Individuals pushing us all to boycott Tropical Thunder due to the inclusion and offensiveness of the word “retard” are missing the boat.

When it comes to offensive gems, this movie is a rich, rich mine. Everything is offensive and most of it is really funny. The whole thing is off the rails. There are stupid bits that just hurt a little. I really don’t know how to make 30 feet of fake intestine humorous. While other bits are so weird that your brain melts just a l’il bit, specifically Tom Cruise seriously brings on the freaky.

However, Jack Black in a teeny black speedo is over the line. Seeing his penis, in profile in said speedo, for long periods of time is painful. Watching him dig around in it has scarred me for life. I am not sure that is just the most offensive thing in the film but right up there on the list of most offensive things - period.

The biggest universe sized WRONG… Matthew McConaughey plays the most mature person in the movie.

I can’t emotional parse that thought. It is like I understand each word but when you put them together - well - it is just incomprehensible.

I don’t want to give the impression that I didn’t enjoy it. I had a great time. Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler type movies are never my favorite. I tend to skip most of them. However, Robert Downey Jr. is on my must see list. SO I was torn. Fortunately he was amazing in this. From his first faux film trailer at the start to his climatic return to a blond, blue-eyed Aussie, he was perfect. All the cast were spot on great. As an audience, we all laughed groaned, screamed at one point, hid our eyes and covered our ears at different spots. We were entirely sucked in, which is the goal of movies.

But back to the boycott thing, calling people names and making fun of a minority to be hurtful is bad. (duh) Characters say and do bad things in movies. Without that happening there would be no conflict - no villains and therefore, no story. War, murder, and rape are all offensive and wrong yet are at the heart of many stories. The boycotters won’t see the film and will therefore never realize that the people using that word aren’t trying to be hurtful. In fact, the movie portrays them all as such idiots that no sane person would value anything any of them ever had to say, let alone how they choose to say it.

So, really, the boycotters and the movie makers are on the same page