Tropic Thunder Movie
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The movie they think they're making... isn't a movie anymore.
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
| Ben Stiller | Speedman |
| Jack Black | Jeff 'Fats' Portnoy |
| Robert Downey Jr. | Kirk Lazarus |
| Brandon T. Jackson | Alpa Chino |
| Jay Baruchel | Kevin Sandusky |
| Danny R. McBride | Cody |
| Steve Coogan | Damien |
| Bill Hader | Rob Slolom |
| Nick Nolte | |
| Brandon Soo Hoo | Tran |
| Reggie Lee | Byong |
| Jason Collett | Academy Award audience member |
| Tom Cruise | |
| Eric Feliciano | |
| Tri Le | Cyclo Driver |
| Ben Stiller |
7.50 out of 10 (47477 votes)
Visitor Reviews
What movie was all of the people giving 10's watching?
posted on 31 Aug 2009I read and waited and listened to friends I trusted to see this movie. I read just about every 'good' comment on the IMDb thread and I've always enjoyed Ben Stiller movies. So, when I finally was able to get the time to see the movie, it had made it to the $1.50 theater.I'm glad I couldn't find the time until then because this was the worst piece of junk I've seen in years! Holy moly... what movie was everyone else seeing? Tom Cruise, who was unrecognizable, only cursed and generally made an ass out of himself. Matthew, I'm the most annoying movie start ever, McConnehay just was himself... annoying! Robert Downer Jr was the only remotely entertaining part in the movie. Ben Stiller really let me down with the first 'real' scene when the director gets blown up and Stiller puts his head on the end of his rifle barrel.I never laughed, only an occasional chuckle, and it'll be a long time before I trust this board or any of my friend's recommendations for movies again!
Stiller back on form
posted on 31 Aug 2009Some people seem to forget this is a comedy. It has it's tongue in cheek when it talks about going full retard (hilarious speech) for a movie. It is merely mocking the Hollywood lifestyle when they argue over Tivo. This is a fun look at a crazy world with an outstanding performance from Robert Downey Jr.The start seems a bit patchy but it manages to pull it off, just. If there was one more trailer i think it would of been too much but due the quality of content in the trailers i wasn't too fussed.It's far-fetched, it's quickly paced and it doesn't run as smoothly as other comedies. But it's a hell of a lot of fun, and there's quotes by the pound amongst this film. It's not perfect but its definitely worth a watch.
It was so Awesome that everything around this movie became Awesome!
posted on 31 Aug 2009I don't know how to start this review as I just finished watching Tropic Thunder, and I think I just saw the best comedy movie ever...Anyways, All actors amazingly were good. Usually In almost all movies one or two actors steal the show. However, In this movie everyone was amazing. Boy even Tom Cruise. I've always thought that Ben Stiller made this movie probably because he was A DYING STAR. But In the movie he became a legend, and apparently he became also a legend in reality. I still remember watching his movies they were funny but they were silly and below average. On the other hand, here he directed and wrote and managed ( Super Stars) like Tom cruise, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and he managed himself to be a superstar.Probably my review is as stupid as this movies plot but who cares, In this movie i saw all my favorite actors and they were all awesome, and fun.If you have the chance to watch this movie DO IT as soon as possible because I think this movie really should be submitted to an Oscar nomination.
