Tropic Thunder is possibly one of the funniest movies I have seen in the last 18 months. I have not watched a movie with a more outlandish cast and hilarious plot line as was shown in this flick. The basic story of the movie is that there is a movie being filmed called Tropic Thunder and it stars three of hollywoods biggest stars. There is Jeff Portnoy (Black) a drug crazed fat comedian who is so over the top it is at times a bit much. There is Tugg Speedman (Stiller) one of Hollywood's biggest action stars who just cant get a break and is slowly on the down hill after attempting to make a film playing a totally retarded farm hand which comes up multiple times during the film. Then there is my favourite Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr) a 5 time academy award winner who gets his skinned died black to play the part of the black guy in the platoon. This takes a serious shot at the lengths some people go to when using method acting as well as raising serious suspicions of giving Russell Crowe a nice hit to the chin. As all the stars are self indulged and the rookie director cant control them they decide to throw them into the jungle and watch them fight there way out. Little do they know there is opium plantation surrounding them which is run by asian militants. The supporting cast of this film is what truly makes this so so funny. Matthew McConaughey plays Stiller's teevo obsessed agent who is so run and gun it is hard to keep up with him whilst at the same time portraying satirical comedy at its finest. Nick Nolte and Brandon jackson are great but the king of the film to me was Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Less Grossman a out of control, fat, bald and digustingly foul mouthed prick who makes me laugh so hard everytime he is on the film. For me this was a real step up in my book for Cruise as it proves to me and I guess many others that he can actually for once not take himself to seriously. This is a seriously funny film that I am going to get on Dvd as soon as possible.Magic Rating: 8.3/10
