Tropic Thunder Review

Remembering that I'd  read good reviews of Tropic Thunder as a comedy film, I chose this as a rental DVD.  My husband watched 5 minutes and left the room in disgust.  I managed to reluctantly watch nearly all of it, trying to figure out why it had received good reviews, but finally could not force myself to stay with it to the end.  The vulgarity was crude to the max and way way beyond what was necessary or desirable. The plot idea was excellent, but the dialogue was not. Thankfully, much of the time the actors were not enunciating clearly, although the swearing and vulgar bits unfortunately were discernable too often.  The acting was generally too far over the top.  In a few places, the actors seemed to turn down the acting to a more normal, believable and fun level so that one could hope the movie would level out and become enjoyable, but it didn't happen.  Someone should try this plot line again, same actors, different dialogue.