Yeah, Just Like That!

We saw Tropic Thunder last weekend. It was riotously funny in places and action packed, although "Mature Language" is putting it mildly. This one is not kid-friendly, folks.

We saw a review for the movie that simply stunned me. It compared Tropic Thunder to "Zoolander". Unbelievable.

Tropic Thunder is an action-comedy. The characters are caricatures yes, but they are over-the-top, not otherworldly bizarre.

Zoolander is a comedy where every single character is some variation of a bad Will Ferrel impersonation (including Will himself). The only three things these flicks have in common are:

1) They are movies...
2) ...that have Ben Stiller...
3) ...but no Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man (sadly, many movies suffer from this flaw).

Comparing these two movies is like comparing:

1) A Llama to a Golf Club because both can chew grass.
2) The Moon and a Pizza Pie for the damage they can do to your eye (that's amore!).
3) White Rice and Mosquitoes because both can get stuck in your teeth.
4) An Office Chair and a Partially Blocked Nostril for the squeaking noises.

I'd continue, but these "dis-similar items with a wonky common thread" are kinda hard to come up with. Give it a try, you'll see what I mean.

In any case, Tropic Thunder has a Jennifer Love Hewitt cameo near the end (no joke!), so that means the movie was A-OK by me. :)