Tropic Thunder (Unrated Director's Cut + BD Live) [Blu-ray] (B001H5X7KC)

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Tropic Thunder (Unrated Director's Cut + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan
Directed by: Ben Stiller
Binding: Blu-ray
Published: 2008-11-18

$19.09

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Tropic Thunder (Unrated Director's Cut + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Editorial Review:

TROPIC THUNDER (BR/WS/UNRATED DIRECTORS CUT)
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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Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Diverse responses reflect movie culture:

Greatest movie ever!!
Worst movie ever!!
These responses reflect the cultural and artistic divide we have in the US.(So do the Grammys!) As an "old fart"who loves action movies, I have to say that I made a big mistake in purchasing this incomprehensible piece of trash(Makes Steven Seagal films look like David Lean classics!). That aside, I am a fan of Downey, Nolte etc: and can't see why they would even consent to do this tripe.
Gross. Offensive. Vulgar. Meaningless.
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Hilarious:

The movie is hilarious. I highly recommend it to anyone is a fan of any of the actors involved. Ben Stiller is a genius! (The reviewer was compensated for posting this review. However, the opinion stated in the review is that of the reviewer and the reviewer alone. Further, the reviewer independently selected this product to review and has no affiliation with the product maker/distributor, Amazon or the review requester.)

Silly, rollicking, politically incorrect, good-time entertainment:

No one can beat Ben Stiller at this kind of mock-heroic story. The plot involves around a very contrived situation: a group of actors making a war movie overseas are dropped deep into the jungle, where they will improvise action sequences for hidden cameras. But when the director is accidentally killed, the actors convince themselves its all part of their motivation, even when they run afoul of a village full of ruthless drug producers. Much of the comic tension in the story comes from the actors' failing... more info

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