18 November 2008 2:24 PM, PST | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news
With Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr. and Jack Black in the lead roles, Tropic Thunder looked like it could become a cinematic dynamo. However, the movie never quite ignited with audiences. It earned a decent $110 million, so it did fine, but it failed to live up to its billing.
Which is probably about right, as the film never quite entertains as much as it should. Tropic Thunder takes us to the set of a flick called. Tropic Thunder. Based on the memoirs of a vet named Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) stages a big Vietnam War-based drama. Unfortunately, he encounters plenty of problems, most of which connect to his actors. He has to deal with the egos of fading action star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), drug-addled low-brow comic Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), and Oscar-winning Australian Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.), an actor so .method. that
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