Nothing short of hysterical.

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2008)

When going into this movie, I was expecting a very funny movie. I was also nervous because it was my first R rated movie I had seen in theaters. However, I am unbelievably glad that I went, because as it turns out, Tropic Thunder is nothing short of the funniest movie of the year. There was not one scene in the movie that did not work. It tells the story of Tugg Speedman, Kirk Lazarus, and Jeff Portnoy, (Played by Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr., and Jack Black) and their attempt to film the greatest war movie ever made, based on the memoirs of Four Leaf Tayback, (Played by Nick Nolte) but what they don't realize is that they are actually in a real battlefield. I could easily tell more, but I don't want to give it away. Ben Stiller was very good, and Robert Downey Jr. was absolutely hysterical. But obviously, the real star of the show was Tom Cruise. He plays a fat, balding, movie producer that says the F word every other word, and he NAILED it. Tropic Thunder is hysterical, and easily the funniest movie of the year.