The fake ads from the beginning played in the theater, mixed in with the real trailers, with zero warning. It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in the theater.

The fact that RDJ was in character throughout the DVD commentary for this movie filled me with so much joy!

I’m a black man, and I can honestly tell you: RDJ as a black man was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen! It wasn’t offensive, Over the top or anything at all. It was hilarious!!!! When I watch iron man and he yells, all I hear is this character.

I'm dyslexic, autistic, black and Hispanic. Today I learned white people being offended for me somehow still feels even more offensive. I would rather enjoy that movie a 100 times. I guess because far too often feelings are far from action.

Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. took this movie to the next level. Some of the best performances of their careers.

I love how this was Robert Downey Jr's second Academy Award Nomination in his career. He played the hell out of a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

Reactions like this is why real comedies don't get made anymore.

Natalie, I'm black and I loved RDJ's character. I also don't know any black people who dislike his portrayal in this movie. His lines from the theme song of "The Jefferson's", being a dude disguised as another dude, and "you people" is often quoted by black people that watched the movie. In other words, he played the character well and it was received by the black community for what it is, a joke in good taste.

Fun fact: when RDJ says “I don’t drop character till I’ve done the dvd commentary” he wasn’t kidding lol. In the movies actually DVD commentary doesn’t drop character while jack black and Ben stiller are laughing there asses off the whole time and trying to play along. This movie is gold in so many ways lmao

"I'm a dude, playing as a dude, disguise as another dude" is still my favorite line. This was Robert Downey Jr. At its finest 🤣

Well this satire went clear over your head. Such a shame.

"Man, have the times changed." No. This was totally CRAZY even back then. RDJ's mom BEGGED him not to do it and said it was going to ruin his career. It did the opposite lol.

They sold it to us on Stiller, Black and Downey Jr., but the movie does not work without Alpa Chino and Kevin. You need two sane people to process the madness, and you DEFINITELY need someone who can call Kirk out or the joke doesn’t work.

Natalie: I don't wanna watch any gruesome R Rated stuff, I should watch a comedy. Also Natalie: Let's watch Tropic Thunder

Not seeing the greatness of RDJ's character is one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life.

She reacted to this as if her career was on the line 😂

“Im a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude” is not only the best line in the movie but also exactly why RDJ doesn’t get hate for this role. He’s a white guy playing a white guy playing a black guy.

This is one of the greatest comedies ever made! People that feel blackface or the simple Jack angle is insensitive, don’t understand that the joke is on Hollywood. From actors, to agents and the whole industry. From the opening trailers to ending at the award show, it’s genius satire, pointing the finger at themselves. You should watch Anchorman if you haven’t. Another great comedy that’s one of the most quoted.

It’s perfectly ok for you to watch and enjoy RDJ in blackface. The whole movie is a commentary on Hollywood’s eccentricities, excesses and hubris. He has been nearly universally acclaimed by every African-American I know in New Orleans as doing the impossible: pulling it off without offense and being genuinely funny. This is a satiric masterpiece that I have watched several times per year. I still laugh at it all!

It’s sad to see someone not know how to feel because of social pressure. It’s a movie. If visual images are the biggest issues a person has then they are lucky.

Robert Downey Jr was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie.

This and Blazing Saddles are the pinnacle of satire comedy. I was in Iraq when this came out and we nabbed a bootleg copy to watch as a Platoon. Was one of my best memories with the guys.

This movie is genius. It’s not offensive because it’s specifically commenting on that stuff from real life Hollywood. It’s brilliant.

She's never been offended on so many others behalf at the same time. 😂

One of the funniest movies made. My favorite line is “I don’t read script, script reads me.” I also didn’t know that was Tom Cruse until the end credits. RDJ also was nominated for an Academy award for best supporting actor.

_"Is he just watching a movie in his iPod?"_ That's no movie! That's the classic and endlessly referenced James T. Kirk / Gorn fight from _Arena,_ the 18th episode of the first season of _Star Trek_ (the original series), written by Gene L. Coon (based on a 1944 short story of the same name by Fredric Brown), first broadcast on January 19, 1967!

Another fun thing about this movie is the we have an actor with dark hair and brown eyes playing a character with blond hair and blue eyes, who is playing a character in black face, who then in turn does yellow face while trying to rescue Stiller's character. Such a brilliant and original concept and execution.

how dare you, RDJ was magnificent in this movie.

