Tropic Thunder (2008) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 18, 2022
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Kl Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. & Jack Black | |
Performer: | Matthew McConaughey, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Tom Cruise, Nick Nolte, Brandon T. Jackson & Steve Coogan | |
Directed by | Ben Stiller | |
Screenwriting by | Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen & Ben Stiller | |
Composition by | Theodore Shapiro | |
Story by | Justin Theroux & Ben Stiller | |
Produced by | Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfield & Eric McLeod | |
Director of Photography: | John Toll |
Entertainment Reviews:
82%
TOMATOMETER
TROPIC THUNDER sends up all things Hollywood, from pampered actors and outrageous media tycoons to war movies in general....All actors get their share of the comic spotlight.
Hollywood Reporter
3.5 stars out of 4 -- You get it all in TROPIC THUNDER, a knock-out of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly. It's also killer smart, lacing combustible action with explosive gags.
Rolling Stone
Stiller has a gift for take-no-prisoners sketch humor that goes all the way back to his short-lived, Emmy-winning TV series 'The Ben Stiller Show.'
Los Angeles Times
TROPIC THUNDER is at once packed with gossipy detail and teasing references to real-life celebrities but broad enough in its knockabout to count as a regular funny movie with redemption at the end.
Sight and Sound
3 stars out of 4 -- Cruise's paunchy studio exec is easily the funniest role of his fairly straight-faced career....Cruise's bald-pated, hairy-knuckled movie mogul is outrageously amusing.
USA Today
[Stiller] breaks down as a remarkably talented and wholly consistent filmmaker in films like TROPIC THUNDER....[The film] recalls the comic dread of DR. STRANGELOVE...
Premiere
Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- The director/co-writer/star's knowing, balls-out send-up of ripe action-moviemaking emphasizes the absurdities of Hollywood privilege.
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
When the box office champ Ben Stiller's comedic performances aren't a variation on a soft-spoken, put-upon everyman with an eventual fuse, he's usually playing a full-blown absurdist monster with an apoplectic Napoleon complex. These bizarre creations usually adorn films in which the funnyman provides the supporting work (DODGEBALL, HEAVYWEIGHTS), but, whenever he's directing, he's free to build an entire filmic universe around his asinine, ludicrously funny, culture-skewering characters and premises. His ZOOLANDER (2001) bit at the entertainment industry with silly abandon, but Stiller has firmly set TROPIC THUNDER within the realm of sophisticated Hollywood satire. In it, a desperate director named Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) trying to make a Vietnam war movie drops his pampered actors into the heart of the jungle. Cockburn's stars include Stiller as an action hero who's starting to make bad career choices, Jack Black as an insecure low-brow comedy star going through heroin withdrawals, and Robert Downey Jr. as an Australian Oscar winner so lost in his "craft" he underwent a procedure to become black for his role. In the jungle, they remain under the delusion that they are still being filmed even after they encounter a dangerous gang of druglords. The film's basic premise has popped up several times since Hollywood's 1970s golden age in films such as THREE AMIGOS! and GALAXY QUEST. Where those films simply blanketed a classic Overconfident Bumbling Idiot comedy showcase with a pop culture lexicon, however, TROPIC THUNDER could have only been made, as on-the-nose at is, by people who have been working in the Hollywood system for years, making cutting observations along the way. Simply put, this raucous satire knows big-budget filmmaking, the delusional narcissism of actors, and even the good points of those actors--perhaps why they're celebrated--like the back of its hand.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,373
- UPC: 738329260019
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