Expensive

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2013)

It's obvious that "Tropic Thunder" was made by a marketing committee. It is a large Ben Stiller comic vehicle. This one is better than most, as is usual when Ben Stiller's name is allowed on the directors chair. I still think it would be funnier just to maybe turn the camera on and watch Ben Stiller have sex or talk to his mom. I'm sure this movie cost a lot to make.
The first time I saw this movie in theaters I cried laughing at Jack Black's fake trailer. As the years go by the movie stays as a well-paced and edited execution. It's more watchable than the average movie by far, and all the sentimentality of a typical Ben Stiller vehicle is there but it's so well-placed it seems nihilistic.