Tropic Thunder ( Movie )
F
I want to say that this review is going to be about justifying this next statement: Tropic Thunder is the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Granted, I have not seen The Happening OR Southland Tales, but still, that is a pretty big statement. Tropic Thunder stars the following unfunny people: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Danny McBride, Matthew McConnaghy, Tom Cruise, Brandon T. Jackson, Steve Coogan (sorry, I have yet to see him be funny, although I do hear he has an incredible British TV show from reliable sources), and Bill Hader (again, apologies, but he just isn’t funny onscreen). It’s almost as if someone tried to round up the most overrated comedians they could find and put them in one picture. Fortunately, they added Robert Downey Jr., but even he falls flat in this atrocity.
I don’t even feel like talking about it really. It’s really really bad. Every joke is preplanned, nothing organic or improvised happens. Not one joke got even a slight smirk out of me, save the opening trailer with Tobey McGuire, which made me laugh out loud. The real issue is this - why give it the rank of absolute worst?
Here is a list of answers for you:
- This movie cost over 115 million dollars to produce (The GDP of several small countries, like Anguilla) .
- Ben Stiller is in it.
- Ben Stiller wrote it.
- Ben Stiller directed it.
- Ebert gave it 3.5 Stars
- I could see about 75% of where the money went, and not a dollar of it was worth it. Except Coogan blowing up, which was the best part of the movie. I didn’t laugh, which is a problem since this is a comedy, but I enjoyed the move.
I’m honestly tired. That’s how you know this was bad, because I’m not tired at all, but I just lied right then so I could stop writing. I implore you not to see this so that we can get Ben Stiller out of Hollywood. I might start a petition. Stay tuned.
