A movie for 15 year olds

Rating: 4/10 (23 October 2008)

Ben Stiller has said he kind of wrote the script for this movie when he was a teenager, and it shows. And this is probably the audience that'll get the most out of watching this. Teenagers and Hollywood movie makers, logically enough. The "fun" cliché that the characters think they are still making a movie when they're not, is perhaps fun enough for a scene or so, but not for an entire movie. It gets shallow awfully quick.
And no, you can't save the rest of the script with toilet humour and continue on the "they think they know what is going on, but they're not." There are some single funny scenes that may give you a hint of a smile on your face, but not much more.
When I was a teenager, I loved Dumb & Dumber and thought it was one of the greatest movies ever made. Then you grow up and realize how awfully wrong you were. This is also the case with Tropic Thunder. If you're a teenager, you might think this is one of the greatest and funniest movies ever made. But trust me, in a few years, you will realize it is not. It's not even close.