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When the box office champ Ben Stiller's comedic performances aren't a variation on a soft-spoken, put-upon everyman with an eventual fuse, he's usually playing a full-blown absurdist monster with an apoplectic Napoleon complex. These bizarre creations usually adorn films in which the funnyman provides the supporting work (DODGEBALL, HEAVYWEIGHTS), but, whenever he's directing, he's free to build an entire filmic universe around his asinine, ludicrously funny, culture-skewering characters and premises. His ZOOLANDER (2001) bit at the entertainment industry with silly abandon, but Stiller has firmly set TROPIC THUNDER within the realm of sophisticated Hollywood satire. In it, a desperate director named Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) trying to make a Vietnam war movie drops his pampered actors into the heart of the jungle. Cockburn's stars include Stiller as an action hero who's starting to make bad career choices, Jack Black as an insecure low-brow comedy star going through heroin withdrawals, and Robert Downey Jr. As an Australian Oscar winner so lost in his InchcraftInch he underwent a procedure to become black for his role. In the jungle, they remain under the delusion that they are still being filmed even after they encounter a dangerous gang of druglords. The film's basic premise has popped up several times since Hollywood's 1970s golden age in films such as THREE AMIGOS! And GALAXY QUEST. Where those films simply blanketed a classic Overconfident Bumbling Idiot comedy showcase with a pop culture lexicon, however, TROPIC THUNDER could have only been made, as on-the-nose at is, by people who have been working in the Hollywood system for years, making cutting observations along the way. Simply put, this raucous satire knows big-budget filmmaking, the delusional narcissism of actors, and even the good points of those actors-perhaps why they're celebrated-like the back

Ten-disc set includes Toy Story (1995)The first feature-length computer-animated film, this Oscar-winning treat for all ages takes place in a child's room where, when no one is around, the toys come to life, and where a pull-string cowboy named Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) fears losing his Inchfavorite playthingInch status to new arrival Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), a high-tech spaceman figure who thinks he's real. Other voices include Jim Varney, Annie Potts, and Don Rickles; songs by Randy Newman. 81 min. C/Rtg G Toy Story 2 (1999)When Woody is mistakenly left in a yard sale and taken by a fanatical toy collector, it's up to Buzz, Slinky Dog, Mr. Potato Head, and the gang to stage a rescue. But once Woody is reunited with his long-forgotten pals from the '50s TV puppet show he starred in, will he want to be rescued? Funny, exciting, and even touching, this wonderful sequel to the computer-animated hit features voices by Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, John Ratzenberger, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Joan Cusack, and Kelsey Grammer. 92 min. C/Rtg G Toy Story 3 (2010)The toys are back in town for a third go 'round in Pixar's popular animated franchise, as Woody accompanies Andy to college while Buzz, Jessie, and the rest of Andy's playthings are accidentally sent to a day-care center. The joy of meeting fellow toys like Ken, Big Baby, and Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear quickly turns to fear when they learn that their new pals have some unfriendly plans for them! With the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Michael Keaton, and Jodi Benson. 103 min. C/Rtg G Toy Story 4 (2019)Dropped in the pecking order of Bonnie's toys, Woody looks for new purpose in mentoring her current favorite-Forky, an arts & crafts project she made from a spork. During a family RV road trip, the existentially confused Forky runs off... sending Woody on an adventurous chase tha