It's the bastard lovechild of Zoolander and Rambo.
Essentially, a bunch of eejit movie stars sign up to do a Platoon/ Apocalypse
Now style war movie. The director decides he's going to do it guerilla
filmmaking style, and lets them lose in the Vietnamese jungle, where they
promptly get lost, and have a run in with some drug traffickers, who they
initially mistake for extras in their film. Hilarity, despite what I just said,
actually ensues.
It's actually a combination of low, sick humour, and a bunch of sly digs at
movie stars and moviemaking in general. Tom Cruise actually nearly steals the
show as a foulmouthed big-shot movie producer, but in the end, Robert Downey Jr
wins, with his probably-unfair piss take of Russell Crowe method acting as
Fred Williamson.
Funnier than you'd think. I think comedies generally used to be a lot funnier,
and this, basically, would have been a pretty average 80's comedy. It just
seems like that these days, what with shit like the Scary/Epic/Disaster Movie
franchises somehow getting made and into cinemas, when a stupid comedy actually
manages to be funny, it's worthy of note.
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