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Is EVERYONE on drugs? I just saw Tropic Thunder. There were some funny moments. Robert Downey Jr. was inspired. Otherwise it's a big disappointment. The comedy/parody falls out in the middle and is really never recovered. And what's this crap about Tom Cruise's career-changing performance. First of all, people are saying he's unrecognizable. Huh? He looks just like Tom Cruise with a bald wig, bigger nose, and those stupid fake hands/arms. He sounds like Tome Cruise. It's embarrassing if you ask me. It's like he wanted permission to be foul so he did this movie. And I wonder, does he know some of his lines are really comments on himself? Somehow I don't think so. He is so egocentric. I was truly disgusted every time he was on the screen it didn't enhanse the film at all. Oh, and he wasn't funny. I dislike him even more than I did before I walked into this film.
My biggest criticism of the film is that it wasn't a big enough parady of the movie business. One could do SO much. Look, I don't think Stiller is funny AT ALL, so perhaps I'm biased, but I found Downey Jr., Brandon T. Jackson and Jay Baruchel, very funny, even Jack Black, who is always WAY too over the top for me, and Matthew McConaughey, who can annoy me, I found funny. Stiller always seems to be playing that retarded character (no offence to the disabled) in every film. I'm over it. Downey Jr. was the only reason I wanted to see the film and he didn't disappoint.