Best and Smartest High-Concept Comedy in A Long Time
posted on 29 Aug 2009Tropic ThunderI grow wearisome of the typical Hollywood comedy. It no longer makes me smile to see how stupid Will Ferrel can make his persona. The Scary movie people never made me smile. It makes me sad to think most of the comedies out there these days think the only way to get laughs is to take cheap blows, or to have really stupid characters, plots and incidents. It has to be stupid to be funny right? Well if "Tropic Thunder" is any indication, then the answer is no (and a lot of Judd Apatow productions manage to be but-gusting without lowering their intelligence). The story of a band of actors and their crazed, obsessive director, making an overblown war epic and taking themselves too seriously is winningly smart, observant about the ins and outs of the system its poking fun at, and biting satire. The jokes are fresh and many of them unprecedented (the thing I hate most about modern comedy: scene for scene I can predict what will happen...here, not so); a lot of moments get laughs just from the sheer shock of "did that just happen?".Every comedian/actor is on top of his game as well: Stiller channeling his usual blissfully ignorant persona (ala Zoolander) as a burning out action star, Steve Coogan hilariously over the top as the demented 'director with a vision', Nick Nolte perfectly playing his part too seriously as a war veteran supervising production, Jack Black being genuinely funny for the first time since "School of Rock" as a comedian who can't escape his pop image, and best of all Robert Downey Jr.. The comeback story of the year has the daunting task of creating a character playing a character, and pulls it off in spades; his 'method actor' is a perfect parody. And there's cameos abound everywhere from big faces: among them Matthew Mcanahay (I spelt that wrong, I know), Danny McBride, and the big guy everyone's talking about, Tom Cruise (who if for no other reason, makes the film a must-see).Right from its fake trailers, 'Tropic Thunder' gets it all right. The laughs mostly hit the mark, its parody and satire are spot on, and if anyone is offended by the use of retard or black face is missing the point. Those are blows at the Hollywood system...straight from that system. 9/10
Tropic Laughter
posted on 29 Aug 2009As a director, Ben Stiller comes up with an awesome amusing satire/spoof that pays homage to classics like 'Platoon', 'The Deer Hunter', 'Rambo', 'Crocodile Dundee', 'Apocalypse Now' and many more. Stiller and co-writer Justin Theroux have done a good job in the writing department. It's got some of the funniest dialogues I have heard in a long time. It couldn't have been easy to make a spoof using references from so many classics and at the same time remain a smart film but these two do a fine job. The plot might is brilliantly infused with humour and homage. The dialogues, acting, overall sense of humour and satire put it much higher than the usual daft comedy.Clearly their intention was to create something fun and it also looks like the cats and crew had a blast during the making. Contrary to what many have stated, I did not find anything remotely racist or offensive about it. It's a spoof and while some movies of the genre might go a bit too far towards being derogatory, 'Tropic Thunder' stays within the limits and remains funny.Then of course there's the stellar cast that includes Ben Stiller, Nick Nolte, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey and Steve Coogan, all of whom work together brilliantly. Stiller is pretty much Stiller. He's likable and carries off the lead role well but it is Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. who stand out. They have the funnier scenes. While goofy comedy isn't anything new to Black, Downey Jr. does an excellent job in playing an Australian actor who plays a fake black man in a war movie. I did a lot of laughing out loud after watching these two. Tom Cruise springs a hilarious surprise as a bald, hairy, vicious, pompous, foul-mouthed film producer and adds to the laughter quotient and Steve Coogan is equally superb as the poor director who is pressured by the studio and who isn't taken seriously by his cast and crew even after his end.Perhaps the script could have been a little tighter if so many things were not left open to interpretation, such as why that particular island was chosen to get the actors to 'act'. But then again, there's plenty of entertainment to let something like that get in the way. Also the TiVo sequences were a bit overdone but McConaughey does a good jobmaking a fool of himself with an irritating performance. I wished that his character would be brutally murdered. A few of the jokes were overdone like Ben Stiller tasting the blood from the decapitated head. I did miss a bit of feminine presence as there is hardly any woman.Overall it is a finely executed film with some sharp camera-work and slick score. The action sequences are well shot. It's a great movie to watch with a bunch of friends and laugh about. I know I'll be revisiting it soon.
