Younger and less accomplished are Alpa Chino (Brandon T. His belief in the craft has prompted him to undergo skin color treatment to portray the outfit's African American sergeant. Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) is a 5-time Oscar-winning Australian method actor. Leaping out of his comfort zone, hefty comedian Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) reminds one of Chris Farley, had he lived to tread down Eddie Murphy's career path with nothing but fat and fart jokes. Claiming the lead role of "Four Leaf" Tayback, Tugg Speedman (Stiller) is a fading action star whose signature Scorcher franchise has been milked beyond dry. The central unit of the movie-within-a-movie is portrayed by a diverse lot of talent. It's an appropriate starting place, as the inevitable prelude to a theatrical exhibition becomes the first of countless movie industry aspects uproariously sent up here. Stiller's movie introduces its colorful characters in a most creative way, with a fake commercial and three fake trailers. The concept worked well in those comedies, and it does so again here, adding war to the western and sci-fi contexts successfully tested. Actors facing danger unwittingly have been seen in ¡Three Amigos! and Galaxy Quest. Tropic Thunder's premise isn't entirely original. Unsupervised, the pampered performers initially assume they're still on script and the threat is staged. There to salvage the costly, behind-schedule production with guerilla-style filming, they instead run into a violent drug gang. In this film, a group of movie actors making a serious, true to life Vietnam War drama end up in uncharted territories of Vietnamese jungle. With Tropic Thunder, a big budget action-comedy that he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. Jackson (Alpa Chino), Bill Hader (Rob Slolom), Brandon Soo Hoo (Tran), Reggie Lee (Byong), Trieu Tran (Tru), Matthew McConaughey (Rick Peck), Tom Cruise (Les Grossman)īuy Tropic Thunder from : 2-Disc Director's Cut DVD īen Stiller followed up The Heartbreak Kid, the most unexpected and documented flop of his 21st century movie stardom, (Kirk Lazarus), Nick Nolte (Four Leaf Tayback), Steve Coogan (Damien Cockburn), Jay Baruchel (Kevin Sandusky), Danny McBride (Cody), Brandon T. And be prepared for Cruise, who plays the most radical role of his entire career.Theatrical Release: Aug/ Running Time: 121 Minutes (Director's Cut) / Rating: Unrated (Theatrical Cut: R)ĭirector: Ben Stiller / Writers: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux (story & screenplay) Etan Cohen (screenplay)Ĭast: Ben Stiller (Tugg Speedman), Jack Black (Jeff Portnoy), Robert Downey Jr. which do not even deserve to be called "spoofs". A spoof of war films that isn't tireless or idiotic like the recent Epic/Date films. What's refreshing about Thunder is that it's actually original in certain aspects of the storyline such as when they decide to shoot the film guerilla style in the jungle only to have the director of the film.- I'll leave this at that. I can't say I've ever seen any character like his in a film of this genre, which already I feel will enter the classics. Who I wholeheartedly feel - stole the show. While most of the humor was "funny-but-i'm-not-laughing" the same amount of laugh out loud humor and gags was provided as well, courtesy of mostly Stiller and Downey Jr. Beginning with trailers a la Grindhouse for every major character was already a sign of a hilarious film. A relentless hard R comedy that fuses elements of practically every famous war film ever made. A comedy that is not Apatow's is refreshing nowadays. Saw this at the Washington, DC screening on the 10th.
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