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Tropic Thunder - Single Disc [DVD] [2008] |
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Staring:
Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel
Director:
Ben Stiller
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.26
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 realise 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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 The Best Film EVER!, 2010-07-14
Just speechless. I've seen this movie 48 times now. I'm still not bored of it! I plan on reaching 100! YOU HAVE to watch this film!
 Dreadful, 2010-05-05
So much talent
but so much wasted
including wasting my time last night !!!
a DVD to avoid
 Worth seeing - I laughed..... a lot!, 2010-08-24
I saw this film last night. Having seen most of the mixed (Mainly negative reviews) about it I tried not to set my hopes to high, despite being a big Ben Stiller fan. I enjoyed it and I don't really get what all the fuss is about, a lot of these review strike me as a bit harsh. Perhaps it isn't a classic like Zoolander, But it is a good "Stiller" Comedy, completely ridiculous and full of good ideas and characters. I found myself laughing out loud a lot, Stiller's character and Downey Jr's stole the show. True some characters were weaker than others. Yes, there is a lot of explicit, over the top swearing,(so not one for the minors) which can become a bit tiring (Especially with Tom Cruises character).
It will be hard for anyone looking at these reviews to choose weather to get it or not. On reading these I wouldn't have. Having seen the film, yeah I'd splash out on the 5 bob and get it. Try it and see, it had me in hysterics, there are so many good gags!
HILARIOUS!, 2010-06-07
The film is about a bunch of famous actors who screw-up on their last movie, so have to make another... IN VIETNAM! I thought the film was very funny and enjoyable, but sometimes, especially at the start, it seemed to drag on a little bit.
Overall, the acting is great and the film is very funny, but you may get bored at the start.
4/5
Please don't make me watch it again., 2010-07-02
I bought this film as soon as it appeared on DVD using a gift voucher somebody had given me for my birthday...... I would have had more fun ripping up the voucher, shoving it down my pants and setting fire to it. I enjoy most of the films these actors appear in, but this film was dreadful. Am I too old fo this childishness?
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Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5051188156138
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2009-01-26
Running Time: 102
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2008 |
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