They really need to cool down with movie trailers! Felt like I'd already seen the movie!

Rating: 7/10 (18 August 2008)

Very amusing big budget comedy about a bunch of superstar actors who think they're making a movie when they're really lost in the jungle and being pursued by machine-gun wielding members of a drug cartel. Ben Stiller plays a huge action star trying to break into drama. Robert Downey Jr. plays a method actor who goes so deep into character that he doesn't break it until the DVD commentary. And Jack Black is a star of fart-themed movies who is addicted to heroin. I laughed a lot at Tropic Thunder, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped I would. Part of it is that they've had so many previews and commercials for the movie, and they've been airing them since April or so, and I've pretty much seen the whole movie. But that might not really be the whole reason, because even the jokes that I hadn't seen - and there were plenty - weren't always making me laugh. And even when I was laughing, I never laughed big. And maybe it's because two other comedies released in the past month, Step Brothers and Pineapple Express, both made my sides split. Yes, even Step Brothers, as stupid as I will admit it was. While I would recommend those two even more, I would also say Tropic Thunder is well worth seeing.