Click to enlargeTo be truthful I wasn't expecting much from this. I honestly thought it would be as funny as losing a leg. So fuck me was I suprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. Don't get me wrong it's not a classic and some of the jokes are just not fucking funny at all, but the reality is nowadays most comedies aren't funny all the way through. Guess we got spoilt early on with films like A Life Of Brian, Spinal Tap etc. So I mark modern comedies on their ability to at least make me laugh a few times.Tropic Thunder even made me laugh out fucking loud. Your absolutely right I am a miserable cunt, but fuck you I like it.

Anyway for those who don't have a fucking clue, and to be honest you probably haven't got a TV if you haven't heard of this or a fucking house. In fact you probably live in a box under a bridge on the A1. Anyhow TT is about a group of actors filming a Vietnam war movie in Vietnam. As the shoot starts to fuck up and the English director (Steve Coogan) gets the shit from above (more on that later) he decides to drop his pampered stars

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in the middle of the jungle to get some full on footage. Here they encounter a renegade drug gang called the Flying Dragons and are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. Thats the plot in a nutshell. Nothing to complicated there then.

This film works on some levels but fails on others. The opening fake trailers are generally fucking hilarious with Robert Downey Jr as a priest fighting his gay urges fucking genius. Watch it and see what I mean. Also RDJr as the serious Australian actor (blatantly Russell Crowe) Kirk Lazuras who has his skin darkened so he can play an African American is wet your fucking pants funny, purely because Stiller is clever enough to put a real black man alongside him in the shape of Brandon T Jackson who balances it out. Jackson is being talked of as the next Martin Lawrence and I really fucking hope for his sake he's not because Martin Lawrence is a complete fucking twat.

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Although Stiller's direction makes a pretty good watch he also provides the films major problem. Himself. He plays Tugg Speedman a washed up action star on the brink. From his comedy Rambo (Charlie sheen did it far better in Hot Shots) to his downright fucking embarrassing comedy impersonation of Colonel Kurtz (if you don't know who that is I'll be fucked if I'm going to explain it. As I keep saying watch some fucking proper films cocksuckers) he just looks like he's pulled a red hot needle out of his arse and tries to fucking hard. Should of stayed behind the camera.

Thats my only real gripe. Jack Black irritates a little but overall this is a pretty fucking funny film. There's the usual middle 20 minutes where it all seems to flag a little but it picks up again. But do you know what really makes this movie and to be honest I wouldn't say watch it if it wasn't for this, its Tom Cruise. Thats right fuckwits The Fucking Cruiser made me fucking laugh until I nearly fucking wept. He plays Les Grossman a kind of hollywood super producer and he is even fucking funnier than when he went on Oprah. Absolute classic cameo.

I wouldn't rush to the cinema to see this but if you do its better than having your toes cut off. There are worse ways to spend 100 minutes. Gouging out your own eyes with matchsticks is one or you could watch Deathrace.

A lot less serious than a tropical disease out of 5