Tropic Thunder - Weekend Numbers and BigT's Review

First off, it was a hilarious movie. I don't want to give anything away but I think everyone knows about the black-face and the retard controversy. So I'll talk about that a little bit.

Robert Downey Jr. was a delight playing a black man. He stayed in the overtly racist character for most of the movie. And Stiller was equally as good. His characterization of the mentally challenged made me and those I was with laugh our asses off. (It was more coolly received by the rest of the audience)

Why? Do I not care about the mentally challenged and am I a racist?

No! Hell no in fact. The whole point of Downey Jr. playing a black man and Stiller going "full-retard" along with a couple other funny characters points out the stereotypes that Hollywood has of people and pokes fun at it.

When I saw Stiller on Charley Rose he gave that explanation as to what their point was when Stiller played a retard and Downey Jr. played a black man. The whole point is to show the ridiculous nature of Hollywood. These stars take themselves way too seriously and don't really think about what kind of message they are sending.

The point of this movie was to make the audience laugh and it definitely succeeded. Even it's numbers were good.