GrigoryGirl Review of Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder (2008)

It may be anti-PC and anti-woke, but it's still not very good...

[4/10 · 2 March 2023]

This film has been getting noticed again because it's not a very PC film. In fact, it's the opposite of one. While that's admirable, just because your film is not PC doesn't make it a great picture. This is just another variation of Stiller's obsession with mocking Hollywood, but it's awfully smug and is filled with dated references that most viewers today aren't going to get. Stiller has been doing this since his TV show in the 1990's, and it gets tiresome very quick. Plus the whole premise of the film makes absolutely no sense. Film is behind schedule, so weak director radically reworks material and decides to shoot it guerilla style even though it's a big budget film? A real army mistakes these actors as real soldiers? Really? Come on. Anyway, the film has some amusing moments, and Downey Jr. Is hilarious in his role, but overall, it's just another smug tirade against Hollywood that isn't as funny as it thinks it is. Plus there's a lot of improv in it, and it drags the film down because it's not good improv. I saw the 2 hour director's cut and it drags in a lot of places. Very overrated film, not PC, but not very good either.