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Article: TROPIC THUNDER
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- Monterey County Weekly
- Article date:
- August 21, 2008
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TROPIC THUNDER ** 1/2 Tropic Thunder finds Ben Stiller as star, co-writer and director attempting a skewering of Hollywood-a genre that requires a scalpel, where he favors blunt instruments. The set-up casts Stiller in buffoon mode as Tugg Speedman, an action-film star whose boxoffice clout is running out of steam and whose attempt at "serious actor" respectability-playing mentally challenged in Simple Jack-flopped miserably. He's leading the ensemble in a Vietnam War drama titled Tropic Thunder, along with costars-including multi-Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.), a Method maniac who had his pigment altered to play an African-American soldier; and heroin-addicted comedy actor ...
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Article: 'TROPIC THUNDER' ROARS WITH BIG LAUGHS.(LIFESTYLE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);
August 13, 2008 ;
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... ... 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 ... shot. It's very funny stuff, and Tropic Thunder keeps finding new angles and fresh ...
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