Tropic Thunder Review

Tropic Thunder Review
Daniel Rothman

Tropic Thunder is the rare comedy that combines a hilarious script with phenomenal acting, and it ends up being the funniest movie of the year. Thunder is about the making of what is supposed to be the greatest war movie ever. The A-List cast, including action star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), Oscar-winning Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) and comedic star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black). With the filming of the movie at a disastrous standstill, young director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) decides to take the cast out into the Vietnamese jungle in an attempt to get the actors into their roles. When Cockburn is blown up by a landmine, the cast is left stranded in the jungle, and goes on to fight a Cambodian drug ring.
Tropic Thunder is easily the funniest movie of the year. The movie is nonstop laughs from start to finish, making from of every war movie from Platoon to Apocalypse Now. All the actors are phenomenal, especially Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise, who delivers the greatest performance of his career as the fowl-mouthed producer of the movie. The movie has been a hit with audiences, including Alissa Rothman ’11 who said “Tropic Thunder was very funny. It could be a little crude at times, but I laughed a lot.” It is this well-done humor that makes Tropic Thunder worth watching.

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