Zoolander

Plot synopsis:
News footage datelined Kuala Lumpur: newly elected Prime Minister Hassan (Woodrow W. Asai) of Malaysia promises to increase the minimum wage and eliminate child labor. The screen rolls up to reveal a large, dimly lit space in a warehouse. Clothing designer Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) has been called on the carpet by a secret international cabal of fashion industry moguls. The cabal is disturbed because the new prime minister's policies will cut deeply into the fashion industry's profits. They direct Mugatu to assassinate the PM using a brainwashed agent -- someone who isn't too bright. Apparently they've done this sort of thing before. Mugatu reluctantly agrees (he'd prefer to concentrate on the upcoming show for his new collection), but wonders where he'll find someone dumb enough.Cut to a photo shoot where male model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is being made up while reporter Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor) interviews him for an article in Time magazine. Derek says he decided to become a model "the first time I went through the second grade," when he realized how good-looking he was. He shows Matilda a couple of the "looks" -- facial expressions -- he's best known for, including Blue Steel and the "softer" Le Tigre. They look exactly the same. The rest of the scene is intercut with footage of celebrities giving sound bites in praise of Derek Zoolander. Derek tells Matilda about Magnum, a new look he's been working on for 8 or 9 years, but says he isn't ready to show it to anyone.The TV coverage for the VH1 Fashion Awards starts, naturally, with the arrival of the key players. First to roll up is Derek, who we learn is three-time Male Model of the Year. He's defending his title against the hippie-ish Hansel (Owen Wilson), a fabulously successful rookie. Hansel arrives on a folding scooter and does tricks with a yo-yo as he walks down the red carpet. Next in are Mugatu, who's picketed by protesters supporting Prime Minister Hassan's fair wage laws, and Zoolander's agent, Maury Ballstein (Jerry Stiller, Ben's father) of Balls Models, who arrives in time to stop Derek from revealing anything about Magnum to a TV interviewer.Inside, Fabio accepts the "Slashie" award for the "best actor 'slash' model and not the other way around." When the Male Model of the Year is announced, Derek mishears the announcement and embarrasses himself by trotting up to accept Hansel's award. In the audience, Mugatu tells Maury that Derek is just the idiot he's looking for to resolve the Malaysian situation. Maury sadly agrees that Derek, now washed up, is "ready."Derek stumbles out of the awards ceremony, stares at his reflection in a puddle, and asks it who he is. (It doesn't know either.) Hansel rides by and taunts Derek. Derek walks through the city watching his billboard pictures changing to pics of Hansel while a Jumbotron TV replays his award gaffe. He gets home and crashes in his bunk; his three roommates are already asleep in adjacent bunks.Next morning, Derek's roommates Brint (Alexandre Manning), Rufus (Asio Highsmith), and Meekus (Alexander Skarsgård), who are also male models, sit around complaining about Hansel. Derek, sporting penguin-print feetie pajamas, interrupts the grouse-fest to wonder if they should be doing something more meaningful with their lives -- helping people. His roommies suggest that orange mocha frappuccinos will make it easier to sort out these important issues. Cut to the boys out for a drive with their drinks. They pull into a gas station and start a playful water fight with the windshield squeegees. