The movie follows a group of prima donna actors who are making a fictional Vietnam War film. When their frustrated director decides to drop them in the middle of a jungle, they are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
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June 27, 2016
More exhausting than funny, though it is often both, Ben Stiller's latest excoriation of ego wears you down with its smothering, pop-savvy cynicism.
October 18, 2008
Cruise and particularly Downey are something to behold: They give this Thunder its lightning.
September 19, 2008
But its better moments of self-referential snark, such as an ace cameo from Tom Cruise as an obnoxious studio exec, have the feel of a superior end-of-term revue.
October 18, 2008
Though some of the caricatures wear thin, some of the acting rises to a high level.
September 18, 2008
For years now, onscreen and off, [Tom] Cruise has seemed like a bottle of barely contained crazy; now we know what happens when the cork comes out.
October 14, 2012
Tropic Thunder is an easy film to enjoy. It appeals to the basest levels of humour without patronising its audience, while pricking the pomposity of the movie industry without going too 'meta' - this is far from self-fellation.
August 10, 2012
perfectly parodies the 'kill everything in sight and then blow it up for good measure' summer movie mentality.
October 21, 2014
Tropic Thunder is probably the best war-movie spoof of all time, playing around with all those cliches and conventions we've seen a million times before.
January 10, 2015
Tropic Thunder pushes more buttons than most comedies dare.
October 18, 2008
Tiptoes to the fine line between irony and insight and blows it to smithereens. It's hilarious.
August 18, 2008
Some of it is very funny, some of it is too broad.
