| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
|
| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...a satire of the Hollywood industrial complex that also feels very much a product of that complex." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun Times
Roger Ebert |
"The movie is a send-up of Hollywood..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"Hey, an original idea for a comedy!" more... |
B |
E! Online
Skylaire Alfvegren |
"Tropic Thunder might not be the film to take your vet uncle or your overly PC girlfriend to see, but it's among the funniest Hollywood blockbusters in recent memory." more... |
A- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...finds big laughs in the trenches of creative self-absorption." more... |
A |
Filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron |
"...this may be the first popcorn comedy that plainly -- and repeatedly -- bites the hackneyed hand that feeds it." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A broad action comedy that manages to mix subtlety with satire." more... |
B |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"Stiller's latest is both smart and dumb." more... |
B |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"... a mega-budget war movie that makes fun of mega-budget war movies." more... |
B |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"Mr. Stiller doesn’t kill jokes: he stomps them to death." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...treks into taboo areas and emerges mostly unscathed." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...a knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly." more... |
A- |
Seattle Post Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...its strain of show-business satire is dead-on and often hilarious..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...when it's funny, it's really funny." more... |
B |
In Theaters 
