Below is a review I posted for Fandango.com. (Fun site, btw. You can make your very own bag puppets, as you can see from the image above. Who wouldn't love that? ... You could tell that's me, right?)
Enjoy.
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Ben Stiller directs himself playing an actor thrust into the role of a director, Robert Downey Jr. playing a guy playing a black guy, Steve Coogan playing the director who needs a little direction, and for good measure, a little Jack Black on the side, which turns out to be the least impressive performance in this movie.
Stiller does his thing — funny, but no surprises. And even RDJr., who delivers a fair share of the film's comedy, doesn't get the biggest laughs here. Tom Cruise's cameo as the fat, bald, hairy, short-tempered behind-the-scenes billionaire fronting the money for the movie-in-a-movie steals the whole show. Every time that guy appeared on screen, he couldn't stop yelling, and I couldn't stop laughing.
With some solid performances from the rest of the supporting cast, including SNL's Bill Hader as Tom Cruise's ultimately spineless No. 2, this movie is a solid hit and totally worth seeing. Just keep in mind the movie-in-a-movie is a war movie. Oh yeah. It's bloody.
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