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Article: Thunder blunder; Tropic Thunder (15) Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr, Brandon T Jackson, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Steve Coogan, Nick Nolte, and Tom Cruise Director: Ben Stiller 106 mins Rating: ** Philip Key THE BIG PICTURE.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2008
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Byline: Damon Smith
REMEMBER that Christmas Eve when you looked excitedly under the tree and discovered that the big present in the shiny wrapping paper had your name on it?
Remember how you spent the entire night, feverishly imagining all of the wondrous treats that could possibly be inside the box, then hurriedly tearing off the paper the next morning, only to find something you didn't want?
You'll experience that same sickening disappointment during Ben Stiller's latest directorial offering, which unites some of Hollywood's finest comic talents (Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr and Stiller himself) in a slam-bang satire of war epics including ...