TROPIC THUNDER

A group of highly-paid actors are making a war movie based in Vietnam honoring a veteran's written tale. After millions of dollars wasted on explosions not even filmed and actors not being able to complete scenes, the director agrees to secretly bring the actors to the real tropics of Vietnam in hopes of getting them to really play their roles. Miscommunication leads them to a real battle zone controlled by drug lords, yet they continue "acting" clueless to the dangers that lie ahead and around them. When star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is captured by drug lords, can his co-stars and agent save him from a life of slave-acting?
STARRING: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. , Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise

Lindsay Says:
There were some really funny parts in this movie,and definitely look out for Tom Cruise's surprising character. Overall, it was just okay. Not the best comedy I've seen Ben Stiller in and the rating was lowered when I realized that besides Cruise's amazing ghetto-fabulous dancing and my own appreciation for Matthew McConaughey, the spoof trailers at the beginning amused me more than the movie itself did.

Tracy says:
It's a Ben Stiller movie for sure, but not one of his best. The supporting roles were wasted - 'black' Robert Downey Jr. aside, they just weren't funny. Jack Black was a drug addict...I don't even know how the others were trying to be funny. Tom Cruise was amazing in his unrecognizablity, and his dance scene was probably the best moment in the film. That he's in the movie at all is almost a plot point we shouldn't have given away; now that you know it might not be worth going to the theater at all. Rent it!

Overall Rating: ♫♫♫♫♫ (5 notes)