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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0097363501541
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Dreamworks Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 5.1SpanishDubbedDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
MPN: 350154
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
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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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Rating:  -
I didnt think this movie would be that great when it was being previewed...but then my husband bought it and we watched it together, and it's seriously one of the funniest movies i've seen in a long time. It strays away from the typical comedies, and is unique from any jack black or ben stiller comedy film. You will be suprised at the humor, it's a little shocking at points. I gave it 4 stars due to lots of filthy language, as a mom i had to wait untill the kids were in bed to watch it. other ... Read More
Rating:  -
OK, so I am not a big Ben Stiller fan. As far as I am concerned, the man really cannot act and his films are gross, stupid and exploitative. But Tropic Thunder came recommended from my artsy kid, so I felt obligated to check it out. And glad I am that I did.
I don't ask or much from a film -- original ideas, tight writing, expressive acting, and a minimum of plot holes. Thankfully, craft is written all over this film. Stiller takes deadly aim at the Vietnam movie genre. The deliciously ... Read More
Rating:  -
Ben Stiller's action hero has been suffering from a slump in his career, and audiences are tiring of his many-sequelled SCORCHER franchise, and they didn't go for it when he went all Billy Bob Thornton on them and played SIMPLE JACK as a bid for an Oscar nomination. He is the motive force behind the making of Tropic Thunder, but right away things go awry for a runaway production. Poor Steve Coogan as the beleaguered director is blamed for the slow pace of the filming--they are weeks behind schedule ... Read More
Rating: -
Ben Stiller is the most consistent media celebrity we have today. He often confuses being stupid with being funny, and his movies are mediocre but they are consistently mediocre and after a decade of his consistently mediocre movies ("Zoolander," "Dodgeball," "A Night at the Museum," etc.) we know how to best watch them: after a hard stressful day's work, laying on the living room couch drinking beer.
"Tropic Thunder" is yet another mediocre movie with a formulaic hackneyed storyline, stupid ... Read More
Rating: -
The whole cast was really good. I have watched this DVD probably five times already, and liked it each time. There are not many movies that have replay value like that for me. It is definitely a guy movie, and those seem to be lacking in number these days.
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