So that will teach me to listen to movie critics! When I first heard about Tropic Thunder, I was really interested in seeing it. It sounded like a fun movie with an interesting twist. Then the grumpy movie critics started spouting off about it.

“Eww…we hate it!”

“Oh, it’s so dumb!”

Etc., etc……

And then …I was offered the movie to review! And I thought to myself, ‘I think I’ll try it, after all, I was really excited about seeing the darn thing before I listened to those critics!’ So I said, ‘Sure! I’d love to review it!’ And it’s a good thing I did, because, not only did I like it, but, my husband really enjoyed it, too!

Slapstick silliness? Yes!

Incredible goofiness? Yes!

Extreme personalities? Yes!

But, it was FUNNY!

Tropic Thunder‘s tagline lets you know that you are in for an out-of-the-box type of movie:

The movie they think they’re making… isn’t a movie anymore.

So it’s a movie …about a movie …that isn’t a movie …and then gets made into a movie! I love that!

So you have these spoiled actors (and one unspoiled newcomer actor) in the fields in Vietnam, attempting to make a movie about a Vietnam veteran’s memoir. The supposed Vietnam vet is there, too, to lend a hand (bwahaha!) and advise as needed.

At one point, due to the intense spoiled attitudes of the actors, a $4 million explosion goes off with NO CAMERAS ROLLING! The press soon gets wind of the troubles they are having getting the movie filmed and soon dub the flick:

“the most expensive war movie never made”

The ‘Vietnam vet’ suggests to the director that he drop all of the spoiled actors in the jungle, after having placed hidden cameras and special-effects explosions along their path they are to follow. He thinks that will ‘un-spoil’ the actors and make their experience more real, so they can finally get into character and stay in it to get the job done!

The problem with that is that there are real explosives left in the jungle from an old war – and there are men with guns in the jungle! The men with guns are part of a huge drug ring and they think the actors are DEA agents!

When they first get left in the jungle, the director gets blown up – for real (for fake). Some of them realize it was a real explosion and that a human was just blown to bits in front of their eyes – and some of them think it’s all part of the movie set up!

For some odd reason, that is my favorite part of the movie! I think it was hysterical! And the hilarity continues from there….

Loved it! Glad I ignored the critics!