Crossed the line a few too many times.

Rating: 6/10 (17 August 2008)

Tropic Thunder is a movie that is at times very funny, but at other times was blatantly offensive. For nearly the first half hour of this film I was hysterically laughing my head off, thinking that it was well on its way to being the comedy of the year, but then began the offensive jokes about people with mental handicaps. I completely felt that these jokes were totally out of line, and just showed poor taste on the filmmakers behalf. You can say that it was all in good fun, but they took it way too far and never tried to redeem what they said. Yes, they made fun of many things in this film, most notably other Vietnam war movies like Platoon and Apocalypse Now, and I loved how they made fun of the Hollywood studio system; and if the film had stuck to those type of jokes, I wouldn't have had a problem with it, and would've thought it was the funniest movie of the year, but instead it traipsed into territory that while may be funny to some, is blatantly offensive for others. Now everyone has their own opinion on this particular issue, so if this issue doesn't bother you you'll love this movie, but if you are offended by this sort of thing you should skip it.
Overall Tropic Thunder is a movie with plenty of laughs to be had, but the offensive jokes took me out of the viewing experience and I just never really came back to it after that point. This simple fact lost Tropic Thunder a good number of points in my book.
I give Tropic Thunder a 6 out of 10!