This might technically be an "action comedy", but really what makes it so enduring with people is that it's basically a satire of the whole Hollywood culture. From the sleazy producer who doesn't care if people die during the shoot, to the pretentious method actor who goes into blackface for a part (as opposed to using the *actual* black guy in the cast). Quotable as hell, too.

Ben Stiller's magnum opus work. This still holds up and I think will for decades to come.

When you want to roll on the floor laughing but are too worried to be cancelled.

Tropic Thunder is the pinnacle of the 2000s golden age of comedies.

I was 18 when I watched this in the theater. As a black man, seeing Iron Man in blackface but with hilarious context was the best thing ever. Dude deserved getting a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscar's for this role 😆

When Stiller picks up the director's head and says "blood-flavored corn syrup. Oldest trick in the book" I lose it every time. Such a great subtle joke in a movie that's full of them.

It's really sad how these days almost everyone has been conditioned to find something like this uncomfortable. They're like unable to first see or hear something, then process it and think independently. They just feel or react as they are told by society/media/government, etc.

People who say that a movie like this could not be made today should be saying that movies that poke fun at everyone SHOULD be made today. We, Americans, NEED to laugh at ourselves and get over this “I’m offended” garbage.

The RDJ blackface is actually okay amongst the community because he’s portraying how real actors think they can do every role and how Hollywood will cast a character to play a role not native to them when they could’ve just got an actor who actually fit the role. This movie is an attack on Hollywood culture. Edit: You have the best movie reaction channel on YT Nat 💯 Keep grinding girl 🍿‼️

The black face worked because no one in the movie thought it was a good idea but the characters doing it. It was never really depicted as being a positive idea. I liked how the actual black man was always, always offended and insulted. What a great depiction of a terrible, racist concept.

She's too uncomfortable with reality to find this as entertaining as those of us old enough to no longer care what folks think of us. Getting cancelled isn't real unless you're dishonest!

I was a combat medic and 82nsd Airborne, where most Special Forces, Ranger Battalion, Delta wannabes end up when they wash out of whatever elite training they couldn't handle. The 82d Airborne, where they have female soldiers who refuse to jump out of airplanes and still get a maroon beret. Anyway, since I left the Army and work in surgery at the VA I run into veterans who lie about their accomplishments, deployments, etc.... Nick Nolte played this comic but very real character to perfection.

I never seen someone cringe at Robert Downey’s character the whole movie. It’s okay to like it. I promise, you won’t get cancelled.

A few suggestions. "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" for more comedy RDJ. Also Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a hidden gem. It's definitely a movie, that stays with you.

This movie is so intelligently written, it’s such an amazing satire on the ridiculousness of Hollywood and actors, I also love that they don’t forget, that none of the actors know that Four leaf has hands, so when RDJ character is talking to him in the rescue, midway through what he’s saying, he just stops and says “fu©️k, you have hands!”, it’s such a great comedic beat. Then at the end, we find out the “Lance” Alpa Chino was referring to was Lance Bass from N’Sync, who’s at the awards show with him. Bill Hader’s performance is small but also brilliant, he works into his performance, if you just watch him, you can see he’s always watching Les, trying to figure out the best thing to say & do to follow his lead, like a great “Number 2”, who’s frightened to death of the “Number 1”. Another Brilliant, often overlooked comedy from the early 2000’s, is “Team America: World Police”, the film is made almost entirely with puppets and it’s a comedic masterpiece!

When you know it is funny and want to laugh...but you don't want to get canceled.

"I don't read the script, the script reads me." 🤣

It's funny to me how some white people have an issue with the black face while all the black people I've seen react to this movie have no problem and they think it's hilarious. Robert Downey Jr. seems to have pulled off the impossible.

I knew this wasn't gonna go well when "I don't find fart jokes funny" happened in like the first 60 seconds. SO many people have filmed reviews of Tropic Thunder and just laughed like a normal human.

This movie brought a level of comedic brilliance that i didn't think Stiller had in him. And i never laughed so hard at being so wrong while watching this movie the first time.

