Zoolander

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Summary: Fashion Industry
Review: This movie was so funny, especially if you knw the fashion industry but if you wear just anything and model life doesn't amaze you, you propobly won't like or understand this movie.

I got the dvd, the special features r great ... ...

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Summary: Review of Zoolander-so sad
Review: I was anxious to get Zoolander as I had enjoyed Ben Stiller and most of what he has done, especially "What About Mary" with Cameron Diaz. With such a good cast,including Will Ferrel from Saturday Night Live and Jerry Stiller in a major role and Anne Meara in a cameo, it was disappointing to see this mistake of a take off on the modeling business. I wanted so much to like it but it just was too silly and fell very short of being clever and witty.

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Summary: hilarious
Review: I watched this with my roommates. We laughed the whole way through, and talked about it all next day. The movie's well made with plenty of clever moments. I love the way the orange frappuchino cup flies at the screen during the explosion. And the way Zoolander and Hansel bat at the Apple computer like monkeys. And the way Zoolander has different names for his "looks" though they are really all the same. Sure, the male models are all idiots (I grant three of them the Darwin Award for removing themselves from the gene pool in the stupidest way), but the movie itself is pretty witty.

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Summary: Didn't laugh one time
Review: First off, it doesn't even deserve one star. This has got to be one of, if not THE worst movies I have ever seen. I did not laugh one time and could not even finish watching this awful movie. I can't imagine anyone spending money for this truly pitiful excuse for entertainment. Not only was the writing bad, but it was one product placement after another. Was this supposed to be a movie with a message or a feature length commercial? Ben Stiller was bad and should be ashamed to have ever written the script.

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Summary: A "shallow, dumb, vacuous moron" of a movie.
Review: There's a scene early in "Zoolander" in which a posse of male models pulls up to a gas station, after which a playfight ensues with windshield sponges and, soon after, gasoline pumps. Being that the movie portrays male models as idiots, one of them lights a cigarette, causing a gigantic explosion that wipes out everyone but the main character. Heaven forbid he should die, lest we not be able to witness the next hour and fifteen minutes of banality that awaits us. One might be tempted to ask, "Why not kill him now, thus putting the movie out of its misery?"

That being said, "Zoolander" is one of the most uninspired comedies ever made, an amalgam of fashion parody and social satire that goes wrong in so many ways at so many times, it's almost physically painful to watch. It's plot is easily the year's most mind-numbing, it's characters some of the most idiotic people played (surprisingly) by credible actors.

The film has a twin from earlier this year, "Josie and the Pussycats," which was one of the year's worst films. "Zoolander" is easily worse, tailoring its lifeless characters to a brain-dead plot that involves the recruiting of insipid male models in the major assassinations throughout the years. At the present, a major fashion corporation is in danger of losing its factory workers to a new child labor law in Malaysia, and thus fixates its plan of wiping out the prime minister on male model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller).

Stiller's presence onscreen as the halfwit title character is not a welcome sight, nor are such events as a male model awards show, in which Derek is stripped of his yearly award by newcomer Hansel (Owen Wilson). Enter dipstick reporter Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor), who's out for some dirt on fashion mogul Mugatu (Will Ferrell), in charge of brainwashing Derek's mind (does he even have one?). Derek and Matilda pair up, looking for answers to his whereabouts after he goes missing for a week... oh, does it really matter? Will anyone really care enough to pay attention?

My problem with "Zoolander" is simply this: it's completely mind-blowing for all the wrong reasons. After witnessing the atrocious assault on my patience in "Pussycats," I thought I could sit through anything, but this film takes stupidity to a whole new level, practically stripping the audience of its common sense as we watch its characters parade around in silly costumes and a humorless plot for what seems like an eternity. It's attempts at comedy are desperate and obvious, and makes for one of the most blatantly mindless movies in ages.

The cast takes on the challenge of looking like unrelentingly dimwitted fools in front of the camera, and anywhere else, this might serve as an outlet for some hearty laughs. But even Ben Stiller, playing Zoolander with all the talent he can muster, cannot make this one-dimensional character, or the equally sloppy material, worthy of one's time or patience. His annoying presence is rivaled by that of Wilson, whose character is equally denied a brain, and by Will Ferrell, who looks like a leftover sketch for Saturday Night Live.

My final question is this: why does a movie like "Zoolander" feel it necessary to blast us every two seconds with a star appearance? There are more cameos and "blink-and-you-miss-a-star" moments here than I can recall from other films, but the likes of Winona Ryder, David Bowie, Billy Zane, Jon Voight, or even Stiller's own parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, cannot save the film from being what it is: a "shallow, dumb, vacuous moron" of a movie that aims for the funny bone and misses by a mile.

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Summary: The dumming of America!
Review: ...

This was one of the worst movies pieces of teenage junk I have ever seen. Even my teenage son thought it was stupid and left.

I think I laughed once through this entire boring escapade - (I laughed at how pitiful the script was, how moronic the acting was, and how stupid I was for actually buying it!

You could tell they were trying to mimic Austin Powers comedy but it couldn't shine Ausin Power's shoes.

...there is less than five minutes of funny content in this whole movie. The problem is - they stretch it out to almost two hours! I guess because they kept trying to get you to laugh but continue to fail at it.

Give yourself a break and skip this one. This one goes on my top ten worst movie list.

