Tropic Thunder

[trinityvixen]

Spoiler intended for ivy03: How the heck did you keep a straight face when I was talking about Wonder Boys and you knew--you knew!--about that trailer!?!? I wouldn't have been able to do it!!

Liked it loads, laughed a ton. I was bit disoriented by the change of moods back and forth between the disparate groups of characters and the odd cameos and the fact that even though the man is staring you in the face for half the movie, I couldn't really see Robert Downey Jr. I guess that means he did a good job. He did, to be fair. Wonder if he helped coach Jack Black on what it's like having the DTs...

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[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

What I liked about Smart was twofold: The movie didn't feel the need to be comedically "big" at every moment, and Maxwell was actually good at what he does. Any other movie would have insisted that every scene be a giant comic mishap for Max to get strung up in, but instead it actually gave his character skills that he could bounce off Anne Hathaway's character and they had really great interplay. Take the scene where he's listening to the two thugs in the bathroom: In any other movie, Maxwell would have stood there, struggling as his story got more and more ridiculous, but I liked that Get Smart actually chose to move the plot along than make an elaborate gag.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They had to be careful of making him too competent, or he wouldn't be the amusing foil. It was often lop-sided, but Steve Carell has such a charmed way of smoothing things over, it's amazing.