What would have been a funny movie is spot on hilarious and electric cause of Robert Downey, Jr

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2009)

This movie is downright hilarious and the main highlight of this film has to be Robert Downey, Jr performance portraying a black guy when he is really white, it was just so memorable and funny. So we got "Tropic Thunder" which is a parody of Hollywood parodying itself and a bit of a parody of some old war movies, where you get a bunch of different stereotypical actors from the Oscar nominated actors, to action star, to the comedian, to the rapper that is a wannabe actor all to make one Vietnam movie but the director just can't handle these self absorbed actors and the movie is about to be shut down and out of desperation he takes the advice of the consultant John "Four Leaf" Tayback(Nick Nolte). Who suggest he put the actors in the real jungle environment and shoot it live and it's here where the actors cross paths with real drug gangs, but don't recognize the danger cause they think it's all part of the movie and crazy stuff happens from there on as well. This has got to be one of the funnies movies I have ever seen, and this is definitely the way to parody Hollywood cause it really works. Robert Downy, Jr brought his game to this movie and more and it is what makes this movie hysterical, with it's crude but clever humor. Now the people that find a white man acting like he is black to be insulting but that isn't the case for this film and it's just funny without it being insulting. I was in the theaters and there was quite a lot of black people and even they were laughing out loud. Every other actors in this movie was pretty funny as well, even some cameos even by Tom Cruise who plays the role of a executive producer and does a obnoxious but funny job, while acting insane, acting...maybe. This would have still been a funny comedy without Robert Downey, Jr's character but because he is in it, it makes the movie amazingly laugh out loud hysterical. This is a awesome parody movie that really works and is really worth checking out.
8.2/10