Make Fun Not War

Rating: 7/10 (4 February 2014)

A comedic war movie about the making of a blockbuster war movie. Ben Stiller once again plays a buffoon (not quite Zoolander, but one with absolutely no clue how low he's sunk), Jack Black is a fat drug addict (so is he actually acting?) and Robert Downey Jr. turns in a great and funny role as a method actor who gets REALLY into his roles, playing an Australian who's playing a BLACK army sergeant (and he never turns it off, even when talking to another black actor!). A great cameo by Matthew McConnaughy as a low-level agent and a hilarious and surprising part by Tom Cruise as a balding, overweight, foul-mouthed Hollywood producer. It has it's funny parts (though one of the funniest Jack Black lines from the trailer was unfunnied for the film) and the usual weird, semi-uncomfortable Stiller comedy standards, and the story was quite entertaining. Worth a viewing for Cruise's character alone, overall worth multiple viewings. 7/10