Think of all the ways you can hurt yourself laughing, as in fall down, split your sides, bust a gut, blow your mind. You get it all in Tropic Thunder, a knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly. It's also killer smart, lacing combustible action with explosive gags. Major props to Ben Stiller, the director, co-producer, co-writer and co-star, who shows us Hollywood at war with its own ginormous ego during the making of a megabudget Vietnam War movie with an uproariously inept cast…

There is thunderous laughter from start to finish in what will undoubtedly go down as the most outrageous comedy of the year.

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Merging reality and fantasy in a movie within a movie, co-writer/director/star Ben Stiller lampoons the movie industry in ways it hasn't been skewered since The Player and S.O.B. In Tropic Thunder, a film crew sets out to make the biggest (and most cliched) war movie ever. But after huge budget overruns and a tantrum from the studio head (an unrecognizable Tom…