Review of Tropic Thunder (2008) by Eric Kohn for Premiere — 28 Dec 2013
From Downey Jr.'s purposely racist embodiment of African-American anachronisms to Black's scatological humor, everything in Tropic Thunder qualifies as satire, not spoof. It's an important distinction.
Pauline Kael once noted that "unlike satire, spoofing has no serious objectives; it doesn't attack anything that anyone could take seriously; it has no cleansing power.".
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This review of Tropic Thunder (2008) was written by Eric Kohn and published by Premiere on 28 Dec 2013.
Tropic Thunder has generally received positive reviews.
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