Excellent Comedy

Rating: 9/10 (14 August 2008)

This movie really shone to me as well-done and amusing. I came in with somewhat low expectations, since it came out in a month with two other big comedies (Pineapple Express and Step Brothers- both of which are also amazing and hilarious), but left satisfied.
Jack Black especially stuck out to me as having done excellent in this film, very convincingly (read: amusingly) portraying a drug addict going through withdrawal. Ben Stiller was good too, but he didn't really seem to stick out as extraordinary. Robert Downey Jr. stole the show as I expected, with his character being a hilariously confused actor stuck in all the roles he had played.
All in all, the action and comedy in this movie (including the un-Tom-Cruise-like character Tom Cruise plays) makes it worth the trip to the theater. You won't be disappointed!