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Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tim Allen and Tony Shalhoub in uniform panicking on an alien planet

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It focuses on an ordinary store clerk who, it is discovered, has never had sex.

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But therein liesTropic Thunder’s true, chaotic, comedic genius.

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