It m-m-m-mmm-m-makes me happy.

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2013)

Although Tropic Thunder's humour, a mixture of clever satire and low-brow comedy, isn't always successful, with some of the gags falling rather flat, the ones that do work (and there are a lot of them) are so good that I'm willing to forgive the occasional dud.
Star Ben Stiller (who also directs) plays yet another lovable imbecile, Hollywood action star Tugg Speedman, one of the cast of an epic, over-budget war movie who mistakenly become involved in a real battle against Golden Triangle heroin traffickers when their director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) tries to salvage his film by shooting guerrilla style deep in the jungles of Vietnam.
Joining Tugg in the fight are co-stars Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), who takes his craft so seriously he undergoes skin pigmentation surgery to play an African American, Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), drug addled star of fart-centric comedy franchise The Fatties, rap star Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and newcomer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).
Exactly which bits tickle your funny bone the most will depend on your own particular sense of humour, but for me it was Stiller mistaking Cockburn's decapitated head for a studio prop, Simple Jack saying 'this head movie makes my eyes rain', the panda head-dress, and an almost unrecognisable Tom Cruise as foul mouthed, balding, power hungry, producer with all the right moves, Les Grossman.