Sunday 25 January 2009

Tropic Thunder


Action Comedy Movie
Plot:
A movie is being made in South-east Asia based on the memoirs of a Vietnam war hero. Over budget and behind schedule, the novice director decides to take the actors -- who are behaving like prima donnas -- into the jungle to get the movie shot and to make it more realistic. However, the cast are attacked by local drug dealers, but they are unaware that these are not actors and still think they're filming.
We love an all star cast and this movie has got them by the bucket load, from Ben Stiller to Tom Cruise. At last an original story and even better, one that pokes fun at Hollywood actors. We love the way it opens with a series of hilarious trailers that introduce the main cast members. Laugh out loud funny on occasions. Kudos to a barely recognisable Tom Cruise who provides some of the funniest moments in the film. And if we hadn't have seen him at the start, we would never have guessed that it was Robert Downey Jr playing Sgt. Osiris -- well deserving of that Oscar nomination. Love this movie. It's brilliant.
We give it Four elephants.

Saturday Night Bright Blog

Every Saturday night, occupied by vast amounts of drinks, junk food and the odd glass of wine -- or three, the Bright family watch a movie. Knowing a bit about how a screenplay works we usually end up talking about it and we thought, what the heck, we might as well as write a blog.

So from here on, this is our opinion of what we think is good or maybe not so good. We will give a movie a rating from one elephant to five. (Five being a perfect score) Why elephants? Well, it's because sometimes we say 'that movie was so good, an elephant could have walked across the room and we wouldn't have noticed.'