The newest trend in comedies lately is metatext.
Joker Modine) toApocalypse Now.
Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) is a big-name comedy actor famous for fat suits and fart jokes.
Kevin Sandusky (Baruchel) is a young actor just getting his big break.
This is the movie Ive been waiting for all summer.
Ive been interested from the first trailer.
This is all three of those in one.
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The cast is just incredible.
Ben Stiller was basically born to play arrogant and dumb.
If you see this movie for one reason, make it Tom Cruise.
Other groups complain about the films use of blackface for Robert Downey Jr.s character.
It goes out of its way to mock ultra-serious method actors and institutional Hollywood racism.
Robert Downey Jr. and Brandon T. Jackson play it perfectly.
Both groups are complaining about a lot of nothing.
What is being mocked by this film isnt what needs to be protested.
The overblown sense of big-star self-importance is what is shredded by this very funny ensemble comedy.
The movie merely points out how foolish and silly Hollywood is about the whole process.
Silly is a great way to describe this film.
One thing it is not is brainless.
Its probably the funniest comedy of the summer thus far, narrowly edging out Pineapple Express.
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Rating:
4 out of 5
