Would have been fantastic!

Rating: 4/10 (18 April 2009)

Tropic thunder to me was one movie that got all but one thing right.
First off, it was nowhere near offensive that got a lot of people ranting, it had the right balance of all elements except the directing.
To me, and this is just me, the problem was that when directing, it just didn't hit the right buttons, so it wasn't that funny. The jokes were great, the little surprises were actually fantastic and so was the acting, but the final touch in execution was missing.
The story was utterly hilarious, and when I saw the trailer I was blown away, and the promo's in the MTV awards were fantastic, but I still didn't get my hopes up as recent comedies just weren't hitting right; but don't peg me as being picky, I usually love anything and everything from 300 to Bubba Ho-Tep to Jackass to even Demolition Man. But when I went to the cinema, just hoping for a few laughs I was actually really disappointed, I had something that was made to be seriously fantastic but failed to deliver.
I recommend that you watch it to decide for yourselves, but only if its on TV or in the discount DVD section. Not worth spending too much money on.