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Movies that feel likeTropic Thunder (2008)

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

If you loved Tropic Thunder, the closest films we have are Jojo Rabbit (2019), Hot Shots! (1991) and Three Kings (1999). All three share Tropic Thunder's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is In the Loop (2009).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ben Stillerkineticwittyplayfulbleakdarkly funny
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Jojo Rabbit
2019 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 81%★ 7.9comedy · war · dramaRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: satire

The difference: Trades the momentum of Tropic Thunder for an angle of its own

Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

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Hot Shots!
1991 · dir. Jim Abrahams
🍅 83%★ 6.7action · comedy · war

The same preoccupation in both: parody

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Tropic Thunder does

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.

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Three Kings
1999 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 94%★ 7.1action · comedy · war

Kinetic where it counts, witty underneath

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb poster
🍅 98%★ 8.3comedy · war

One thread runs through both: satire

The difference: 44 years apart, and the 1960s show

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan poster
🍅 90%★ 7.4comedyPrime Video

Playful and darkly funny in the same breath

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%★ 7.4comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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Scary Movie
2000 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 52%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Peacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: parody

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!

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M*A*S*H
1970 · dir. Robert Altman
🍅 86%★ 7.3comedy · drama · war

Bleak war, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Tropic Thunder does

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · dir. Michael Patrick Jann
🍅 47%★ 6.7comedy

Playful action in both cases

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent poster
🍅 87%★ 7action · comedy · crimeRent or buy

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

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Office Space
1999 · dir. Mike Judge
🍅 82%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

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Attack the Block
2011 · dir. Joe Cornish
🍅 91%★ 6.7action · comedy · science fiction

Kinetic war in both cases

A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

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