August 31st, 2008
Tropic Thunder Review



Tropic Thunder

Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jnr, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan, Tom Cruise
Directed by Ben Stiller

This movie is ridiculous. Which isn’t to say it’s not also hilarious. More that its layer upon spoof-layer upon insidery spoof-layer joke-within-joke, does becomes a little exhausting at points along the way. It’s way meta, dude. Like when if ever you were a kid and you made a cake with your friends, you wanted to make what was clearly the Most Mind-Blowing, Most Badass Tasting Cake Ever. So into the chocolate mix goes M&Ms, and maybe a melted Mars Bar. Okay, I see what you’re doing. And what about a whole bag of those chewy little cars? Ah, Okay. And also, an entire block of chocolate. And then, we’ll melt caramel over the whole things once we’ve done the icing. Voila!

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