TROPIC THUNDER, much like the meteorlogical happening in its name since its first red band trailer has bore the same veracity.  Garnering praise and hatred alike, from its initial inception TT seemed to be a film that was looking to stir the pot and pot stirring it has done.  The film starts just as every film of the past 20 years has and does, with endless trailers and commercials hocking the films faux celebrities other products and titles.  So from the get go I definitely knew I would be in for some good satire.

Jumping right off from the faux trailers, we are thrust right into an action packed scene from the already a month behind filming after only 5 days Vietnam War Epic TROPIC THUNDER (see it is the name of the movie, but also the name of the movie within the movie.. paradoxical I know!).  Soon we are further inundated by each of the characters including Ben Stiller's action star Tugg Speedman, Jack Black's drug addicted comedian Jeff Portnoy, Brandon T. Jackson's hip-hop mogul Alpa Chino and the once you see it you will never forget it role of Kirk Lazarus played by the ever scene chewing Robert Downey Jr.  From there we meet Nick Nolte’s Four Leaf Tayback who proposes to the director to take the actors into the middle of nowhere Vietnam and shoot the film guerilla style to make up for lost time and lost budget, and from there it all goes downhill… IN THE MOVIE not the movie itself!

TROPIC THUNDER is filled with enough satire about the Hollywood industry, racial stereotypes and the interactions between the generally delusional (Yes Hollywood Actors, I am looking at you) that I am fairly confident this film could be a Course at UCLA… err… Ok, maybe a community college.  Either way this film has enough over the top humor both physical and satirical that if I were a betting man, I would put my money on that if one were to visit a kegger at any of the universities across the nation you will probably be hearing drunken recollections and quotes from this film for at least the next year or so.

All in all, TROPIC THUNDER is hilarious, on point and worth your hard earned dollars to check out in theaters!

SIDE NOTE:
A M@ RANT – NONE IS MORE RETARDED THAN THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE NOT!
On a side note, I am having issues with those whom are picketing the film due to Ben Stiller’s Simple Jack character his character plays in the film within the film within the film (was that too many "within films"?).  A.) These people are picketing a film they have not viewed which is never a good idea (the whole cover of book judging thing and all), and B.) These people think of themselves as some higher being than the supposed “retards” they are defending, this is shown in the fact that they think they are protecting something or someone that cannot protect them/it-self.  Yet in all reality these people are just elitist pricks (bitches for the non-penis’d protestors). 

How so?

That is simple (..Jack if you will!), the terminology “retard” basically for lack of an exact definition and being too lazy to go to www.dictionary.com, means “not normal”, if I have a piece of wood that I was going to use to build a shelf and it is “retarded” I would basically be saying it is not normal enough to work for what I want it to do.  Which in all reality doesn’t mean the wood is retarded but my own preconceived expectations in a chaotic world are.  And that is where I find fault in these protestors, as we are all retarded, as we are all different.    We all at times do not fit in be it a social group, a job, a relationship, etc.  No matter how hard we try there are just those places we won’t fit in, it’s just not in our genetic make-up or some sh** along those lines.  With that, the very fact we are ALL unique and that we ALL have times of not fitting in or not being “normal” doesn’t that make each and every one of us retarded??? 

So to the protesters of this film, quit trying to act like you are better than those you are supposedly defending, come down off of your pedestals and join the rest of us in our unique and retarded glee, it's f***ing great!