Movie Dude: Tropic Thunder

Bulletin:

Tropic Thunder is a work of genius all around! A satire with so much great acting,it had me in stitches! From the opening sequence,we  see the trailers of all of all the actors in the movie,PHONY TRAILERS! The all so proud actors and their respective collection of work leading them to this Vietnam action pic. It is written by Four Leaf Taggert,a POW vetern who lost both his hands,played by the ever charismatic Nick Nolte, is soon to be seen into a movie. But 5 days into shooting,they are 50 million in the hole! The producer,played byTom Cruise as a hirsute ,balding caricature of himself,is so funny that I laughed so hard I was out of breath! As the head of the studio,with a Runyonesque name of Les Grosseman he barks out orders as sycophants surround him in his studio. Ben Stiller (buffed out) is terrific as the actor who is worth more dead then alive,plays Tuggman, a man on the edge of the abyss of his career. Stiller has directed a comedy worth many views over as he allows ALL the actors to go over the top in their performance! A -list actors have cameos through out the movie and it is just a riot as twists and turn happen in a predictable way that satisfies the movie and the audience. Jack Black,plays an actor who is so strung out,he is constantly high…Robert Downey Jr,is an actor so method,who won 5 Oscars,that he undergoes a drastic operation to make himself black! As typical,most actors have neurotic issues and they blown way out for this movie! They are just terrific as are all the cast..Stiller really has done a bang up job with all his crew. If I was being paid for writing this,you would have detail after detail,but this is what you get for free…GO SEE THE MOVIE!