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Pretty Good

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

For the first time I can recall, Tom Cruise attempted to visually get into a character rather than be the Top Gun pretty boy, as it took me a while to be certain it was him as a balding and stocky chap. This movie kicks off with the filming of a big budget war movie. They are over budget and there is strife on the set. So the director and producer decide to take a new approach a toss the actors into a real world war scenario with hidden guerrilla cameras around the area to get an authentic feel. Turns out the actors encounter actual drug maker vigilantes. Will they break character or figure out the other guys with guns aren't actors? Will the movie actually get produced? This is a slapstick satire on many famous war films over the decades yet it only brought me light smirks rather than hefty chortles. Choppy pacing and average gags didn't help it. Overall, it was a fairly unique slapstick movie with effort put forth with the core story yet many characters were annoying or too strange aside from Jack Black who had some crazy and funny scenes.

Ben Stiller is just an awful actor, and in this movie he demonstrates that he is an equally incompetent writer. The movie is unfunny, bland, trite and poorly shot. The story makes no sense, the unraveling of the plot defies credulity, the characters are poorly developed (though they would have NOT been remotely believable even if they were fully developed) and the action sequences are boring. The Hollywood jokes don't even rise to the level of the most hackneyed cliché. Robert Downey, Jr., and Tom Cruise act as if they are cursing themselves for having agreed to do this turkey of a movie. It is truly cruel and unusual punishment to sit through this "Zoolander goes to war" movie. What crime does Mr. Stiller think his audience has committed?

This film is funny, in a sense. The Gay agenda in the opening scenes with Downey and Mcguire completely destroy this film for me. It is disgusting and disturbing. And pushing the anti breeder agenda. This film absolutely has Illuminati depopulation attachments. You are a tool Stiller.

Tropic Thunder follows a group of actors trying to recreate the events of a war in a movie, but ultimately are sent out into a real war, only they think they're still filming a movie. The plot is, as you probably have already noticed, pretty hilarious. Of course, that alone isn't enough to make a funny movie. Tropic Thunder manages to pull that off, thankfully. The beginning of the movie is quite hilarious, and the ending is too. Unfortunately the middle portions weren't as funny, and they were a little confusing and slow at times. I think that that was mostly due to the fact that it wasn't what I expected. Nevertheless, it wasn't horribly boring, and the final act more than makes up for it. The characters are pretty decent. They aren't super deep or anything, but you still get a good idea of who they are, and you feel like there's more to some of them. All the rest are either unimportant or just there to be really goofy. Overall Tropic Thunder is a solid comedy. While it can be a bit slow in the middle, the beginning and end more than make up for it. I'll certainly be seeing this one again, and in the end I'd definitely recommend it.