Wow...7.4! Not for me!!!

Rating: 3/10 (3 December 2008)

I don't know what I missed, but this movie just wasn't funny. As a matter of fact, for the most part, it was flat out boring. C'mon, fart jokes to start the movie...Stiller can do a lot better than that. I've kinda come to expect that from Jack Black, but hey, if you're gonna go there, at least be funny about it...think back to Blazing Saddles campfire scene.
Cruise was very funny in his campy overdone role, and Downey showed once again he can act. But Jack Black was a very unfunny ham, and Ben Stiller seemed more enthralled with himself and his facial expressions than putting a script together that would give genuine yucchs.
Look, I loved "Something about Mary", and generally have a good (and offbeat) sense of humor. But the Farelly Bros. made Mary's retarded brother and the rest of the cast's reaction to him (especially Matt Dillon) really funny. Here, we just get a guy acting dumb, evoking no sympathy and just being flat out boring. So honestly, I'm not sure what I missed here that others apparently saw, but I found Tropic Thunder to be pre-juvenile, boring and with a very few exceptions, just NOT funny.