By: Christy Lemire, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "Tropic Thunder," Ben Stiller's extravaganza of a Hollywood satire, couldn't be any more "inside-baseball" if it contained references to the infield fly rule and Rule 5 draft picks. This movie-within-a-movie is certainly his most ambitious production as a director and it contains some of the biggest belly laughs of his career. But while it blends comedy and action sequences far more skilfully and seamlessly than this summer's "Pineapple Express," which shifted from one genre to the other, the endeavour winds up feeling overwrought and repetitive. Stiller produced, co-wrote the script and stars as Tugg Speedman, an increasingly irrelevant action hero who now leads the ensemble cast of the Vietnam War epic "Tropic Thunder." Tugg's previous attempt at being taken seriously, the critical...
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