Hollywood Jungle; 'Tropic Thunder' Scores a Few Hits in Action- Flick...

The Washington Post;  August 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Wilder through Robert Altman. With "Tropic Thunder," a rude, crude, over-the-top satire...It might be a stretch to compare "Tropic Thunder's" profane, often graphically gross...involving a severed head. Indeed, "Tropic Thunder" establishes its tone immediately...

The serious game of acting; the movies Three Hollywood stars are sending...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  September 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ......at whatever odds? Watch Tropic Thunder, the movie rapidly being dubbed the funniest film of the year, and you'll...for a reported EUR10m, Tropic Thunder is a merciless parody of...Speedman, who is counting on Tropic Thunder - the film-within-the-film...jungle. The ...

'Tropic Thunder' spoofs Hollywood hubris

Naperville Sun, The (IL);  August 14, 2008 ;     526 words ......junk over the past few years, and "Tropic Thunder" feels like an attempt to cleanse these...the Museum" (special-effects slop). "Tropic Thunder" is Stiller's atonement. Not only does...Co-written and directed by Stiller, "Tropic Thunder" is a merciless Hollywood satire, in...

'Tropic Thunder' sets traps for some of cinema'sbiggest stars

Naperville Sun, The (IL);  August 21, 2008 ;     534 words ......machine-gun fast in Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder," a spoof of pretentious war movies...1 - The Oscar-mongering war movie "Tropic Thunder" is a satire of war movies in general...movie within the movie, also titled "Tropic Thunder," aims to be an operatic Vietnam epic...

Stiller stellar with 'Tropic Thunder'

SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL);  August 12, 2008 ;     489 words ......junk over the past few years, and "Tropic Thunder" feels like an attempt to cleanse these...the Museum" (special-effects slop). "Tropic Thunder" is Stiller's atonement. Not only does...Co-written and directed by Stiller, "Tropic Thunder" is a merciless Hollywood satire in...

OH WHAT A LUVVIE WAR; Stiller & co are comic kings of the jungle TROPIC...

The People (London, England);  September 14, 2008 ;     425 words ......s another reason the survival of the planet is good: Tropic Thunder. It's the funniest film of the year. Kirk Lazarus is a hell-raising, humourless...and his new movie is the big-budget Vietnam war epic Tropic Thunder (directed by Brit Damien Cockburn) in which his co-stars...

'Tropic Thunder' critics miss the joke

Chicago Sun-Times (IL);  August 20, 2008 ;     588 words ......protesters outside of Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" premiere (groups representing individuals...cuckoo community, but the target of "Tropic Thunder's" satirical humor is squarely aimed...full retard" -- then you'll enjoy "Tropic Thunder." Call me a curmudgeon, not to offend...

'TROPIC THUNDER' ROARS WITH BIG LAUGHS.(LIFESTYLE)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  August 13, 2008 ;     575 words ......are easily offended, you might think Tropic Thunder makes fun of (in no particular order...subversive Stiller of The Ben Stiller Show. Tropic Thunder, which he stars in, directed and co-wro...the shot. It's very funny stuff, and Tropic Thunder keeps finding new angles and fresh...

Tropic Thunder holds on to top spot for second week

Winnipeg Free Press;  August 25, 2008 ;     262 words ......Germain LOS ANGELES -- The action comedy Tropic Thunder weathered a rush of new movies to remain...its 12-day total to $65.7 million. Tropic Thunder came in just ahead of Sony's campus...back-to-school mode. That opened the door for Tropic Thunder to repeat as the weekend's ...

TROPIC THUNDER

Monterey County Weekly;  August 21, 2008 ;     233 words ...TROPIC THUNDER ** 1/2 Tropic Thunder finds Ben Stiller as star, co-writer and director attempting...miserably. He's leading the ensemble in a Vietnam War drama titled Tropic Thunder, along with costars-including multi-Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus...

The only guy who could pull it off: Robert Downey Jr.'s minstrel show in...

Esquire;  August 1, 2008 ;     587 words ......damn! cadence in the Vietnam satire Tropic Thunder is blood kin to the shoe-polish-stained...measure. Which means that when, in Tropic Thunder, he plays a dead-serious Australian...point for moviemaking mockery. And Tropic Thunder (August 15) is relentlessly, mercilessly...

WAR GAMES; Director Ben Stiller pours on the excess in war-movie satire...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  August 14, 2008 ;     383 words ......Hollywood satire meets Apocalypse Now in Tropic Thunder. Surely no movie-industry comedy has...Access Hollywood or surfed past TMZ. Tropic Thunder works double duty. It's both a sharp...of the heavyhanded era it stands in. TROPIC THUNDER THREE OUT OF FOUR STARS Rating: R.

Rumble in the jungle; review TROPIC THUNDER (15,106 mins) ** Starring: Ben...

Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  September 21, 2008 ;     496 words ......Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Tropic Thunder promises so much but fails to deliver...Within the opening 30 minutes of Tropic Thunder, we wish that we were watching any...weapons and method acting to save them. Tropic Thunder takes aim at the image-obsessed film...

'Tropic Thunder'

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  August 13, 2008 ;     294 words ......last. In the season's twilight comes "Tropic Thunder," a side-splitting exercise in humor...also plays a lead role, the explosive "Tropic Thunder" uproariously attacks egotistical actors...hands of these accomplished actors. "Tropic Thunder" follows a handful of high-maintenance...

Tropic Thunder

The Stranger;  August 14, 2008 ;     287 words ...Tropic Thunder dir. Ben Stiller Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller's first directorial effort since 2001'e Zootander...to keep this from becoming a huge hit-muddled as it is, Tropic Thunder delivers more solid laughs than any other movie this summer-b...