Review: Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller is able to put together an action-comedy with more names on the bill than at first glance (himself, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black, but in fact includes Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan and some more cameos). It looks big budget, and the pacing is unregularly high and cut together with dialogue at true thunder-speed. It leaves no room to go into anything really deep, but at least it’s consistently funny (though never reaching levels where you roll on the floor). For a comedy, it’s thumbs up, but not fully two.7½.