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Tropic Thunder

2008

Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson ...

5.5

42,352

Comedy. War. Action Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar®-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"'Tropic Thunder' is the funniest movie of the summer—so funny, in fact, that you start laughing before the film itself has begun (...) Downey is astonishing"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'Tropic Thunder' undeniably provokes quite a few laughs, but of the most hollow kind."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Robert Downey Jr. is not merely funny but also very good and sometimes even subtle (...) [It is] considerably better than Stiller’s previous film (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly (...) We enter this bizarro fun house giggling at the clowns on view, but we exit — and here's the wow factor — laughing at ourselves (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"A lively, layered comedy packed with cheap but hilarious goofs on Hollywood"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Tropic Thunder' isn't a masterpiece, but it is supremely effective entertainment (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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