Tropic Thunder by Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller, directed by the latter, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, for Robert Downey Jr., at the Golden Globes, both Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise were nominated for the same thing, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – there are thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists waiting for you on my blog (and they will be waiting for ever, without success, I just realized) https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

Tropic Thunder by Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller, directed by the latter, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, for Robert Downey Jr., at the Golden Globes, both Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise were nominated for the same thing, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – there are thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists waiting for you on my blog (and they will be waiting for ever, without success, I just realized) https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

8 out of 10

 

This is a crazy, good, original comedy, a bit over the top at times (or for most of the duration) but in many parts, quite funny, even Tom Cruise https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/09/eyes-wide-shut-by-stanley-kubrick.html has abandoned Ethan Hunt and has an unusual performance, as a fat bold tycoon…

 

Incidentally, I understand that his upcoming role is against type as well…the premise for Tropic Thunder is that a team of thespians are going to the jungle to film a would-be blockbuster, Ben Stiller is Tugg Speedman, an actor who had been through a rough patch, he played a disabled man, but went too far with his rendition

We would have an excellent critique from Kirk Lazarus (I hope I remember well) aka Robert Downey, who looks at Rain Man, Sean Penn’s performance as a man with a challenge, then Forrest Gump https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/03/forrest-gump-by-winston-groom-another.html and how the hero meets Nixon

 

From the start, we are assaulted with jokes, many good ones, and ridiculous situations, some of them happened in real life -after all, they have this Orange Fool as leader, who attacked the pope these last few days, and all allies in general, posted an image of himself as Jesus, and pretended he thought he is a doctor…

On the set, by mistake, the special effects man blows up a whole set of false explosives, costing millions, without the cameras recording…there are fighting scenes that mock the likes of Rambo, and then Tugg Speedman is injured, and is left with no hands, he just as these prosthetics that he moves around, in a sick, hilarious way

 

Kirk Lazarus is meant as another satire, a shot at Method Acting, the quintessential thespian who believes in that is Daniel Day Lewis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/there-will-be-blood-written-and.html the only one to have won three Oscars for leading roles, there are others with three, but not all for leading parts

Steve Coogan is the director of the movie within the movie, and he has this idea to get the team in the jungle and get to some other Method, make them get involved in real action, and use cameras all around to see them at work, except he gets blown up by a real mine, they also have some guerillas, drug smugglers around

 

Some passages are not my cup of tea, Coogan is not a favorite of this cinephile for instance, and I am not a fan of Jack Black, some scenes are on the edge, when it turns out that the drug dealers, who are also guerillas, admire Tugg Speedman it is mirthful for some seconds, but then it gets quite boring, at least for this spectator

 

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