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Summary: Hilarious movie about supermodel assassins
Review: This movie is great, but be warned. It's not high-brow comedy. It's not filled with intelligent dialogue or real people with real lives. Instead, this movie pokes a great deal of fun at the fashion model industry, and doesn't attempt to answer any deep questions or leave you with a better appreciation of life. What it does do is make you laugh. Ben Stiller is one of the funniest comics working today, and this movie shows just how funny he can be. I've heard that Ben had come up with a new face, which was his parody of the faces used by supermodels in magazine ads. His wife (Christine Taylor, who plays the reporter following Derek Zoolander around in the movie) told him to either do something with the face, or quit making the face. Thus, Zoolander came about.

In this movie, every political assassination in the past 100 years has been perpetuated by supermodels (because they're so vacuous and empty-brained and are easily hyp-mo-tized). Zoolander plays an aging male model who loses the title of Male Model of the Year to his rival played by Owen Wilson. The evil fashion designer Mugatu (played by Will Ferrell) hypnotizes Zoolander into killing a foreign prime minister that's interfering with his business. There are hilarious performances in this movie by Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Jerry Stiller (Ben Stiller's real-life dad), and of course Ben Stiller himself.

After seeing this movie, you'll never look at one of the faces put on by a supermodel the same way again. And you'll have a very hard time looking through magazines with a straight face.

One final thing...look for a great cameo by David Duchovny as one of the world's greatest hand models, who now is working to uncover the global conspiracy of assassinations by supermodels. Sound familiar? It's great.

Enjoy this movie. It's hard not to. But don't expect 'Ghandi' or 'My Dinner with Andre'. This movie does everything it can to be as irreverent and as silly as possible. And it definitely succeeds.

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Summary: Zoolander
Review: The mother of all stupid-funny movies. Directed, produced and co-written by Ben Stiller, this is a movie for everyone(everyone who has time to watch a film this stupid). It's a shame this is what comedies are coming to these days. Full of dumb humor and bad acting, it's fun for the whole family. It just seems that good old funny movies are going down hill.

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Summary: What's up your butts?
Review: first of all, take into consideration that i am 16. second i'm lookin on the reviews and one question comes to my mind, what's up your butts? (in reference to those complianing bunch that said this movie was a waste of money)
I found this movie INCREDIBLY funny and am planning to buy the DVD soon. granted, the movie had no depth and no purpose but does there have to be? if you're looking for some insight into the meaning of life in a movie there's nothing wrong with the movie, there's just something wrong with YOU. and as for one-liners more than i can think of! the comedy is witty and the delivery is flawless. the great part about the comedy here is that you dont have to have gotten a 1600 on the SAT to understand it. not a waste of money and certainly a great movie to get you laughing.
i see some of these people giving it 1 star, and analyzing the hell outta it. maybe that is what ruins the fun? like i said NO DEPTH. im a huge fan of SNL skits, Jay and Silent Bob movies and Ben Stiller. my advice to any viewer of this movie is to NOT OVER THINK IT! dont come in with any expectations and dont try to search for any profound message, just sit back and relax.

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Summary: Poor script choices mar otherwise funny movie
Review: "Zoolander", an affable satirical comedy about male models in the New York high fashion scene, is marred by some unfortunate script choices and a tendency to fixate on its own cleverness. Still, it is one of the funnier movies from 2001, a year that showed a further deterioration in the art of making screen comedies. We can only hope that this decline will be reversed one day.

Derek Zoolander [Ben Stiller], the hottest model around, is trying to win top honors in VH-1's Fashion Awards for the fourth year in a row. It's a good thing for him that he's really, really, really good-looking because he is also really, really, really dumb. When he loses to arch rival Hansel [Owen Wilson], he goes into a tail spin. He announces to his manager, Maury [Jerry Stiller], that he's quitting. Modeling is so shallow, he says, and he'd rather do something meaningful, such as founding The Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Don't Read Good and Want to Do Other Stiff Good Also. Maury must find a way to make him change his mind, because the kingpins of fashion plan to brainwash Derek and force him to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia, who has vowed to end child labor in his country. This idea, they reason, will be the beginning of the end of cheap labor and will ruin the industry.

Stiller, who also directed, makes Zoolander one of the funniest characters in ages. The wispy, Marilyn Monroe-like voice, the exaggerated facial expressions, the body language, and the fractured syntax of every phrase he utters made me laugh out loud. Also hysterical are Wilson and Ben's real dad, Jerry.

In expanding "Zoolander" from what was originally a brief mock documentary made in 1996, the writers made a decision so bad that it seems like something Derek himself would have thought of. What possessed them to make the victim the leader of a real country? It's not as though the movie has any political statements to make. The assassination attempt is merely a plot device. It doesn't work at all and changing it and one other element might have made "Zoolander" a real comic gem, rather than a movie that works just part of the time. That other element is something several recent comedies have been guilty of. Whenever the characters get serious or 'genuinely' emotional with each other, dreadful, faux film score music (always piano and violins!) starts playing quietly in the background. In the 'dumbing down' theory of film making, this is the signal to viewers that they are now to change their mood. I would suggest that such a musical cue in a comedy works only if it leads to a punch line. In "Zoolander" all it leads to is the next scene. It's extraneous and annoying.