This is a movie that basically called out everything that's wrong with Hollywood: casting white actors in roles that should go to black or asian actors, endless sequels to action movies, gross out comedies that are utterly demeaning (and where good actors' careers go to die, for example Eddie Murphy in The Klumps, producers that don't give a damn about actor safety, frauds trying to make money off of peddling false war stories/biographies (author of Jarhead lying that he was a sniper; Frank Dux claiming to have been trained by a Ninjutsu master and being a CIA agent among other things ending up as a choreographer on several martial arts themed movies), rampant drug abuse by the actors, movie productions being a disorganized mess and/or treating locals as heavily underpaid extras, and so on. Tropic Thunder, Blazing Saddles, Southpark etc. were at times crass and shocking... but there was always a point to all of this. Call things out, show how stupid they are, mock the racists and bigots and so on. And that's why Tropic Thunder remains one of the greatest, smartest, but also really out there comedies. A real gem in the vast sea of "let's make fun of overweight people/mentally disabled/minorities/etc." garbage movies.

If anyone hasn't seen it, I highly recommend you check out Jamie Fox's interviews where he discusses RDJ's blackface in Tropic Thunder. He really cuts thru a lot of the bullshit over the blacklash EDIT: Okay, since _some_ of you apparently decided to not lookup the interview I was referring to before posting a stupid comment, allow me to clarify Yes, RDJ did get some backlash over the blackface, and yes, it was from the most vocal members of a group pretending it represented the entire group. However it was enough that he was hesitant when Jamie Fox asked him to play a Hispanic character in a comedy skit he was doing, before Jamie reassured him that nearly all of the black community loved him and his character in Tropic Thunder.

If you are offended by the movie then you are part of the problem

There was a time when you could actually do comedy, the fact that she said, that times have changed said it all, people are so worried about no offending certain groups that they ended comedy.

I laughed so hard at how uncomfortable Simple Jack was making her 🤣🤣🤣

There's some interviews out there about how Tom Cruise got involved in this. During his sit down with Ben Stiller he said he'd do it, but "I need to have fat hands, and I need to dance. I don't know how to play this character otherwise." Dude's crazy, but he's a legend

It's really sad that this kind of comedy is getting lost because people are so offended by everything now. And the funny thing is that a lot of times these comedies are critical of society and its injustices. Mel Brooks wouldn't stand a chance today.

No one should be offended by RDJ in this film. Am I black? No. Have I ever seen someone who was black upset by this? Also no. Its purposeful and funny. All there is to it.

I love the commentary on the Blu Ray. Robert Downey Jr really does stay in character for most of it. Brilliant!

RDJ’s performance was always meant to be a satire about arrogant actors who think it’s okay to do that sort of thing for a film. It’s why it worked so well, people that were offended by it or got super mad about it sorta missed the point of what he was doing

Oh loosen up, Nat. The entire point of RDJ’s character was how inappropriate/ridiculous his blackface performance was. It was a meta joke in good taste executed to the highest degree. He was literally nominated for an Oscar for it. A quick scan of just the comments on this video show how well-received his performance was by the black community.

The moment the director blows up. It’s just perfect way to establish the actual tone of the movie.

Oh come on, RDJ was hilarious and absolutely brilliant. He did get nominated for an oscar for this and would have won if it wasn't for heath ledfger's joker. Satire is not for everyone, but the fact that is movie may not be made today is an absolute disgrace.

Nattalie: “ I need a comedy to cleanse me from all the gore and intense other shows/movies” *Its was at this moment that we all knew, she fucked up*

Yeah, RDJr was hilarious in this. Even the line..."have you been talking to me this whole time???" was so good. They all were great. I saw this at the movies in an empty theater. Omg, I was dying laughing.

Tropic Thunder is a classic

Downey was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar (as well as a Golden Globe, a SAG, and a BAFTA) for the role of Kirk Lazarus. Might darn near have won it too, had it not been the same year Heath Ledger had played the Joker in The Dark Knight. Yeah. It was that long ago. Cruise got a Golden Globe nom for Les Grossman.

The reason why RDJ got away with blackface even when it was made, was because everyone got that it was calling out Hollywood's past and present, using white actors in ethnic roles. I'm not sure you purposely avoided the "You Don't Go Full R.....", but that was also a call out to award shows that give out statues for roles like that, and the actors that seek out those roles because they know it's an almost guaranteed nomination (and often a win), IE Dustin Hoffman, Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Hanks, etc. It's actually a brilliant takedown on Hollywood, it's overblown blockbusters, the excessive use of violence, the ridiculous deals, and the cult of celebrity itself. I think it's Ben Stiller's best comedy!

This movie was made before people got offended by the wind blowing the wrong way.

"Can you go find out who that was?" was one of the funniest lines in the film! That and "You were talking to me this whole time?" The small throw away lines like that are PRICELESS!!!

