Tropic Thunder is said to affect later viewing of Platoon in the way Walk Hard affects music biographies because many shots closely parody Platoon. — Chris Ryan
One answer says the blackface performance has never personally offended him, while emphasizing that blackface outside this satirical context is objectionable. — Van Lathan
A separate qualification agrees that it had to be as good as it was to meet that bar.
A second answer says he is not offended by the blackface at all, understands the joke, and can laugh at material like it. — Joel Anderson
Bill Hader is proposed for Jeff Portnoy because he would have brought fresher improvisation than the already-established Jack Black. — Bill Simmons
McConaughey as Tug is explicitly endorsed when Craig is asked, but the Jack Black replacement is challenged because Black's physicality and Chris Farley-like energy enliven the jungle passages. — Craig Horlbeck
The childhood opening credits are praised for casting children who resemble neither lead and for the superglue revenge against a predatory crossing guard. — Bill Simmons
The frat-house prank works through fake police calls, robbery, and a blunt final insult.
Chevy Chase's first doctor scene is praised for coldly rejecting the heart-transplant patient before trying to sell a hospital bed. — Bill Simmons
Don Rickles' hospital-room insults are praised as a concentrated comic performance.
The Men in Black pornography scene wins laughs by pushing a thin premise into blunt absurdity. — Bill Simmons
The dead-hooker trunk reveal is praised for escalating through the remote-controlled trunk openings and a remembered Saigon story. — Bill Simmons
The dead-fish revenge sustains a silent pose while violence occurs offscreen, recalling an older broad-comedy serial. — Sean Fennessey
The jail scene remains funny across repeated viewings because the lecture about respect collides with the more painful assault.
Chris Farley's skunk release is described as an unnerving, fully committed burst of comic chaos. — Bill Simmons
The abrupt ending and final line about the doctor's death are praised for refusing a normal resolution. — Bill Simmons
The first 32 minutes are called unassailable: everything during the day is rewatchable until they get in the car with the guy who hits Jonah Hill and the movie shifts to night. — Bill Simmons
The opening phone call is smart and well crafted; Michael finishes the call five feet away before getting in the car, classic best-friend stuff from the call-only era before texting. — Bill Simmons
The Vagtastic Voyage debuts here, with a co-host joked to be its patient-zero, platinum-club subscriber.
Planning which porn site to subscribe to once he gets to college, including the line about who directs the porn he watches, is singled out as funny. — Chris Ryan
The mom cameo and the tits/teeth exchange are called very high-schooly. — Bill Simmons
A favorite comedy mode, traced to Chevy Chase, is someone doing something inappropriate behind a person who does not know; Jonah's home ec monologue about never needing to make tiramisu is the example.
The dick-drawings confession goes all in; Evan Goldberg's brother drew hundreds of them, and the Ghostbusters lunchbox treasure chest is a classic.
The driver's license scene unleashing McLovin is so funny; it was also the screen-test scene on YouTube, and Jonah's anger ("between that and Muhammad") makes it.
A Ringer piece says Jonah was mad at Mintz-Plasse, who did not care and stepped on his lines.
Seth telling Evan he got invited to the party has the most great Jonah Hill lines in two minutes: calm down Greg it's soccer, iron chef of pounding vag, Seth's own dressing, DTF.
Worked-up Jonah is compared to Chris Farley's energy; he could have done 20 more years of it and does some in Funny People. — Bill Simmons
The whole liquor store sequence could go in; the Seth dream sequence buying vodka is proposed, and at the party Seth coins the verb "perioded." — Bill Simmons
A favorite Hader scene is his bar explanation of his marriage and group sex on the wedding night, guessed to be ad-libbed; McLovin getting cockblocked by the cops, the cops generally, and the ending are also praised. — Bill Simmons
The Coke party with Kevin Corrigan's brother-from-Scottsdale speech is called the most rewatchable scene, better than Boogie Nights, with Cera singing These Eyes compared to Damian Lillard in a fourth quarter. — Chris Ryan
After an invitation to Sean, the dream sequence is chosen for Jonah's line readings such as "That would be lovely."
The stretch of McLovin buying booze, the robbery, Michaels and Slater interviewing Mindy and McLovin, the Seth-Evan lube fight and Joe Lo Truglio hitting Seth is called a favorite 15-minute stint. — Sean Fennessey
The following party scene captures the high school feeling of being somewhere with older kids where you are not supposed to be.
Agreement on the 15-minute stretch, adding the breast-reduction and "warlocks" riff and the plan to go down on her for several hours. — Bill Simmons
"A lot of people go to college for seven years." "I know. They're called doctors."; "Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?"; "I just barfed on an inhale"; "I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it"
He could not describe what a brake pad does. — Bill Simmons
'Holy schnikes' is suggested and liked; Farley reportedly took it from John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which the movie resembles; 'son of a' is used about a dozen times. — Cousin Sal
