- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Aug 13, 2008
- Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.
- Summary:
- Director: Ben Stiller
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 39
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Mixed: 9 out of 39
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Negative: 0 out of 39
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100The movie is laugh-until-your-stomach-hurts hilarious.
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80The history of filmmakers skewering Hollywood's darker excesses is a long and rich one, from Billy Wilder through Robert Altman. With Tropic Thunder, a rude, crude, over-the-top satire about rude, crude, over-the-top action movies, Ben Stiller makes an ambitious and surprisingly effective bid to join those vaunted ranks.
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80Stiller manages his movie nicely so that all actors get their share of the comic spotlight. Seldom does an ensemble comedy not contain a single weak character or performance as does this one.
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60There are moments of comedy grandeur, but this isn't as consistently funny as you'd hope. Nevertheless, Downey Jr.'s Kirk Lazarus is instantly up there with the comedy greats.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 113 out of 169
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Mixed: 15 out of 169
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Negative: 41 out of 169
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