Sep 19 2008
Tropic Thunder, very funny indeed
We saw Ben Stiller’s new comedy, Tropic Thunder, on Thursday night and it was much better than I imagined. The trailer I saw looked silly, but in a really dumb way. The real film was much wittier than I expected. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a better Ben Stiller movie. Keith will be very pleased, I’m sure.
Now I want to go back and watch some of the movies whose scenes it parodies — Platoon, Apocalypse Now and (surely a comedy already?) Predator. Also, for no reason in particular we should probably be watching Top Gun again, because it’s just that good…
The Metro gave it two stars. Philistines.
i’d agree with the metro really, the film had some brilliant moments (surprisingly every scene with tom cruise in it) but overall i thought it was pretty below par. stiller and black were just being their same samey selves as always, which i normally don’t hugely mind but i thought both of their characters were pretty weak in this film. downey Jr gets full marks for his full retard speech.
having just watched a load of curb, and extras, i reckon stiller can do better than he did in TT, his performance possibly hampered by him directing it.