Tropic Thunder
Situations beyond control turns some mere actors into real soldiers.
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
1984, Vologda, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
3 July 1962, Syracuse, New York, USA
5 December 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 June 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
4 November 1969, Uvalde, Texas, USA
28 October 1957, San Jose, California, USA
4 April 1965, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1983, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
22 February 1986, Apple Valley, California, USA
7 March 1984, Detroit, Michigan, USA
7 June 1978, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
2 November 1995, Pasadena, California, USA
8 February 1941, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
4 October 1976, San Francisco, California, USA
26 January 1999, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
7 June 1978, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
23 November 1981, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 November 1965, New York City, New York, USA
October 21, 2014
Tropic Thunder is probably the best war-movie spoof of all time, playing around with all those cliches and conventions we've seen a million times before.
October 18, 2008
Tiptoes to the fine line between irony and insight and blows it to smithereens. It's hilarious.
August 18, 2008
Some of it is very funny, some of it is too broad.
October 14, 2012
Tropic Thunder is an easy film to enjoy. It appeals to the basest levels of humour without patronising its audience, while pricking the pomposity of the movie industry without going too 'meta' - this is far from self-fellation.
June 27, 2016
More exhausting than funny, though it is often both, Ben Stiller's latest excoriation of ego wears you down with its smothering, pop-savvy cynicism.
October 18, 2008
Though some of the caricatures wear thin, some of the acting rises to a high level.
October 18, 2008
Cruise and particularly Downey are something to behold: They give this Thunder its lightning.
January 10, 2015
Tropic Thunder pushes more buttons than most comedies dare.
September 18, 2008
For years now, onscreen and off, [Tom] Cruise has seemed like a bottle of barely contained crazy; now we know what happens when the cork comes out.
August 10, 2012
perfectly parodies the 'kill everything in sight and then blow it up for good measure' summer movie mentality.
September 19, 2008
But its better moments of self-referential snark, such as an ace cameo from Tom Cruise as an obnoxious studio exec, have the feel of a superior end-of-term revue.
