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The main reason Tropic Thunder works so well though is it’s down to the cast.

The likes of Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Steve Coogan, and Nick Nolte all turning in terrific comedic performances that they had fun with.

In the action-comedy “Tropic Thunder,” Ben Stiller plays pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman, who is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced.

He sets out to Southeast Asia with a “Who’s Who” of celebrity co-stars.

Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they’re portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.

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Warning:- this post does contain the films Goofs. May spoil the film.

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… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:

Director
Ben Stiller

Writers
Ben Stiller
Justin Theroux

Release Date
19 September 2008 (UK) 

Genre
Action | Adventure | Comedy 

Tagline
The movie they think they’re making… isn’t a movie anymore.

Plot
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Goofs

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At one point, Tugg says one actor may win a Teen Choice Award, and claims that “they’ll slime you and everything!”. Teen Choice Award winners get surfboards. The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards show is famous for sliming winners.
• Errors in geography: In the opening moments, we are told the location is “South East Vietnam.” Later the specific setting is Quang Tri. During the Vietnam War, Quang Tri was South Vietnam’s northernmost province. After reunification, it was in the middle of the country. Either way, Quang Tri is not in eastern Vietnam.
• Continuity: When Tugg Speedman talks to Kirk Lazarus, the backpack strap on his right shoulder is sometimes over the carabiner and sometimes beside it.

• Continuity: During one of the Les’ rampages via teleconference, his wedding ring disappears and reappears a couple of times.
• Continuity: Before Kirk’s group gets ready to set up camp after splitting up with Tugg, Jeff is seen holding his M60 by its strap. In the next shot, he’s holding the weapon itself in both arms. In the next shot, he’s holding it by the strap again.
• Continuity: After Tugg Speedman’s performance of ‘Simple Jack’, he is in a room cleaning off his makeup. When he wipes his face with a wet towel, most of the white is gone. However, when he turns around to meet little half-squat, it has reappeared.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Gap only sells merchandise under its own label; therefore, Alpa Chino could have not sold a line of “Alpa Chino chinos” at The Gap, as he claims.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Lazarus is talking to Tugg about ‘Simple Jack’ he claims that an actor should never go “full retard” and mentions Peter Sellers (“Being There”), Dustin Hoffman (“Rain Man”), Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump”), and Sean Penn (“I Am Sam”) as examples. He claims that Sean Penn is the only one of those to go “full retard” and come away without an Oscar after being nominated. However, Peter Sellers did not win an Oscar for his role in “Being There” as well.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Tran says “Ni sher ben don Jack,” he continues to say it as he turns to his crew/gang members, with “Ni” meaning “You.” He should have said, “Tah sher ben don Jack,” “Tah” meaning “He/She.”
• Revealing mistakes: When Jeff Portnoy sees the mountain of Heroin he runs over and puts his fingers up by it. If you look at his fingers you can clearly tell that he has already dipped his hands into the fixture; possibly from an earlier take.
• Continuity: In the scene where Pecker is talking to Tugg about the TiVo, Tugg’s slider phone alternates between open and closed.

Continuity: When the group is about to leave the landing zone after the director is blown up, Kirk Lazarus is clearly seen removing his shotgun from his side holster. When the angle changes and we see the entire group in line, his shotgun is back in the holster and he removes it again.

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