Best Comedy of the Year
Tropic Thunder
A 2008 American action comedy film produced and directed by Ben Stiller and written by Stiller, Justin Theroux, and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film when their fed-up writer and director decide to abandon them in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle, forcing them to fight their way out. Tropic met controversy among the disability advocacy community prior to its release in the United States on August 13, 2008. It received generally good reviews with 83% of reviews positive and an average normalized score of 71% according to the review aggregator websites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, respectively. It earned $26 million in its opening weekend and retained the number-one position for its first three consecutive weekends of release. The film went on to gross more than $180 million worldwide. Prior to the film a faux commercial and several faux trailers are shown, in a similar matter to those shown prior to the 2007 film Grindhouse. The commercial depicts fictional rapper Alpa Chino promoting his two brands: the “Booty Sweat” energy drink and “Bust-A-Nut” candy bar. The first trailer shows Tugg Speedman’s latest film, Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown, a violent action-adventure film. Another trailer is for Jeff Portnoy’s film, The Fatties: Fart 2, which spoofs Eddie Murphy’s portrayal of multiple characters such as in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The final trailer, entitled Satan’s Alley, features Kirk Lazarus and Tobey Maguire (cameoing as himself) as two gay priests at an eighteenth-century monastery, parodies films like Brokeback Mountain and Wonder Boys.
I really laughed so hard that i almost cried while watching the movie. It was really funny specially on the faux trailers about “Satan’s Alley”. They even put an effort to make websites for those trailers as if they were going to make those movies. Also, i did not realize that it was Tom Cruise who was acting as Les Grossman, he really changed his whole image. All in all, this is a must watch film. Two thumbs up!.
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