Ben Stiller Stars and Directs “Tropic Thunder”

By Rebecca Brody
16:08, August 4th 2008
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Ben Stiller Stars and Directs “Tropic Thunder”

In the midst of a movie season full of action blockbusters, Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” comes to quench our thirst for a mild comedy, offering moviegoers not only a good laugh, but also an outstanding cast.

The comedy is the perfect candidate for a summer success. Ben Stiller is director, co-writer, co-producer and star of the movie and, besides him, the stupendous cast list includes Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan, Nick Nolte and Tobey Maguire, not to mention Tom Cruise, impersonating a crude studio chief.

The movie is about a throng of mollycoddled, overconfident Hollywood wannabe-stars who go into the jungle to film a high-budget Vietnam War movie, entitled “Tropic Thunder”. However, they get in real trouble when heavily armed drug dealers emerge and the actors find themselves in the middle of a non-fictional fight. Moreover, the hilarity comes from the fact that the so-called artists think the attacks coming from the jungle drug lord’s army are just cinematic special effects.

In the film opening August 13, Stiller plays an action star who lacks intelligence more than anything. Jack Black walks in the shoes of a clownish humorist and Robert Downey Jr. poses as an esteemed Australian who surgically dyes his skin black in order to play an African-American solider.

The four “Thunder” attention-seekers, Ben Stiller’s Speedman, Robert Downey Jr.’s Lazarus, Jack Black’s Portnoy and Brandon Jackson’s Alpa Chino, together with the panic-stricken novice Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), are sent into the jungle by the production’s frantic and hysterical British director (Steve Coogan). Speedman is abducted by the Red Dragon Army, whose 12-year-old boss turns out to be an admirer of one of Speedman’s dodgiest movies. The adventures go on and on and so do the laughs.

“Tropic Thunder” may be considered one of the most humorous films of the season and should not be missed if you’re in the look for a good, yet controversial comedy.



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