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On August 13th, this ridiculously funny comedy Tropic Thunder is being released.  If you have not seen this trailer, you are seriously missing out.  It looks like Ben Stiller has done it again, taking the comedy genre another step towards a belly ache of laughs.

The film also stars Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.  To add to the fun Robert Downey Jr. plays a white actor, who has undergone a “special surgery” to play the role of a black man.  This of course will lead to hilarity at a new level.  To top it off the trio are filming a Vietnam era action movie that turns a little to real.

The NYT is covering the film this morning in an article saying:

“Tropic Thunder” has about as much feminine presence as “Platoon.” That combat classic, Mr. Stiller recently told The Los Angeles Daily News, helped inspire him to make a satire when its director, Oliver Stone, dismissed him at a casting meeting for the movie with the words “You’re cute.”

“Tropic Thunder” follows actors who get tangled up in real warfare with a paramilitary drug gang while working out their anxieties and insecurities on a “Platoon”-like movie shoot. Along the way they dabble in some humor that is exceptionally rude, especially for DreamWorks.