DAVIS IN LAS VEGAS: #37-TROPIC THUNDER

Ben Stiller, Jeff Kahn, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Matthew McConaughey,Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise

Ben Stiller plays pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman, who 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 hiphop-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.

ROTTEN TOMATOES: 84 / 100

IMDb: 8.1 / 10

METACRITIC: 7.2 / 10

Tropic Thunder deserves to be seen solely for Downey Jr.'s brilliant one-man show, which, in a perfect world, would be recognized by Oscar voters come January.

In no way am I saying what Downey Jr. did with Lazarus is on the same level as what Heath Ledger accomplished with the Joker in "The Dark Knight," but they do share the similarity of completely walking away with their respective movies.

8.0 / 10

A truly laugh a minute action comedy. Loaded with mega stars the performance of Robert Downey, Jr. will leave you with your mouth hanging open. The buy from Pineapple Express "RED" plays the DEMO guy in TT-really FUNNY! Nick Nolte as the author of the story-truly funny but BOY is he getting OLD!! Drinking is HARD on you.

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