It's not really a knock to say that nothing inTropic Thunderis funnier than its first five ... more
minutes, so sly that--especially for people watching in theaters--you don't realise right away they are the opening minutes of the movie. This outrageous comedy ...
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comedy Tropic Thunder. When three of Hollywood's biggest stars head into the jungle of Vietnam to shoot a war movie, they have no idea how real things can get.
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Advantages: Funny, Great trailers at the start Disadvantages: Does drag a bit
"TropicThunder" is Ben Stiller's first film as director since 2001's Zoolander, which this film does share some similarities. It stars himself, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black as different kinds of fictitious actors working on a war film called "TropicThunder", and all for different reasons.
Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) is a Australian actor with a short temper (wonder who that's based on?) and is known as a very serious, method actor. He's already won 5 academy awards and really likes to immerse himself in a role. In TropicThunder, he has his skin dyed dark to play the role of Osiris, the platoons black Sergeant.
Jack Black is a comedy actor named Jeff "Fatty" Portnoy who is mainly known for his "The Fatties" films, which are basically just non-stop farting for 90 mins. He takes on this role to try and be seen as a serious ...
Advantages: Good film with excellent special effects Disadvantages: none
good and evil, but with cutting edge special effects and action scenes galore this is a great film to watch.
The blu-ray version i watched was a 2 disc set with the second disc full of extras. There was a section on the history of transformers, and interviews with executive producers Steven Spielberg and Brian Goldner, writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, and director Michael Bay. There were also features on the animation used and the way they worked out where to do scenes. You also get a look at the military equipment seen and used in the film.
This additional information is something you do not want to skip over, because it gives you a much deeper understanding of how much planning and work went into the final production. If you are into cutting edge special effects and head banging action then beg, borrow, rent, or if that fails buy ...
Advantages: Razor sharp satire, politically spot-on and oh yeah, hilarious. Disadvantages: But maybe not always as hilarious as it could be...
TropicThunder, the latest directorial offering from co-writer / star Ben Stiller, is a war movie lampoon / Hollywood satire that serves almost as an elaborate punch line to set-up's established in his earlier Zoolander and the grossly underrated The Cable Guy.
Like those pictures, it delights in tearing asunder self-important celebrities, artless artistes and the conventions of popular cinema, tasks it nails by enlisting an array of beautifully-written grotesques and caricatures and a store of hilariously foul-mouthed dialogue pitched somewhere between David Mamet and Kevin Smith.
The plot concerns the production of an epic war movie - the TropicThunder of the title - based on a book by Vietnam veteran Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), a character clearly based to some extent on Ron Kovic, himself memorably portrayed by Tom Cruise ...
Contains strong language, sex references and comic bloody violence
Video Category
Feature Film
Country Of Origin
United States of America
Plot
A desperate director trying to make a Vietnam war movie drops his three pampered actors into the heart of the jungle. What they fail to realise, however, is that the scenarios they find themselves in are very real and not part of the movie!
Release details
DVD Region
Blu-ray
Studio(s)
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Bonus digital copy disc, Cast commentary , Featurettes , Make-up test with Tom Cruise , Full Mags, RAIN OF MADNESS trailer, MTV Movie Awards: TROPIC THUNDER, Filmmaker commentary , Additional featurettes , RAIN OF MADNESS mockumentary , Dispatches from the Edge of Madness (streamed via BD live), Deleted scenes, Extended sequences , Alternative ending, More Full Mags (streamed via BD live), Video rehearsals
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround Sound
Professional reviews
Review
Hilarious (Daily Star, 23/01/2009)
A broad action comedy that manages to mix subtlety with satire (Hollywood Reporter, 23/01/2009)
Brilliant – great entertainment (Sunday Mirror, 23/10/2008)
A parody of war movies and a pinprick in the helium balloon of Hollywood egos (Time Magazine, 23/01/2009)
Brilliant (Uncut, 23/10/2008)
DVD Description
When box office champ Ben Stiller's comedic performances aren't a variation on a soft-spoken, put-upon everyman with an eventual fuse, he's usually playing a full-blown absurdist monster with an apoplectic Napoleon complex. These bizarre creations usually adorn films in which the funnyman provides the supporting work (DODGEBALL, HEAVYWEIGHTS), but, whenever he's directing, he's free to build an entire filmic universe around his asinine, ludicrously funny, culture-skewering characters and premises. His ZOOLANDER (2001) bit at the entertainment industry with silly abandon, but Stiller has firmly set TROPIC THUNDER within the realm of sophisticated Hollywood satire. In it, a desperate director named Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) trying to make a Vietnam war movie drops his pampered actors into the heart of the jungle. Cockburn's stars include Stiller as an action hero who's starting to make bad career choices, Jack Black as an insecure low-brow comedy star going through heroin withdrawals, and Robert Downey Jr. as an Australian Oscar winner so lost in his 'craft' he underwent a procedure to become black for his role. In the jungle, they remain under the delusion that they are still being filmed even after they encounter a dangerous gang of drug lords. The film's basic premise has popped up several times since Hollywood's 1970s golden age in films such as THREE AMIGOS! and GALAXY QUEST. Where those films simply blanketed a classic Overconfident Bumbling Idiot comedy showcase with a pop culture lexicon, however, TROPIC THUNDER could have only been made, as on-the-nose at is, by people who have been working in the Hollywood system for years, making cutting observations along the way. Simply put, this raucous satire knows big-budget filmmaking, the delusional narcissism of actors, and even the good points of those actors--perhaps why they're celebrated--like the back of its hand.
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