"Shut up, dude" Nah, he's one of the reasons this movie is so funny lmao.

I can't listen to the song "Low" without thinking of Tom Cruise ever since this movie. How the hell Mathew McConaughey made it through that scene with a straight face, I don't know. "Welcome to the goody room"

Watching a Gen Z'er struggling with a movie that had so many politically incorrect moments was amazing.

13:27 The director blowing up will always be my favorite part of the movie.

Stop being afraid to say you liked it. This movie did exactly what it set out to do and it did it really well.

The whole Simple Jack thing was directly inspired by Cuba Gooding Jr's, Radio. It's making fun of the fact that actors will use disabilities as fodder for acclaim.

Political correctness run amok has made movies like this impossible to make anymore... A shame we've stepped so far backwards socially to the point where we are RE-segregating ourselves and making skin colour the most important thing on the planet rather than character as we once did...

Fun note, RDJ's accent when speaking mandarin is seriously pretty good.

One of the best comedies of all time. I still think this is RDJ’s best piece of work. He should’ve won the Oscar that year imo.

I love how Nat's been reduced to a giggling incoherent mess just trying _to describe_ this movie. XD

The look on Natalie"s face when the director steps on a land mine and explodes 13:28.....PRICELESS.🤣🤣

Seeing her reaction to realizing Robert Downey in black face made me laugh so hard!

I’ve gotta say as a black man, RDJ gets a pass this movie is hilarious 💀 favorite part “I can collar up some of them greens” 😂😂😂

This is one of the best comedy movies out there and Robert Downey Jr's character is the best part of this movie they were making fun of method actors and that's the whole point of it it's hilarious

Tropic Thunder is literally piss your pants laughing, it's so stupid but just so hilarious. It's so over the top but in a way where they literally sat around and said ok how can we make this even more over the top?

Just wow. Sees someone playing a mentally challenged person in a comedic way, feels uncomfortable. Sees a white man plays a black man, feels uncomfortable. Definitely we're living in the worst times.

One of the greatest comedies ever robert Downey Jr was perfect in his role, Tom cruise was nuts

When you say you "weren't prepared" for this movie, what you mean is "I dont know what the woke position is on this movie, so I'm afraid to say i liked it." RDJ's character was making fun of actors like that. Stop being afraid of Twitter mobs.

As black people we are completely okay with Robert Downey Jr in black face😂. Surprisingly everyone I've ever talked to who's seen the movie wants a sequel.

Perhaps you should try The Three Amigo's from the 80s. This was a film about a group of actors who are confused for their characters and who confuse the situation they are in. I don't know if this was something in the minds of the writers of Tropic Thunder, but this is a western type movie with Chevy Chase, Martin Short and Steve Martin.

A movie that PC culture can't touch because it was done the right way. Glory.

Also Nat, your pure shock/half hyperventilating/ half wanting to laugh when Damien got unexpectedly blown into bits by the land mine was the best reaction to that moment 😂😂

just to clarify, I LOVE RDJ in this movie. I wish they made a second movie and yes I want him in blackface.

Without a doubt one of the greatest comedies ever made

There was an entire feature length in-universe documentary about the making of this film. All the main actors shot *so* much more footage for this film!

I think Nat is more shocked than anything else. I can't really tell if she enjoyed it or not. I'm leaning towards not because at the end she tell us she doesn't ever want to see this again. Kinda surprising and sad, really. This is an amazing movie but I think she was put off by the black face of RDJ, almost like she's afraid to like it because of that.

By far my favorite character is Les Grossman (Tom Cruise). Cracks me up every time. In an interview Tom Cruise said when they approached him about doing the movie he said the only way he would do it is if his character had very large hands. If you really look you can see that his character's hands are relatively large for his arms and body.

lol RDJ acting "black" was the best part of this movie and it was hilarious to see you squirm during those scenes 😅 You're allowed to laugh, I didn't find it offensive I knew it was satire

Watching Nat be as uncomfortable as she was with the off brand humor is almost better then the movie. Everyone loves this movie partly because of the uncomfortable parts.

Never go full Natalie!

I love watching this movie. Every actor with a sense of humor said screw it let’s make a movie and go nuts

Oh my God, are you kidding me! People are so sensitive nowadays. You do realize you had a stronger reaction to Robert Downey Jr. in black face than him throwing the child off the bridge.