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Tropic Thunder Reviews - Critics' Takes on the New Comedy

posted August 13, 2008 - 6:27pm
Tropic Thunder Reviews - Critics' Takes on the New Comedy

You've seen the ads, now the movie Tropic Thunder is finally here. What do the critics think of the flick? See the links below for a few choices.

With a cast including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr., it could be a very funny film... but of course, Hollywood can turn even the best cast into a sodden mishmash.

Rotten Tomatoes gives Tropic Thunder 82% on the T-Meter Critics scale...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tropic_thunder/

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gives it an "A" ...
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20218776,00.html

Roger Ebert gives it three-and-a-half stars (out of four)...
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080811/REVIEWS/593221592

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times says, “Tropic Thunder is a flashy, nasty, on-and-off funny and assaultive sendup of the film industry." (And if there's any industry that richly deserves an assaultive sendup, it's Hollywood!) ...
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/movies/13trop.html?ref=movies



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