Tropic Thunder is the best comedy of the year.

Rating: 10/10 (31 August 2008)

Stiller, Black, Downey Jr. you put those three guys together and what do you expect other than a ridiculously hilarious masterpiece. And not to mention Tom Cruise's cameo as Les Grossman.
Tropic Thunder is a success for Ben Stiller and for all involved in the making. It's a great political satire and defines parody real well. The film is either making you laugh or providing you with mind-blowing action. It's a great satirical comedy that'll keep you laughing hysterically.
The movie of course is not all about the profanity and utter gore, it is more about the acting. Robert Downey Jr., after the success of Iron Man, makes a comeback with Tropic Thunder and boy was he great. Almost throughout the whole movie he is disguised as a black man not only by the way he looks but also the way he talked and acted. He did it in a somewhat of an exploitational manner which by the way was hilarious and even gets questioned by one of his fellow actors why he's still in character knowing that they are not making a movie anymore, for which he responds "I don't drop a character till I done the DVD commentary". Seeing this movie should make every movie goer realize that Robert Downey Jr. is a very talented man who handles both comedy and actions and about anything else that gets thrown onto him.
As far as the rest of the cast is concerned, all of them were thoroughly enjoyable, starting from the desperate actor Tugg Speedman(Stiller) to the drug addicted fatty Jeff Portnoy(Blcak), and the somewhat witty and young rapper Chino(Jackson). They were all irresistible. Not to forget the surprise cameo by Tom Cruise no one saw coming. His character is really irreverent and mainly laugh out loud funny, (especially the way he answered the ransom call). His character Les Grossman is very foul-mouthed and has short temper and is very hilarious.
The concept of the film is very simple yet smart. The goal is to poke fun at war movies which the film did very well and provide the audience with smart and dumb jokes at the same time. And one thing Very impressive about this film is that it wasn't self-indulgent. It knew whether or not the jokes hit their target, and if they didn't they weren't prolonged. They were quick and most of them hit their mark like a bullet.
Stiller is becoming more than an actor these days. He is displaying his intelligence by writing directing and acting all at once. We will look forward to his next project which I think is going be Night at the Museum 2. TROPIC THUNDER RULES. THE BEST ACTION/COMEDY OF THE YEAR.