Ben Stiller Should Direct More Films
posted on 27 Aug 2009After a big movie explosion goes wrong (they didn't even film it) the director is talked into taking his actors of the new film tropic thunder, into the real gritty war world. What the actors think are scenes being filmed for the movie is actually drug criminals and real war.Tropic Thunder is a fresh dose of comedy during a time when we have been overloaded with Apatow produced films. Not saying his films are bad, but they do follow a certain path and they all have the same feel. I wanted something different and not something that The House Bunny or the next "Epic Movie" could offer. Enter Ben Stiller, who has had some trouble as of late with the films he has been in. Tropic Thunder isn't a big change, but it's a refreshing change and one that I welcomed and enjoyed.Ben Stiller's previous directing effort was Zoolander. That film is really hit or miss. I found it to be stupid, yet in a funny way. It knew it was stupid, unlike other films that try to be funny and completely miss the tongue in cheek aspects. Where that film made fun of models, Tropic Thunder makes fun of Hollywood. Frm the hilarious trailers at the start to the way people like agents and producers act behind the scenes. I loved the look of this film, it is almost the total opposite of what and how war films are shot. It's too pretty to be a war film and it works with how these characters live in this world. They are oblivious to most things...even when there is a dead body.The film starts of strong and ends strong as well. It's the middle act where it has most of the problems. Even if you can see the joke coming, you still laugh because of the delivery, good job for the actors on that one. Sure Ben Stiller is paying the same character again, but it works in this film. He manages to make it a little more fresh then stale. I wasn't too impressed with Jack Black, but he does get one of the best jokes in the entire film. (The bit when he is tied to the tree). Robert Downey Jr. is getting the praise here and he deserves it. Being in both Iron Man and Tropic Thunder, in which he steals the entire show, this is his year.The film is more vulgar and violent then I thought it would be. Most of the gore happens in the opening of the film during the filming of the war movie. It is over-the-top and pokes fun at how blood filled war films are. But it may catch peple off guard who are put off by that sort of thing. There is also quite a bit of swearing, but most of it is from a character who isn't involved in the 'war'. While I found both of these aspects funny for the film, others may not. Tropic Thunder is decent, I enjoyed it, was expecting a bit more on the parody of war films, we get Platoon, but where's Deer Hunter? I probably enjoyed it more because it pokes fun at Hollywood and the go around of it all. I tend to gravitate towards that style. All the cameos are great. I don't want to ruin any of them because that would ruin the joke. I can see why some people may not like it, it has been done before and may offend some people. I didn't find any of the Simple Jack bits that funny. While you may not think the film is up to par with more intelligent comedies, it is a nice breath of fresh air.
Funny, not groundbreaking, but seriously...wtf
posted on 27 Aug 2009I saw this tonight and I had more than a few chuckles. To be honest a fair amount of the jokes fell flat, but there was easily enough jokes that did not to make up! In general this movie had a good streaming humor, punctuated with some truly laugh out loud moments. For me Tom Cruise's character stole the film for me. These last few years I have just not been impressed by his antics and to be honest his personal life along with Scientology has turned me off to him as an actor...but he was just totally hilarious to me. Every scene he was in I was in stitches.Robert Downey Jr also impressed me, as always. He really is one of the greatest actors of our generation, regardless of the role he plays he simply nails it. He was just plain hilarious.Lastly, about the whole "retard" element to the film. My great uncle was disabled. He lived an amazing 74 years being retarded. He was a ditch digger for 30 years and received a retirement plan and full health care due to him being a fantastic worker, not because he was disabled. He helped watch me and my sister while growing up and we as a family loved him completely. This film in no way insulted him or his memory, it made fun of actors overplaying their portrayal of mentally disabled people. To me people protesting this film for Stillers acting as a retard is offensive to me, because it's so obviously overacted and a joke to not be taken seriously. I am 100% serious in calling my uncle retarded, and I loved him as a kind and gentle man, and he is the reason I posted a comment. For people to even compare the portrayal in this film to true mentally disabled people as realistic shows how ignorant and somber people can be. I find it offensive to misunderstand the joke to the degree it has been taken.
Utterly stupid...I loved it!
posted on 27 Aug 2009To be fair, the seven-star rating is possibly a little unfair. It's hard to know how to rate this film after seeing it only once. I laughed uproariously and that was enough.The premise of making a more war-like atmosphere for filming a war epic was pretty good, even if the inevitable descent into an actual war-like environment was hopelessly predictable. With that out of the way, this film goes on to spoof every war epic for the last 30 years: Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Predator, Rambo, The Dirty Dozen and Forrest Gump to name but a few. There's even a hint of Proof of Life.The film is utterly bizarre and totally brainless but all the random elements somehow hang together to make a vaguely coherent whole that is absolutely hilarious (although I'm still not sure how Tom Cruise's cameo fits in!)
