Tropic Thunder

Though this is a very funny movie it is also overwhelming. The closest thing to it would be Galaxy Quest which is the parody of Star Trek.

My favorite line is by Robert Downey Jr. which is: "I'm just a Dude playing a Dude that is really another Dude!" That sort of sums up the movie as far as Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller are concerned and to a somewhat lesser degree for Jack Black and the other main actors. Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise(if you can even recognize him) play very kitch and funny roles too. Also, Mathew McConahee, also gives and amazing cameo as well.

For those of us who actually survived the Viet Nam Era as young people or children it was a pretty overwhelming experience. I still don't quite know how I feel about it all, including the movie. Also, Do NOT take your children to this movie unless you want to hear Jack Black's begging to be untied because he is freaking out to the point where he will be Gay for ten minutes or anything if someone will just untie him from the tree which he is tied to because of his his extreme drug withdrawals and screaming. So, from that you don't want your kids to see this. And I don't think there will be a PG13 version of this obviously R rated movie. Even from the first 30 seconds of the movie you feel you have been punked by an x-rated advertisement.

My personal reaction was sort of:"What is reality anyway?" This is really the question the movie asks in a very humorous but probing way.

Is reality doing whatever your parents trained you to at age 2 so you could be fed and have a nice bed to sleep in? Or is it the things you did to get good grades so you could potentially get a good job? Or is it the things you said and did to get with the hottest Babe (or Dude) you could?

OR is reality beyond any of these things? ONLY YOU can answer any of these things yourself in your most private moments or with your most trusted compatriots and friends.