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A desperate director trying to make a Vietnam war movie drops his three pampered actors into the heart of the jungle. What they fail to realise, however, is that the scenarios they find themselves in are very real and not part of the movie!

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ProducerEric Mcloed, Ben Stiller

EAN5051188156138

eBay Product ID (ePID)69852617

Product Key Features

ActorBill Hader, Nick Nolte, Danny Mcbride, Robert Downey Jr, Brandon T. Jackson, Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Ben Stiller, Steve Coogan

Film/TV TitleTropic Thunder

DirectorBen Stiller

LanguageEnglish

Run Time122 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2009

FormatDVD

FeaturesWidescreen, Cast commentary with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. \Featurettes: Blowing Shit Up, The Cast of Tropic Thunder, The Hot LZ \Make-Up Test with Tom Cruise \Full Mags \RAIN OF MADNESS trailer \MTV Movie Awards û TROPIC THUNDER

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerTheodore Shapiro

Additional InformationWhen box office champ Ben Stiller's comedic performances aren't a variation on a soft-spoken, put-upon everyman with an eventual fuse, he's usually playing a full-blown absurdist monster with an apoplectic Napoleon complex. These bizarre creations usually adorn films in which the funnyman provides the supporting work (DODGEBALL, HEAVYWEIGHTS), but, whenever he's directing, he's free to build an entire filmic universe around his asinine, ludicrously funny, culture-skewering characters and premises. His ZOOLANDER (2001) bit at the entertainment industry with silly abandon, but Stiller has firmly set TROPIC THUNDER within the realm of sophisticated Hollywood satire. In it, a desperate director named Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) trying to make a Vietnam war movie drops his pampered actors into the heart of the jungle. Cockburn's stars include Stiller as an action hero who's starting to make bad career choices, Jack Black as an insecure low-brow comedy star going through heroin withdrawals, and Robert Downey Jr. as an Australian Oscar winner so lost in his 'craft' he underwent a procedure to become black for his role. In the jungle, they remain under the delusion that they are still being filmed even after they encounter a dangerous gang of drug lords. The film's basic premise has popped up several times since Hollywood's 1970s golden age in films such as THREE AMIGOS! and GALAXY QUEST. Where those films simply blanketed a classic Overconfident Bumbling Idiot comedy showcase with a pop culture lexicon, however, TROPIC THUNDER could have only been made, as on-the-nose at is, by people who have been working in the Hollywood system for years, making cutting observations along the way. Simply put, this raucous satire knows big-budget filmmaking, the delusional narcissism of actors, and even the good points of those actors--perhaps why they're celebrated--like the back of its hand.

ReviewsDaily Star - Hilarious, Hollywood Reporter - A broad action comedy that manages to mix subtlety with satire, Uncut - Brilliant, Sunday Mirror - Brilliant û great entertainment, Time Magazine - A parody of war movies and a pinprick in the helium balloon of Hollywood egos

ScreenwriterJustin Theroux, Etan Cohen, Ben Stiller

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1 Surround

Movie/TV TitleTropic Thunder

Director of PhotographyJohn Toll

Consumer AdviceContains strong language, sex references and comic bloody violence