You get it all in Tropic Thunder, a knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly. It's also killer smart, lacing combustible action with explosive gags. Think ... led by Tran, a sawed ...

A Hollywood parody of the Scary Movie variety, Tropic Thunder becomes the butt of its own joke. Bombastic actors satirically play bombastic actors — without much effect, says critic Cynthia Fuchs.

In 2008, Stiller broadcast far and wide that he screened “Tropic Thunder” for representatives of the NAACP and a few Black journalists. A decade and a half later that detail is cited as a ...

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.

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 ...

His 2008 satire Tropic Thunder follows a hapless cast and crew as they struggle to complete a Vietnam War-era epic, and it dips into identity discourse, bonkers action, and toilet humor.

Hide your heroine and beware of the pitfalls of method acting because a Tropic Thunder sequel could be on the way. No, really. Justin Theroux, who co-wrote and executive-produced the 2008 comedy ...

Robert Downey Jr. has long defended his role in “Tropic Thunder,” the 2008 comedy from director Ben Stiller that cast the “Iron Man” star as an egotistical Australian thespian who takes ...

I t would be “really hard to do” a Tropic Thundersequel, says the original film’s composer Theodore Shapiro. The world was not ready for Ben Stiller’s insane war movie spoof when it came ...

“Tropic Thunder” director/actor Ben Stiller in 2008 promoting the problematic movie, in which Robert Downey Jr. wears blackface. (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press) By Robin Abcarian.

Tropic Thunder Production: A DreamWorks/Paramount release of a DreamWorks Pictures presentation of a Red Hour production, in association with Goldcrest Pictures. Produced by Stuart Cornfeld, Ben ...