Tropic Thunder

And on a lighter note….Tropic Thunder is a comedy that really made me laugh.  Many times.  Ben Stiller wrote, directed and starred in this movie about a group of spoiled actors playing soldiers in a big budget movie about the Vietnam War.  Disaster strikes and the men find themselves without a script or a director in the jungle, having to survive as the soldiers they were pretending to be.  The most interesting part of the movie is Robert Downey Jr., playing a white Australian actor playing the part of a black man for this role.  He stays in character all the time, no matter what is going on, and bounces off people with perfect comic timing.  The whole cast, Stiller, Downey, Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Jay Baruchel and others, keep it lively and funny without going too far.  I appreciate any movie that makes me laugh–many times–and so will you.