A real blast...
posted on 27 Aug 2009It's a fine line, indeed, the one between comedy and drama. Or between unintentional comedies that would be dramas. First and foremost, there's Robert Downey in blackface and Ben Stiller in whiteface; and then there's Danny McBride (he of THE FOOT FIST WAY, another comedy I would recommend), whose pyrotechnic expertise proves pivotal (though he labors under the misconception here that he has "blinded Jamie Lee Curtis" somewhere along the way)- and the kid, Brandon Soo Hoo, who is spot-on as the terrible Golden Triangle tyke. First rate in every respect (Stiller proves himself a director to be reckoned with), TROPIC THUNDER gets under the skin of the Hollywood Blockbuster like nothing I've ever seen- and does it with just enough of a mix of drama and humor to make it effective. (Would a drama have been half as good? We've seen funny war movies before- TOP SECRET!, the Chuck Norris and Sly Stallone films, to rattle off but a few-, but when was the last time that a comedy took us so deeply into the Heart of a FILMMAKER'S Darkness...?) McBride's rescue of his fellow filmmakers could be viewed as a metaphor for the way fx guys have been "saving" movies in Hollywoodland for years, now. Even funnier than the movie itself is the DVD commentary with Lincoln Osiris. Checker out.
not
posted on 27 Aug 2009Scottie my dear friend,Obviously, you have been locked for too long time in some basement...This movie was not *and please pay special attention to NOT* funny at all! *Black humor ahead* Watching this made my nails jump of my toes.It is as funny as watching your aunt bake a cake and then enjoy eating it while you are chewed by a crocodile. While watching this movie, I could feel my IQ drop on the floor, form a face.. and ask me crying..why are you doing this to me???? Even my 2 months (conceived) son - not yet developed brain - was laughing with this s***! My girlfriend was so bored, she even started giving me a B/J, and she never does that!! The only thing that made me happy was that when I left the cinema I wasn't carrying a gun with me to kill myself INSTANTLY! If you ever had to choose between watching this movie or watching your little puppy get crash by a bus, say goodbye to the puppy and give it a strong push in the road! I could go on and on and on and on...but... i have to bury my sister's puppy...
Hilarious Great Fun.
posted on 25 Aug 2009Even before the opening credits this movie starts with the comedy & rarely leaves you with a moment of something hilarious.Now I can tell you this movie is really NOT for everyone. There are plenty of reasons to get offended I suppose but it's not done with the intent of offending someone. For example Robert Downey taking his characters way too serious "I don't leave character until I do the DVD commentary".Everyone in the cast is great, with the stand outs being Robert Downey Jr. & the surprise cameos especially from Tom Cruise. The rest do their jobs as needed to drive home the comedy.Now the action is pretty funny as well, overly dramatic & overly graphic sometimes but never overwhelming.A great directorial debut from Stiller & a wonderful reminder why some of these actors are as loved as they are. Hilarious Great Fun.
So So
posted on 25 Aug 2009First i must state that this movie isn't meant to be offending, and anyone offended by it completely misses the point of this movie, and is most likely a whiner who see's everything as offending.Now that thats out of the way, the movie: I loved the trailer and I love the first 15 minutes, because it was a great script-idea for a movie and it was just fun and absurd.But the bad thing is that if you do that for 15 minutes, and then keep doing it for the rest of the movie too, its too much and in my opinion gets boring.It isn't a bad movie, and T.C. (ill leave it like this to prevent spoiler) was funny, its just isn't as funny as i hoped it would be.Great start, but too much of the same thing.If I didn't see the trailer i would have probably have given a higher score, but the trailer got me so excited and the movie was a bit of a let-down.
Why does Tom Cruise?
