reviews:

Tropic Thunder as you see is the funniest movie of the summer, it’s Ben Stiller is muscle-brained action star who, in a big spotlighted for Oscar, and about Jack Black, He just plays a comic actor who has made a fortune out of white collar and most of time he’s farting a lot.
movie is about a gaggle of pampered, self-important Actors who go into the jungle to get a hook at a big budget Vietnam War movie (which will called “Tropic Thunder”) the trial is to face heavily armed drug smugglers and take them out for good.

“Tropic Thunder” is also a movie that worth to be reviews, coz there’s no doubt whose show in it is a big mumble jumbo Ben Stiller. Stiller not only directed it, he co-wrote, coproduced and stars in it. Every frame is stamped with his lifelong obsession to work together with Robert Downey Jr.

Stiller as the director? Mention his name, come out in mind his first image is a pathetic suitor standing in a doorway facing Cameron Diaz with a gob of semen dangling from his ear. The Farrelly brothers’ gross-out classic “There’s Something About Mary” (1998) catapulted Stiller into the pantheon of comic stars. He’s become one of the 10 most highly paid actors in Hollywood, and arguably as one of the most powerful. But the funny thing was, acting stardom was never his real dream.

Back to movie, basic idea behind Tropic Thunder I though of, something like this: war movie is popular by red carpets , most directors and a producer staring big name actors. The problem is the film isn’t going so well, the producer mere in rage, with tons of complain, the actors unable to qualify the expectation and the director got diversion on others. In a desperate attempt to give the movie a gritty realism, the director try to abandon these actors in the middle of the jungle, but unknowingly drops them in the wrong country. And the funny is they think they’re secretly being filmed for the movie, and didn’t notice they were actually in the middle of a fight for their lives.

Tropic Thunder is ridiculous and deeply enjoyable, but describing the characters so baldly removes them from their context, and in comedy, context is everything. Tropic Thunder doesn’t risk simply offending; at times the picture is almost appalling in its tastelessness . it’s a good thing for Tropic Thunder because making us laugh is about the only thing this movie does right.

Tropic Thunder it’s a freaking hilarious and mind-boggling movie, Ben Stiller does a fantastic job of making this movie.