After he is chewed a brand-new rear orifice by ImagiCorp's Scott Rudin-esque chief Les Grossman (Tom Cruise, virtually unrecognizable in makeup and padding), Damien takes a note from "Four Leaf" himself: Cockburn air-lifts himself, his four leads - plus newcomer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel) - into a remote valley where they'll have no choice but to follow his direction. Jackson) who, in addition to movies, is also branching out into the beverage market with his Booty Sweat energy drink. And making their debut as "serious" actors are two personalities not known for their acting chops: Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), a drug-addicted, gross-out comedian who single-handedly played an entire overweight, flatulent family in the popular comedy "Fatties" ("Fatties: Fart 2" is already in the can, so to speak), and rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Speedman's costar is Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), the Australian actor whose commitment to his craft has lead him to take on such "risky," Oscar-grabbing roles as a gay monk in Fox Searchlight's bold "Satan's Alley," as well as undergo a number of startling physical transformations: For "Tropic Thunder," Kirk has gone through a controversial "pigmentation alteration" procedure that has essentially transformed his face into that of an African-American man, albeit one who talks and acts like Carl Weathers in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE. Tugg's previous foray into drama, the embarrassingly bad "Simple Jack," in which he played an intellectually challenged man who can talk to animals, has recently been voted worst movie. Damien's star is Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller, who also cowrote and directed), an actor of obviously limited talent whose once-popular, now ludicrous "Scorcher" action franchise has clearly run out of gas. The film's rookie director, Brit Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan), blames his ensemble of ego-clashing, out-of-control stars and their inability to take direction for the sinking of the whole project. "Tropic Thunder" - ImagiCorp studio's adaptation of 'Nam hero John "Four Leaf" Tayback's (Nick Nolte) POW memoir that's currently being shot on location in Vietnam - is already way over-budget and a month behind schedule, even though the film has only been in production for five days. ![]() When is a bone-headed rumble-in-the-jungle more than just a dumb action movie? When it's also a pretty sharp, knowingly excessive satire of the industry that churns them out.
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