Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder
by Ben Stiller

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Actor: Anthony Ruivivar, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Jeff Kahn, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Ben Stiller
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Ben Stiller
Writer: Ben Stiller
Producer: Brian Taylor
Producer: Eric McLeod
Producer: Justin Theroux
Writer: Justin Theroux
Writer: Etan Cohen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dreamworks Video

DVD Reviews of Tropic Thunder

DVD Review: My favorite movie of the year
Summary: 5 Stars

Tropic Thunder (single-disc version) is the one movie I saw in theaters 2008 and bought as a DVD and have watched over and over again. The movie within a movie and actors playing roles within roles is thoughtful humor by actor/comedians who are in their own right already hilarious, often poking fun at their own genuine Hollywood predicaments. While the dialogue is laden with crass metaphor, there is also a synergy in the film bringing out the best in the cast. According to the commentary much of what ended up in the movie is improvised and at times the script was worked out onset by the actors. I personally think this film is a masterpiece. Also, filmed in Kauai it is visually stunning.

I also bought the Tropic Thunder (Unrated Director's Cut) (director's cut). Ben Stiller states in the commentary that it was created to let viewers see what was deleted, not specifically the cut of choice by the director as the title implies. According to the commentary he thinks the theatrical released version works much better as a film. I agree.

DVD Review: Very Funny at Parts, Very Crude at Parts
Summary: 3 Stars

I admit it... I was overly curious and purchased this film for $20 before having seen it. Do I regret this? Halfway... Although, I'm kind of glad I bought it.

First of all, I'm a huge fan of ALL of the leads and I thought they all did awesome jobs. Secondly, some of the scenes in this movie are SIDE-SPLITTING hilarious. As far as parody flicks go, this is one of the champions. What's not to love?

Well... There is quite a bit not to love I'm afraid. First of all, this movie is a bit unbalanced. The first half is hilarious but the second half gets a little choked in the girth of it's own plot. Also, the film has a couple EXTREMELY crude scenes. (For example, the scene where they tie Jack Black to a tree has some of the most offensive dialogue I've ever heard in a film... Sheesh.) Besides a couple of scenes, the vulgarity is pretty usual (what you'd expect from a movie like this) so... there you go.

I'm not going to sit here and say that I went into this film expecting "Night at The Museum" and was shocked and horrified by it... It's rated R and rightfully so. For the most part, this is a fun and entertaining film with lots of great laughs and some wonderful performances. Sadly the other 25% of the film relies on shock value humor and sheer number of profanities.

DVD Review: A new classic...
Summary: 4 Stars

First off, this movie is hilarious... Robert Downey Jr is top-notch and the way they skewer Hollywood is simply fantastic. The one thing that bothers me aout this film is it actually made me start liking Tom Cruise again! Nooooooo!!! lol Ben Stiller's character is basically making fun of Tom Cruise, RDJr's is lampooning Russel Crowe, Jack Black is sending up Andy Dick and I wasn't sure who the other two were lampooning as much (Maybe Ludacris?) but it doesn't matter because the movie was great.

The Blu-Ray release is exceptional in it's crisp, bright colors. There are no artifacts or jittery frames, the audio is excellent as well and all aroudn a great purchase!

DVD Review: Frickin' Funny
Summary: 4 Stars

I LOVED THE PARODIES, AND THAT EXCURSION INTO THE FACE OFF BETWEEN DOWNEY AND STILLER IN THE EXTRAS IS A VERY GOOD CHARACTER ACTORS PORTRAIT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FORTITUDE.

DVD Review: Really VERY Funny!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Really this was quite a funny movie. I'm not really a fan of Jerry Stiller, and I'm old enough to remember his parents comedy antics. But, this was FUNNY beyond belief. Watch until you see Tom Cruise's transformation in the film. You'll feel bad for Katie Holmes if he actually turns out like that!!! Watch the DVD you'll laugh your butt off!!!

Description of Tropic Thunder

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R

It's not really a knock to say that nothing in Tropic Thunder is funnier than its first five minutes, so sly that--especially for people watching in theaters--you don't realize right away they are the opening minutes of the movie. This outrageous comedy begins with a series of fake previews, each introducing one of the main characters in the film-proper (not that there's anything proper about this film) and each bearing the familiar logo of a different motion picture studio: Universal, DreamWorks SKG, et al. Such playing fast and loose with corporate talismans verges on sacrilege, but it's an index of how much le tout Tinseltown endorses the movie as a demented valentine to itself. The premise is that the cast of a would-be "Son of Rambo" movie shooting in some Southeast Asian jungle get into a real shooting war with drug-smuggling montagnards. Don't ask--though the movie does have an answer--why such highly paid, usually ultra-pampered personnel as superhero Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), Mozart of fart comedy Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), hip-hop artist Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and five-time Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus from Aus-try-leeah (Robert Downey Jr.) should be running through the jungle unattended and very vulnerable. It matters only that the real-life cast has a high time kidding their own profession and flexing their comedic muscles. Bonus points go to Stiller for co-writing the script (with Justin Theroux) and directing, and to Downey, brilliant as a white actor surgically turned black actor for his role and utterly committed to staying in character no matter what ("I don't drop character till I done the DVD commentary").

Be warned: The movie, too, is committed--to being an equal-opportunity offender. Its political incorrectness extends not only to Lazarus's black-like-me posturing but also Speedman's recent, Sean Penn-style Oscar bid playing a cognitively challenged farmboy--or, in Lazarus's deathless phrase, "going the full retard." Others in the cast include Steve Coogan as a director out of his depth, Nick Nolte as the Viet-vet novelist whose book inspired the film-within-the-film, Matthew McConaughey as Speedman's sun-blissed agent back home, and Tom Cruise--bald, fat-suited, and profane--as an epically repulsive studio head. Two hours running time is a mite excessive, but otherwise, what's not to like? --Richard T. Jameson

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