2008 · comedy · action
Tropic Thunder
Directed by Ben Stiller1h 47m2008
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Our read: Tropic Thunder (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
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