Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious role as the title character in "Simple Jack" resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On lo... (Full plot summary below)
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Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious role as the title character in "Simple Jack" resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of "Tropic Thunder", based on Vietnam war veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoirs of his rescue during the war, that rescue which was considered a near suicide mission for the assigned army force and resulted in him losing both hands. For his role, Caucasian Australian Lazarus even went through a controversial surgical skin dying procedure so that he could convincingly play a black man. Production is not going well since rookie director Damien Cockburn is unable to control the prima-donna attitude of his three stars. Cockburn and Tayback decide that the five primary actors - Speedman, Portnoy, Lazarus, rapper Alpa Chino, and newcomer Kevin Sandusky - need to work together as a unit as did their real life characters. The five are placed in the middle of the jungle, and with only a map and their prop machine guns in hand, are asked to work together to battle through the stunt pyrotechnics in their way. What none of the seven of them know is that they have been dropped into a real life drug war led by the Flaming Dragons. It isn't until Speedman is captured by the Flaming Dragons and tortured that they all realize that what they believed was make believe gunfire and land mines was actually real life. As the four actors try to figure out what to do concerning Speedman's situation, all five go through their own journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, the movie's megalomaniacal profanity spewing producer Les Grossman and Speedman's faithful agent Rick Peck argue about what to do about Speedman's situation. And Tayback inadvertently shows a little of his true self.
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| QuickflixSimon MiraudoTropic Thunder is probably the best war-movie spoof of all time, playing around with all those cliches and conventions we've seen a million times before. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceComes down to exactly the same type of heroic finale they're supposed to be parodying in the first place. You bettah off renting Rescue Dawn. |
| Courier Mail (Australia)Des PartridgeFor an insider's take on the movie business, Stiller's action comedy has you laughing from the start... |
| Illinois TimesCharles KoplinskiNot only one of the funniest films of the year but also one of the smartest. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson[I]nventively clever in its sendup of the self-involvement of pretty much anyone who's anyone in Hollywood... aggressive[ly] outrageous... |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumIt's raunchy, outspoken -- and also a smart and agile dissection of art, fame, and the chutzpah of big-budget productions. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chaseloud, boorish, and screamingly funny as it expertly skewers the industry that made it possible |
| WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)Kevin McCarthyTropic Thunder hits the nail on the head with politically incorrect humor in a good way. It just hammers it right in until it's poking out of the other side. |
| WaffleMovies.comWillie WaffleSee it ASAP before everyone ruins the best jokes for you |
| Filmcritic.comBill Gibronan unapologetically brazen celluloid slur -- that is, of course, if you get what it's going for |
