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Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder **

BATTLE FATIGUE

Stiller's send-up of Vietnam war movies is heavy on tired clichés and light on laughs.

In last weeks review I bemoaned a worrisome trend. Over the past several months, more and more comedies from once dependable laugh masters have proven dismayingly mirth-free. Examples include the Judd Apatow-produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the Farrellys' update of The Heartbreak Kid and the last two movies made by Will Ferrell. I regret to report that we now muist add to that list. Ben Stiller's latest directorial effort is not the funniest film of the summer, as has been widely reported. It is not, for that matter, the funniest film of the month.

It may well be the ...

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