Good lord, this movie is hilarious and epic. The characters with their own insecurities being thrown into the most random and dumb situations ever is just so funny. The dialogue had me and my dad crying in front of the TV. Anybody who likes comedies or war movies, check this one out!

Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I contact Tropic Thunder (2008)Plot In A Paragraph: Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.The spoof trailers and ads which take up the first 10 mins set the tone for what is to follow, its crude, low brow humour, but I for one find it a very movie. An Oscar nominated Robert Downey Jr steals every scene he is in!! He is brilliant as method actor Kirk Lazarus, an actor so commuted he does not come out of character until he has done the DVD commentary, and thinks nothing of having skin augmentation for a role!! Ben Stiller (allegedly loosely basing his character on Sly Stallone) is fun, normally I find most of his characters the same, but I like him here. Jack Black is perfectly cast and gets some great one liners. Then on to Tom Cruise, who after a very public kicking from all quarters, he reminds everyone why they like him, with an over the top, energetic and totally off the wall performance that was rightly nominated for a Golden Globe (his last nomination to date) I'm still waiting for the Les Grossman solo movie. Tropic Thunder grossed $110 million at the domestic box office to end 2008 the 25th highest grossing movie of the year.

This is hands down Ben Stiller's best movie. It has great action, great dialogue, great acting, great music and great humor. This movie is filled with quotable lines and works very well. The performances I have to single out for praise are Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jay Baruchel, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Cruise. I feel like this movie approaches it's themes in a way similar to Blazing Saddles but Blazing Saddles has a lot more slapstick. The Tugg Speedman character is not as memorable as Derek Zoolander but this movie is far better than Zoolander is. This is my favorite Ben Stiller movie alongside Meet The Fockers, Zoolander, Starsky and Hutch, and Night At The Museum 1 and 3 but I still haven't seen There's Something About Mary. I honestly prefer Robert Downey Jr as Kirk Lazuras over him as Iron Man but they are both fantastic performances. Tom Cruise is awesome as Less Grossman. He owns his character that is very different from everything else he has done. I hope Ben Stiller is proud of this movie because to me this is his best one.

Ben Stiller is just an awful actor, and in this movie he demonstrates that he is an equally incompetent writer. The movie is unfunny, bland, trite and poorly shot. The story makes no sense, the unraveling of the plot defies credulity, the characters are poorly developed (though they would have NOT been remotely believable even if they were fully developed) and the action sequences are boring. The Hollywood jokes don't even rise to the level of the most hackneyed cliché. Robert Downey, Jr., and Tom Cruise act as if they are cursing themselves for having agreed to do this turkey of a movie. It is truly cruel and unusual punishment to sit through this "Zoolander goes to war" movie. What crime does Mr. Stiller think his audience has committed?