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Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson

Tropic Thunder is good. It’s worth seeing and, given the action spectacle on top of the comedy, it’s worth seeing on the big screen.

The film is very funny, but cowriter/director/star Ben Stiller forgets sometimes that not everyone in the world is so wired into the important goings-on in Hollywood that all his parodic swipes at the freaky fishbowl he lives in are going to work.

But occasionally I forget that whole swaths of the population subscribe—not just read, but freakin’ subscribe to Us Weekly and People, and watch “E!” What is “E!” anyway? Is it a syndicated show or some entire network wedged somewhere high up the cable channel list? Seriously, I don’t know this. So maybe I shouldn’t be telling Ben Stiller he’s out of touch, y’know?