TROPIC THUNDER

Run time: 107 min
MPAA: R for pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material

The movie they think they're making... isn't a movie anymore.

Gosh, has Hollywood has run out of idea so the only way they can draw a laugh is to mock themselves to the limit? However it really works, for those movie buffs and Access Hollywood viewers this film is an amalgamation of Russel Crowe's antics, A-List star with an ego the size of Texas, Belgium and California, Rapper with explicit lyrics, another version of Eddie Murphy and a Shia LaBeouf lookalike. Somehow it felt like an overly glitter version of The-A-Team with Tom Cruise adding the fun mocking studio executive.

The actors are, Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) a rapper with "explicit" hit song, "I Love Tha' Pussy". Geeze they surely push stereotypes too hard for this character, then there's the A-list action star, Tugg Speedman's (Ben Stiller) and funnyman Jeff "Fatty" Portnoy (Jack Black), who had a very valuable talent, farting in a movie. Then there's Russel Crowe incarnation, Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), five time Oscar winner who takes acting too seriously.

These Hollywood bunch were thrown in Vietnam making a war movie and a expected the shoot went into a mess, they even has to encounter a real drug smuggler cartel somewhere in Laos in an unbelievable act reminds us of The Great Escape.

Forget logic, every aspect of this movie seems to drag people out of their senses, it seems, even in the most chaotic scene, that even bullets doesn't want to hit them at all since any death will ruin the humor of this film.

With lots of cameos, even Lance Bass make a parody of you-know-what-but-I-shall-not-make-spoiler and John Voight desiring an Oscar is a breeze of nice chuckle for me. It even spoof Apocalypse Now and war movies. Overall, if you want a non stop humor that will tickle your belly, this is the right movie for you. The more you know Hollywood, the more you will be amused by this flick.