Tropic ThunderWritten/directed by Ben Stiller (and Justin Theroux)
Tropic Thunder next to Louise Bourgeois...so bizarre, yet so in sync with my eclectic filmic tastes. This popcorn flick was one of the most anticipated of the past two months (blame that on who you would like). The premise (the three biggest stars shooting the worst jungle action movie, come horrible reality show when drug lords take over the film shoot) is pretty funny, especially when you consider Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and Robert Downey Jr. as a black guy..but hilarity really ensures from all the odd cameos...Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise in his best role since Jerry Maguire (if not ever) as Les Grossman, meglomaniac studio executive. Yes, there were many one-jokes, as I call them, carried out to 90 minutes. However, if there are several interweaving one-jokes, it's okay. Like lots of characters interacting, pushing each others' set of traits. Pure situational comedy but nevertheless, entertaining in a teenage boy kind-of-way. You sensed it was going to happen, it does, yet it is still funny because the actors are experts at this kind of humor. Everyone is along for the ride.
Maybe the cinema equivalent of NYC ICY...you know what you are in for when you step in the door. Hell has frozen over.
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