The Tom Cruise stuff was painfully unfunny. Ben Stiller seems to think that excessive cursing and ridiculous prosthetics combined with stupid dance sequences is comedy gold when it's mostly just unbearable to watch.
yeah, but like ninty nine percent of the rest of the world found it funny. guess that makes them dumb asses right?
When I went to see the movie Monday night, the crowd was not laughing particularly hard at the Tom Cruise bits. Everyone kind of whispered when they figured out who he was, there was that brief enjoyment of recognition, but beyond that? Crickets. Guess that kinda refutes your statement, right?
I thought the main problem with Tropic Thunder was that it essentially became the film it was trying to parody: a bloated, overly expensive action dud. I was expecting satire or at least funny jokes, but what I got was another near-laughless action-comedy, as if there weren't enough of those.
All of this year's major film comedies have disappointed me to some degree. Last year now feels like a distant comedy paradise (Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard, The Ten) compared to this year's sorry crop (I did think Pineapple Express was pretty good but, again, a disappointment considering what it COULD'VE been, esp. with David Gordon Green directing).
