One of the funniest -and smartest- movies ever.

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2009)

This isn't Citizen Kane, Quiz Show or Gone with the Wind. It's not overtly cerebral nor is it going to win an Oscar.
It is, however, a truly brilliant film in its own right. One which takes a critical and hilarious look at Hollywood and all its inhabitants, insecurities, superficiality and social quirks and rolls them all into an extremely well-produced and accessible film, set with a backdrop of popcorn-style action.
Every character, from the 'stars' of the movie-in-a-movie to Tom Cruise as the truly amazing Les Grossman and Matthew McConaughey as the overgrown frat boy agent was performed pitch-perfect. And as others have said, Robert Downey Jr. absolutely stole the show. He was quite simply a phenomenon as a 'dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude'. The jokes are funny and well timed, and the humor is absolutely unflinching in its disregard for political correctness.
I have to say, however, that it took me a couple of viewings for all of this to really become apparent. I went into my first viewing expecting something funny and worthwhile, but was not prepared for what I got. After my second and third time I really began to appreciate how truly clever this film actually is. It helps if you have some understanding of Hollywood and the movie business in general... I could honestly see a good deal of the humor going over some heads (which probably accounts for some of the bad reviews here), as well as foreigners, who probably just don't understand this type of humor at all.
Either way though, its definitely my opinion that Tropic Thunder is one of the best films of the 21st century thus far. Watch this movie.