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 he industry buzz on Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" has been that the movie would be the most expensive and star-studded gross-out comedy in history – a $100 million crude joke with a cast that includes Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey. And now that it's here, we see that the rumor is more or less true: The film is gleefully offensive, harrowingly politically incorrect, equal parts gifted satire and laugh-till-it-hurts farce. Occasional bits of the writing is very smart, its strain of show-business satire is dead-on while mocking big-budget movies filled with bullets and explosions (while being a big-budget movie filled with bullets and explosions).
Written and directed by Ben Stiller (co-writing with Justin Theroux and Etan Coen), "Tropic Thunder" is the story of a film being made about the Vietnam War – basically
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MBO Calgary :: Movies
