Tropic Thunder,hmm...

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2009)

Tropic Thunder is rather entertaining even if you haven't seen the movies which it's taking the mickey out of, really. I found all the war movie references hilarious and could relate them back to the original things. But it is not just a comment or parody on war movies but a parody of the movie business in general.
Even the false previews at the beginning made me laugh, because they seemed so ridiculous. But then I realised that some movie previews actually are ridiculous. Like the ones which are just another copy of the first movie you've seen. Like carbon copies of the first one.
In this movie, the storyline was a little bit implausible but still funny enough to let me into the world and I found the characters particularly interesting in their comments and reactions towards each other.They really made the movie though and they each had traits which made them easily identifiable, unlike some war movies where all the characters sort of mush into each other and become faces rather than people.
As a parody, I'd have to say that this movie is a success. It really manages to echo the film industry and war films in a way which shows the characters and without becoming too obsessed with creating too many different elements which become confused.