Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critics  Critic score
distribution:   1. Positive: 30 out of 39   2. Negative: 0 out
of 39   1. The movie is laugh-until-your-stomach-hurts
hilarious.   3. 90     An imperfect work of genius, a satire of
Hollywood excess and vanity that dares to tread territory laden
with minefields.   4. Reviewed by: David Ansen     Tropic
Thunder is the funniest movie of the summer--so funny, in fact,
that you start laughing before the film itself has begun.   5.
Reviewed by: Dana Stevens     If you go see Tropic Thunder this
weekend, don't be late. The four fake ads that open the movie
are perhaps the apex of its considerable comic invention.   6.
88   7. 88   8. Reviewed by: Eric Kohn   9. If you wait through
the credits, you get one last joke in the fine print: The actors
shot the whole movie in Hawaii, on the fabulously lush island of
Kauai. So while they were shooting a story about indulged prima
donnas, they were working themselves in one of the most tourist-
friendly spots on