You're in perfect attack position. You're unit is ready for battle. The fight was legendary! Blood spurting everywhere, crushing enemies like ants. After all the bloodshed, it's time to head back to the chopper when you realise you're one man down! You run back searching for him, hoping he's alive and...cut it! That's right you're in a movie.
After a devastating war in Vietnam, a veteran wrote a memoir which was being made into a film, 'Tropic Thunder'. Directed by an amateur and starring some of the most reckless yet good actors, this film was bound to have some problems. And they arrived right on schedule, destroying huge tracts of land needed for shooting. The Studios Executive, Les Grossman, gave the team a warning to get back on shooting and just as things were ready to go back to normal, the Vietnam veteran gave an idea. He said that if the actors were put in a jungle for a few days, they'd get the necessary training they need to act as soldiers. They had hidden cameras to record everything and the director had an additional camera for shooting on the spot. What they didn't know was that at that point, that jungle was a hideout for a heroin factory and was highly dangerous. As they landed, their director gave them instructions and before he could take another step he was blown sky high by stepping on a detonator bomb set by the factory.
The actors thought of moving on with the shooting and so they did. Tugg Speedman had taken charge and was leading the unit until Kirk Lazarus realised they were headed in the wrong direction! They decided to go back and abandon the film but Tugg was too devoted to acting to do that. So he went his way and the rest went their way. Tugg then got captured by the heroin suppliers and was held for a ransom of millions. Soon the three others who went the other way reached the heroin camp and saw Tugg being held as hostage. So they decided to rescue him. Using the climax scene of the "to-be-filmed" movie, they get Tugg back safely and are rescued by their special-effects man, Cody Underwood.
Soon they reached Hollywood. After viewing their journey in the jungle from all the hidden cameras, the studio decided to compile it into a film called 'Tropic Blunder' which actually unbelievably got Tugg Speedman an Oscar.
This movie is satire redefined! With actors like Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Steve Coogan and Jay Baruchel, you can't expect anything less than awesomeness. I mean the guard from Night at the Museum, Iron Man, Gulliver, Ethan Hunt, Phileas Fogg and our very own Hiccup, need I say more? The main focus was on Ben Stiller (Speedman) and Robert Downey Jr. (Lazarus), but the rest of the cast really complimented the movie in their own way. A laughter riot right from the word go, this movie is an amazing spoof of any war movie ever made. So if you want a nice peaceful evening, my advice is, don't see this movie. But if you're in for some gruelling action and bloodshed in a heavily satire dripping story, then this is you're pick.
After a devastating war in Vietnam, a veteran wrote a memoir which was being made into a film, 'Tropic Thunder'. Directed by an amateur and starring some of the most reckless yet good actors, this film was bound to have some problems. And they arrived right on schedule, destroying huge tracts of land needed for shooting. The Studios Executive, Les Grossman, gave the team a warning to get back on shooting and just as things were ready to go back to normal, the Vietnam veteran gave an idea. He said that if the actors were put in a jungle for a few days, they'd get the necessary training they need to act as soldiers. They had hidden cameras to record everything and the director had an additional camera for shooting on the spot. What they didn't know was that at that point, that jungle was a hideout for a heroin factory and was highly dangerous. As they landed, their director gave them instructions and before he could take another step he was blown sky high by stepping on a detonator bomb set by the factory.
The actors thought of moving on with the shooting and so they did. Tugg Speedman had taken charge and was leading the unit until Kirk Lazarus realised they were headed in the wrong direction! They decided to go back and abandon the film but Tugg was too devoted to acting to do that. So he went his way and the rest went their way. Tugg then got captured by the heroin suppliers and was held for a ransom of millions. Soon the three others who went the other way reached the heroin camp and saw Tugg being held as hostage. So they decided to rescue him. Using the climax scene of the "to-be-filmed" movie, they get Tugg back safely and are rescued by their special-effects man, Cody Underwood.
Soon they reached Hollywood. After viewing their journey in the jungle from all the hidden cameras, the studio decided to compile it into a film called 'Tropic Blunder' which actually unbelievably got Tugg Speedman an Oscar.
This movie is satire redefined! With actors like Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Steve Coogan and Jay Baruchel, you can't expect anything less than awesomeness. I mean the guard from Night at the Museum, Iron Man, Gulliver, Ethan Hunt, Phileas Fogg and our very own Hiccup, need I say more? The main focus was on Ben Stiller (Speedman) and Robert Downey Jr. (Lazarus), but the rest of the cast really complimented the movie in their own way. A laughter riot right from the word go, this movie is an amazing spoof of any war movie ever made. So if you want a nice peaceful evening, my advice is, don't see this movie. But if you're in for some gruelling action and bloodshed in a heavily satire dripping story, then this is you're pick.
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