Zoolander

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Summary: Hee hee hee!
Review: This will be a classic.
I like Ben Stiller. He always does silly movies (think, Something About Mary) but he is original and deeper than people give him credit for (Reality Bites, for example).
Let's see, Zoolander is about a vain, stupid male-model who realizes that there is more to being really, really, really good-looking. When he notices his career beginning to go downhill, and then when his male-model buddies die in an explosion accident (a very funny scene, actually, featuring Wham's "Wake Me up Before you Go-go" and orange mocha frappucinos), he retires and decides to dedicate his career to the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good. Coincidentally, Mugatu, the one designer who has not hired Zoolander wishes to feature him in his newest line of clothing, Derelicte, as well as brainwash him into assassinating the new Malaysian prime minister who has outlawed child labor... Okay, while the plot isn't everything this film features a lot of memorable scenes (the Zoolander vs. Hansel walk-off, featuring Michael Jackson's "Beat It"). Acting is overexaggerated and goofy but I think it is appropriate for this satire. Satire, but it is not too preachy, as in, "Models are so superficial, everyone's beautiful on the inside." The point's clear so Stiller does not try to drive it in. Rather, he focuses more on the silliness and fun in this movie. And, by the way, the soundtrack's great, too.
Watch/buy this light-hearted film. It is well worth it!

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Summary: A True Classic
Review: This movie is one of my all time favorite comedies. Stiller and Wilson are a perfect comedic duo. There won't be a minute in this movie where you not laughing your @ss off.

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Summary: Everybody likes their own thing...
Review: This movie is no exception. From what I can see... you love it or you hate it. I loved it. Some people I know hated it.

Derek Zoolander is stupid, but funny. Him and Hansel are both models and competeing. It has it's moments. It may not be movie of the year, but it definitely had it's moments. The walk-off, mine scene, and numerous others had me laughing alot.

Rent this one. It's a real test to see if you like moronic humor.

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Summary: DUMB
Review: this movie was so stupid. i maybe cracked a smile once, MAYBE. out of the 3 other people who watched this movie with me, exactly 0 people thought it was good. it'll be going on eBay.

i love ben stiller, he absolutely cracks me up. owen wilson is pretty funny too, but this movie has a dumb plot (if you could call it that) and dumb, corny humor. ben stiller is hilarious in 'there's something about mary' and 'meet the parents' because he is NOT TRYING TO BE. i felt as if the actors were trying too hard to be silly and it was just not working.

if you want to see movies that truly make you laugh and have funny plots, see 'meet the parents' and 'there's something about mary' instead. don't waste anything on this movie.

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Summary: Wilson's and Stiller's Corniest movie together
Review: This movie ought to be the most retarted movie a guy couldever see. I mean seriously STiller took it to the x-treme. If I were that actor I'd be using my movie making money to buy me some acting lessons for beginers because he surely do not know how to act. And Wilson uyou made it worse encouraging him in acting in that movie. How dare you. Not only did he make Stiller embrassing but himself too. So I wonder why they even bothered to sell this movie to me garage is worth more. I'd be more entertained by staring at a plain white wall. This dumb movie is not worth buying.

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Summary: Are you guys stupid?
Review: Anybody who gave this film less than a 4 ought to goe baka two za skool.

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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: THis is a great movie. Ben Stiller is a wonderful character and I enjoy watching him.

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Summary: INANE BUT HAS SOME BRILLIANT MOMENTS
Review: Ben Stiller wrote, co-directed and worked in a movie that is as empty and devoid of content as the industry it portrays, which could perhaps have been the very point. The vein of the movie is very AustinPowers-like, although the jury is still out on which ones are funnier.

The premise of Zoolander is a rip -- a super model called Zoolander (Stiller) with IQ equivalent to his shoe-size finds himself at a cross-roads in life when he has a contender challenge his leadership position (Wilson). This makes him a good candidate to be hired as an assassin.

Makes for a fabulous ground to poke some fun at fashion and advertising industries, and there's a bevy of barbs that produce a handful of genuinely funny moments. Stiller makes more faces in this one flick than he must have made in his entire career, and its hilarious!

If you watch the flick after a Merchant Ivory or Michael Mann item, you'll be disappointed. It's light-hearted fun and in general I believe it succeeds. The pace of the movie is good overall, although on average the first half has more genuine laughs than the second, the latter getting exceedingly unbelievable and situational in content.

Yet, a pretty interesting rental for some light fun. Would I want to own this? I wonder.

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Summary: Merman! Merman!
Review: Zoolander, the second film written and directed by Ben Stiller, is a very ridiculous and silly film. Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, an absurdly foolish male model at the top of the business. He's in the best position, career wise, when Hansel [Owen Wilson] enters the industry and steals Zoolander's place as male model of the year--an award that Zoolander had the honor of holding for three years, almost four, in a row. When asked in his acceptance speech whom he admires, Hansel answers, "Sting...Sting would be another person who's my hero. The music that he's made over the years--I don't really listen to it---but the fact that he's making it...I respect that." Owen Wilson is the one that really makes this movie funny. He's funnier than is Ben Stiller--he's a better actor, too. Zoolander is Ben Stiller's and Owen Wilson's funniest movie together--their senses of humor are perfectly harmonized with one another. Though it is funny, there are still some parts of the film that go beyond humor into sheer idiocy--what with the assassination of the prime minister of Malaysia and all. Though the film is often cited as stupid and pointless, I thought it was really cool that David Bowie made a cameo. Zoolander and Hansel are obviously sexually ambiguous--they are male models, yes?--and Bowie is known for his feminine masculinity. Anyhow, I thought that a very commendable and intelligent thing to be added. Overall, Zoolander is a funny movie. Not meant to be taken too seriously, at least Stiller and Wilson know what it takes to make people laugh--stupid brainwashed male models mispronouncing words and stuff.

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Summary: you should see it just for Stiller's modeling faces!
Review: I love this movie! Ben Stiller is a decidely handsome man, and to see him hamming it up as Derek Zoolander, a not-too-bright male model, with this intense look he calls "Blue Steel", is on the edge of believable. I still laugh when I think of a billboard for Feria hair color staring three faces with intense baffling expressions -- which is just barely parodying the real ad!

After losing a male modeling award to the dreaded Hansel and his 3 best friends die in a terrible accident, Derek retires from modeling. But he gets a call from Mugatu, a fashion designer who never hires him, to star in an upcoming show. Mugatu brainwashes Derek into killing the prime minister of Malaysia so he can continue to run sweatshops with child labor there.

Starring Stiller's father Jerry and wife Christine Taylor, this satire is hilarious, full of visual gags that are very witty in today's media-saturated world.