posted on 23 Aug 2009There's nothing in Tropic Thunder that you haven't seen Ben Stiller spoof before, and spoof better, in five minute clips such as Mission: Improbable or Die Hard 12: Die Hungry. His character of Tugg Speedman is yet another one of his many un-self-aware stereotypes like Derek Zoolander or White Goodman.Besides this, what is most disappointing about Tropic Thunder is the fact that Stiller had all the pieces to make a truly great and sublime comedy, but he messed it up. Yes, I did laugh here and there but I'm afraid that most of the jokes miss the mark and the comic timing is a little bit off. The randomness of some scenes defy the internal logic and seem like they belong in a different film.I was wishing for a sharp satire on modern Hollywood, but all we get are unironic bad-taste gags. The fake trailers in the opening are the best part. The cast are mostly wasted, and the motivations of their stupid actions seem to be lost on them, the actors they are playing and the roles those actors are playing. Get your head around that. I think that Stiller got a little muddled when writing the script. They never really kill anyone and we never know if they are firing blanks or not. And if they are, why don't they pick up some real guns when they have the chance?It's better than Zoolander by a million miles, though it's really sad how a film this flat and uninspired blows the box office away while something like Last Action Hero, a very similar film which is a hundred times as good, ends up being a flop and laughed at whenever it's brought up in conversation.Do yourself a favor, skip Tropic Thunder and spent the night inside with the DVD of Arnie's misunderstood 1993 epic.
Cruise was great
posted on 23 Aug 2009somewhat discombobulated script... but the characters made it worth watching... Black is great, so is Nolte, the SURPRISE is the Cruise... so I gotta write 10 lines, who thought of this, should have their kneecaps... so more about the movie... the child-drug dealer was pretty good, Stiller was good as was Downey but not so much a "comedy" as a National Lampoon kind of film. enough lines yet? geesh more lines? well I keep going back to the good job Black and Cruise did, without them the movie would have not been nearly as much fun or enjoyable to watch... enough lines yet?? fingers getting tired... looks like this one last line will do it... not too soon either, my fingers are cramping and my butt is hurting from sitting and typing so many lines... but WATCH this movie (got it from redbox.com $1 a night)
Tropic Thunder: Failed Satire, Wasted Talent
posted on 21 Aug 2009Ask yourself this when you see "Tropic Thunder": Is the audience understanding this as a satire or are they taking retard jokes at face value? Why is this movie getting fantastic reviews? Critics are really giving this movie too much credit when the assume that brilliant satire underlies a mind-numbing reminder that Hollywood can still blow things up. I wonder if critics dared to go see this movie with the general population - then they would realize that laughing at Stiller's portrayal of mentally-retarded characters in the movie is not the same as laughing at the idea that Hollywood exploits these characters for entertainment.The beginning held great promise, but even the acting of Robert Downey Jr. couldn't save this terrible excuse for a script. Stiller has worked on this for 10 years? Are you F'ing kidding me? I thought two guys sat down with a quarter of weed and just sat around for 5 hours saying "... and then what if THIS happened?" SPOILER ALERT: Matthew McCaughahey throws a TIVO box at a missile to save a helicopter from being blown up, with no mention of why he is in the Vietnamese jungle in the first place (uninspired spoof). Wake up critics - this is failed attempt, and would have been condemned to the caliber of "Superhero" movie if it didn't have such quality actors.Satire is not stupid; it requires more than this simple rehash of Hollywood norms. This film only serves to continue our acceptance of moronic scripts with sparse comic relief.
Tropic Blunder...dumb as hell.
posted on 21 Aug 2009The only redeeming thing about this movie is Robert Downey Jr.'s performance. His black character was so unbelievably stupid, I laughed despite myself. The rest of the movie is painful. And there was so much hype about Tom Cruise playing a fat comic role, but alas, it's the same old Cruise acting like an asshole - except he's fat and bald. Everyone screams in this movie, the whole time as if Stiller was on cocaine when he wrote it and the actors did a few rails too before each take. The lines in this movie are exceptionally stupid, contrived, and the comedy is way over cooked. None of the gags were funny because you could see the punchlines coming from miles away. The opening scene is too long, and so is the blown off hands gag. All the jokes are begging for a laugh like a homeless bum pleading for a quarter. Tropic Thunder is a true stinker.
I don't read the script, the script reads me
posted on 21 Aug 2009Tropic Thunder was funniest movie of the year!! I liked the scene where they were walking through the jungle and the director blew up!! Ben Stiller's character thought it was a stunt and that the decapitated head was a PROP!! Haha! So he starts LICKING the stump of the head as the Vietcong looked on! I laughed so hard that my hair stood on end! I also like the fake previews at the beginning! I especially liked the Jack Black trailer of those gas passers!! That was so funny, OMG! Or what about that odd scene where Jack Black bites the bat? That was a little weird yet FUNNY! I also liked all those deep and philosophical lines that the Robert Downey Junior character uttered throughout the movie! They were so deep and silly. Haha. Also, Tom Cruise as the incredibly ANGRY agent or producer was so amazing! When he yelled at those Vietcong on the phone, I laughed so hard that I started to whistle Dixie!! My eyes rained like Simple Jack!!
