Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The result is a meta-war farce with a satirical lens, tackling such culturally loaded territory as race, identity, international ...

Sometimes, films just come way harder than they need to, and this seems especially true for R-rated comedies. Tropic Thunder comes, and then it comes again, and it, honestly, probably comes one too ...

The scene opens with gigantic explosions in the Vietnamese jungle and debris sailing into the sky, while a pack of soldiers rushes wildly about firing bullets at surrounding enemies. Men yell at each ...

The 2008 satirical film starred Robert Downey Jr. as a Method actor who dons blackface to play a Vietnam War soldier. “I think even at the time we were fortunate to get it made, and I credit that, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Robert Downey Jr. has continued to defend the controversial 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, in which he played a method actor wearing Blackface for a role. Speaking to Rob ...

Tropic Thunder is a controversial war film; the controversial RDJ film is also a great Platoon satire that should be seen once.

Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in 'Tropic Thunder,' an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film.

It's no secret that standards for media and comedy have evolved significantly in recent years. Much of the change has been for the better, as film and television have slowly embraced more meaningful ...

In August 2008, Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder ignited the box office… and stoked serious controversy. The showbiz send-up follows a ragtag group of narcissistic, often drug-addled actors (Stiller, Jack ...