Advocates for the mentally disabled may be denouncing the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder. Movie critics, by and large, are not. In the Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert awards the picture show three and a half stars, composition, "It's the kind of summer comedy that rolls in, makes a mickle of people laugh and rolls on to video recording. It's been a good summer for that." Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News was apparently still chuckling over the flick when he wrote, "Fun-impaired critics world Health Organization complained that last week's Pineapple Express went over the top ought to get a load of this week's R-rated laughter riot, Tropic Thunder . Mount Everest would look like a atom from this one's extreme altitude. Which is incisively how it should be. Ben Stiller's latest sends up all things portentous about Hollywood, and the perfect volume setting for this tolerant of irony is 11." The Los Angeles Times 's Kenneth Turan is a fleck more restrained, calling the film "simultaneously smart and dumb, admixture clever sarcasm with way over-the-top coarseness and unrelenting profanity." Claudia Puig in USA Today agrees, commenting "There ar some wildly funny scenes, a few leaden ones and others that ar scattershot, with humorous sarcasm undercut by over-the-top grisliness. Still, when it's funny, it's really funny." Lou Lumenick sums up in the New York Post " Tropic Thunder is "all over the place, but it's hard to get too tough on a Hollywood satire that in the end loves Hollywood so much that it's just not going to take whatever prisoners." But Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe and Mail isn't riant. "Tropic Thunder is an assault in the pretence of a comedy," he writes, "Watching it is like getting mugged by a merry andrew. Sure, by my bruised reckoning, on that point are a few chuckles here, only you'll decidedly pay a price for them." And apparently referring to reports that the film cost $150 one thousand thousand to make, Michael Phillips writes in the Chicago Tribune , "In the end Tropic Thunder is an expensive merry andrew about an expensive fathead, and the results are very impressive and fancy-looking ... too telling, really, to fully unleash the humour in the situations."
13/08/2008
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