Rated R: 'F'-bombs — and real ones — litter this dud of a comedy. Trapped on the set of a big-ticket Hollywood adaptation of his Vietnam War memoir, John "Four Leaf" Tayback (a snarling Nick Nolte) is ...

Tran doesn't get much screen time in Tropic Thunder, but maybe that's because he would otherwise steal the show. Tran runs a heroin cartel in the Golden Triangle, probably one of the single biggest ...

A smart-alecky sendup of Hollywood in general and action films in particular, "Tropic Thunder" undeniably provokes quite a few laughs, but of the most hollow kind. Seven years after his most recent ...

In August 2008, Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder ignited the box office… and stoked serious controversy. The showbiz send-up follows a ragtag group of narcissistic, often drug-addled actors (Stiller, Jack ...

Robert Downey Jr. had one of the most celebrated — and controversial — roles of his career in Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder. (Getty Images and Everett Collection) Stiller entrusted Downey with the role ...

It doesn’t take much effort to encounter reminders of Robert Downey, Jr.’s work in “Tropic Thunder,” no matter what year we’re in. Clips featuring Downey as Kirk Lazarus are perennially popular GIFs, ...

Robert Downey Jr has reinforced his support of his divisive Tropic Thunder role, in which he played a character who used blackface. The actor appeared in the 2008 war comedy, directed by Ben Stiller, ...

Ben Stiller isn't sure he would have "ventured" to make "Tropic Thunder" in today's comedy environment. "I doubt it," Stiller told Collider, when asked if "Tropic Thunder" could be made today.