Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder

2008

Director: Ben Stiller

Writer: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, and Etan Cohen

107 Minutes

The scenes above are a complied list of fake trailers shown before the opening of Tropic Thunder - giving the audience an idea of who each character is and what films/movies they usually do.

This creates the entire tone of the film, knowing this film will be about making a film with involves each of these dysfunctional characters.

Booty Sweat, in the commercial advertisement above, is an Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) brand energy drink. Similar to rapper Nelly with his Pimp Juice energy drink, Alpa Chino, most likely a rapper turned actor, loves the female booty and moreso the booty sweat, even though in the end it’s reviled a different type of booty he likes. I’m sure Booty Sweat tastes like shit though.

Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown is a sequel on top of a sequel on top of a sequel. It’s for the franchise actors who need to pay big mortgages or trapped under contract. And our hero, Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), is that type of franchise actor like Bruce Willis or Will Smith. These films are fun because you know exactly what this film is about and you go for the action, not the story.

Fatties: Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) plays various characters and farts alot. This film was build for people who smoke marijuana or raised in the Midwest. Eddie Murphy most likely died when he saw this trailer because this is his career. Fatties involves a family, all played by Portnoy, who are probably as dysfunctional as the characters in Tropic Thunder. It’s a comedy for all ages.

Saint Alley: Finally, the art house film we needed starring the great Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) and Mtv Best Kiss Winner Toby Maguire. This film will be apart of the Academy Awards that year and people in the Village, Los Feliz, and Evanston will rave about the acting, directing, and writing in this film. It’s dark - dealing with real, human themes - and involves two men who shouldn’t be together in a time when they shouldn’t be together. And que Joesph Gordon-Levitt or any other independent actor - though the trailer does look amazing.

All together, you know how Tropic Thunder will turn out and that’s why we go. I absolutely loved these trailers because it opens the world to these characters in their own movie world. Had Stiller simply introduced the characters, while making a this movie within a movie, it wouldn’t have the great impact than fake trailers about these actors.

But, one thing Stiller did do was stop going full-retard, which you never do.