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 Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
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"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" (David Ansen: Newsweek)
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"Tropic Thunder undeniably provokes quite a few laughs, but of the most hollow kind." (Todd McCarthy: Variety)
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"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: ***1/2 (out of four)." (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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US release date: august 15th, 2008.
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