Tropic Thunder a hilarious satire of Hollywood
posted on 21 Aug 2009Ben Stiller is a pretty funny guy, in case you weren't aware of this. Whether working on his own short-lived sketch comedy series to starring in films for the Farrelly Brothers to directing and starring in his own theatrical productions, Stiller does not disappoint. So, it is no surprise that his most recent directorial turn, Tropic Thunder, is a pretty funny movie. A satire of Hollywood and war movies, Tropic Thunder delivers the laughs in spades and proves to be one of the funniest movies of 2008.Tropic Thunder features a film in production based on a true life story by "Four Leaf" Tayback (Nick Nolte), the survivor of a major Vietnam war battle who lost his hands in the process. The film is being headlined by down-on-his-luck action star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), method actor extrordinaire Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr) and drug-addled comedy star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), each of which is proving intolerable to work with for director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan). After being threatened to be shut down by a studio executive, Cockburn is given a bit of inspired advice from Tayback: take the actors into the jungle with just the director and shoot the film documentary style. There is one problem with this plan: the jungle they land in is controlled by drug growers who take some of the actors hostage, leaving the others to formulate a plan to save their comrades, while fighting their own lack of real world skills and prima donna attitudes.Tropic Thunder is a film that, for the most part, isn't afraid to skewer some major Hollywood troupes. The ridiculousness of some method actors, the sense of entitlement by major stars, the desire for directors to make a major "statement", the willingness of agents to go to extremes for their clients and finally, the over-the-top, do my bidding attitude of "mega" producers, Stiller and fellow screenwriters Justin Theroux and Ethan Coen (yes, one half of the Coen brothers director-producer combo) leaves few stones unturned in their search for things to satirize. Most of the jokes hit home, providing an abundance of laughs.The screenplay is helped in large measure by it's actors, especially Robert Downey, Jr, Jack Black and Tom Cruise. Downey, Jr's turn as Kirk Lazarus is absolutely hilarious, portraying a man who gets cosmetic procedures to darken his skin so that he can portray an African American member of the original military squad. Like behavior that is reported about many method actors, Lazarus refuses to break character at all, always acting as if he is an African American. The results are side- splitting at times, and Downey, Jr, experiencing a resurgence in his career, delivers a knock out performance. Black uses his usual manic energy to good effect as Portnoy, who finds himself trapped in the jungle with no drugs and quickly going through a rather tough withdrawal. But, the show is completely stolen by Tom Cruise as producer Les Grossman. Covered in makeup and a fat suit, Cruise brings the foul-mouthed, hip-hop dancing producer to life to great comic effect. While Cruise has a smaller part, when he is on the screen, you largely can't help but crack up laughing.Tropic Thunder is not for everybody: it is filled with a decent amount of violence and gore, and is laced top to bottom with vulgar language, so if you are easily offended, Tropic Thunder is not going to be for you. But if you appreciate a smart satire of modern Hollywood, you don't have to look any further than Tropic Thunder.
gross ; but FUNNY
posted on 19 Aug 2009Totally gross ; but the funniest thing this year .Absolutely politically incorrect ; but the funniest thing this year .Love the inventive beginning .Cruise steals much of the movie and seemingly morphs into Hoffman .While it is in parts semi-serious ; it doesn't let it last for long .It is incorrect ; as Blazing Saddles was incorrect .The only thing missing would be for them to burst into song .I have a prejudice toward Ben Stiller and Robert Downey ; but normally can't stand Jack Black . He was thoroughly entertaining in his properly manic gross way .I enjoyed the soundtrack too ; in many parts it is if possible a more perverse Apocalypse Now meets Platoon ; and everyone is on something .
Side Spliting Fun
posted on 31 Aug 2009Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar®-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece. Tropic Thunder 10/10