Better laughs can be found elsewhere.

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2008)

Tropic Thunder is not a film you need go out of your way to watch. While undoubtedly humorous at first, the movie becomes rather lame halfway in, leaving the viewer hoping for some sort of comedic uplift or exciting plot-turn that never really comes.
The person watching Tropic Thunder will find themselves laughing occasionally throughout, yet progressively feeling more and more disappointed in what little it has to offer. It's the sort of film that begins as something promising, but ends as something indifferent.
Time will show that this comedy, while somewhat original, is nothing more than mediocre.