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Summary: Oh Come Off It - It's Great Fun!
Review: Note well that this movie will not be up against Dude, Where's My Car (joking) at the Oscars. It basically has a ridiculous plot which is an excuse for some of the years best laughs. Hilarious satire on the fashion and modelling world, with a few good gay, eating disorder and erection jokes thrown in for good measure. "Blue Steel" cracked up the whole cinema every time - as did his phone.....his baby....his friends....his equally stupid rival, Haarrn-zon and so on and so foth. Try to pick out all the cameos. You'll love it. Trust me. These other dodgy reviewers here are just over-the-hill prudes who miss their Casablanca.
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Summary: Close but no cigar
Review: Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Ben Stiller. I was very impressed with his works in There's Something About Mary, & Meet the Parents. I would have thought that Zoolander would be on-par with those offerings or perhaps, better. But I came out from the experience disappointed. Personally, I felt that the movie is more like a culmination of sketches. And if viewers get to experience those sketches separately, then, that would be super but the trickiness here was to put all of them together into a feature-length movie. And thus, it didn't quite pull off. I would have to say that this movie was about a movie of personality as it's the charms & personalities of those stars that made us sat through the ordeal. His portrayal of a pouting lip, vain, air head, & self centred super male model ran thin after a while. Secondly, there's the opportunity to identify as many celebrities as you can. I enjoyed the latter part thoroughly. The jokes were rather lame & cliches abound & ocassionally, it's funny but if you were expecting something of Farrelly bros.' works, then, viewers would be disappointed. Perhaps, Ben Stiller needs to work on a tighter script, & but thumbs up for his directorial debut.
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Summary: Almost-Amusing Hodgepodge That Strains To Entertain
Review: Ben Stiller's randomly witty fashion parody and cinematic miscarriage, Zoolander is a mixed blessing of a comical treat as it diligently exerts itself to make it's audience chuckle maybe a half-dozen times during the whole film. Its gratuitous absence of humor is not totally the film's fault, it does valiantly attempt with a sensory overload of gags to entertain its audience. However, Zoolander fails miserably at scoring any real laughs or any shred of a fluidly enjoyable atmosphere as it hastily plods through one agonizingly horrendous joke after another.Ham-fistedly aggressive with it's one-dimensional takes on a male-model's disposition to be an absolute moron, slightly droll perceptions of the evil corruptive power of the 80's pop classic "Relax", maddeningly insulting and condescending pandering assumptions of the audience's intelligence, hideously mind-bogglingly trite film references from the Bond Series, Oliver Stone's JFK, and others, and it's almost naive pre-pubescent trust that maximum effort with no viable content can produce a descent movie leaves Zoolander with a gigantic quality dearth of deficiency that may a make grown man cry in anguish as he watches it. Zoolander is merely "endowed" with amply offensive makeshift caricatures, repugnantly moronic comic-book innovations, and it's almost gleefully affectionate embrace of slapstick decadence. Maybe the forthcoming DVD may provide answers behind this unprecedented fiasco. Zoolander is only recommended for the morbidly fascinated and all self-afflicting masochists out there.
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Summary: I Must Be Taking Crazy Pills!
Review: Making an off-the-wall comedy with outlandish characters can be difficult to pull off (see 95% of the SNL movies), however Ben Stiller succeeds in Zoolander with a complementary cast that raises the bar and keeps the gags coming throughout this film. Some of the greatest laughs from Zoolander are lines worth repeating - "He's so HOT right now". Go watch this movie expecting to laugh and have a good time. It wasn't made to win an Oscar.
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Summary: Children, cover your eyes up??
Review: Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller. After seeing Meet the Parents I had high hopes for this film. Meet the Parents was a hilarious comedy in which Ben Stiller performed astoundingly. In Zoolander, the movie had it's funny parts, but, during scenes such as the massage parlor seen, is this really appropraite for some kids who will see this movie? Some kids that see it that are 10 or so that are allowed to see PG-13 movies because they are "not that bad" might not even know what is going on in this part. Although this movie was overall, a good movie, I do not suggest children in 6 or 7th grade and under to see this film.
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Summary: Noy's pick
Review: Well i thought the movie was funny. The best part of the movie was when Tyson Beckford was on. Ben Stiller is a very funny man.
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Summary: Stiller finally does something funny.
Review: I've seen all of Stillers movies after hearing about how great and funny they were, and left every one disappointed until this one. It delivers what's promised, good no brain fun and lots of it! Every other "dramedy" he's been in has, in my humble opinion, [was bad]. "Something about Mary" was too strange to be funny and "Meet the Parents" was going along good until the end and then it got lost in its seriousness. This movie doesn't do any of that, it gets serious for about 5 minutes then it gets back on track and goes for the laughs again. This movie is about an assassination attempt set up by the villian who needs someone who can't think for theirselves and can be controlled, who better than male models? They first think of Fabio but they decide he is too smart, see where its going? Enter Zoolander who is just right for the job. This movie is full of funny scenes and one liners (not the least of which is the one about Fabio being too smart for the job.) David Duchovney's role is hilarious recalling his "Agent Mulder" days because he is in the loop about the evils of the industry. And Stiller himself is very funny as the title character as is Owen Wilson as his equally dimwitted arch nemesis in the modeling world, the scene where they face each other on the stage is hilarious and not to be missed. In closing let me say if you like a good comedy with loads of straight from the gut laughs I would highly recommend this movie, it won't win an Oscar but it will make you laugh.
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Summary: Idiotic and contrived
Review: Ben Stiller tries his very best at this farcical look at the campy airheadness of male fashion models by writing and directing it. It's well meaningful, but all I see are tiresome toilet gags and plain stupidness, most noticeably by the leading man himself. No good one-liners, not enough stupidness for a good B-movie. If you want to see a good Ben Stiller comedy, try "There's Something About Mary," or "Meet The Parents." This doesn't qualify as a good Ben Stiller movie. It qualifies as a bad one. Avoid it at all costs.
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Summary: This Movie Sucks!!
Review: The only reason, it gets one star is for the effort it took the director and Ben Stiller to screw up such an easy thing. Just like the Saturday Night Live of today is but a shadow of the great old shows of 10-15 years ago, this movie is entirely flawed in its premise. We left the Theatre after about 10 minutes and Ben Stillers attempt at having some sort of an accent was pathetic. The cast members from SNL can always be counted on to be completely unfunny and lame (see "Corky Romano", another failure), but unfortunately Ben Stiller, whose career was looking up for once, now has to deal with the fallout of this movie disaster. Jeeeez, come on folks!
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Summary: A Funny Film that entertains.
Review: Ben Stiller always seems to have films that really hit or completely miss(There's Something About Mary and Meet The Parents as opposed to Mystery Men and Keeping The Faith). This film does both, but in the end I am giving it a positive review because it hits more than it misses. The plot is flimsy, and many of the scenes are downright stupid, but yet I found myself laughing in many of the scenes. Stiller is very funny as the dim bulb model, and Will Ferrell does a good job as the villian. The actor that makes the film work is Owen Wilson. As soon as is part gets bigger, the movie gets better and funnier. Wilson is a very good actor who also was hilarious in Meet The Parents. While this film wasn't great, it was still better than most of the live action comedies released this year.
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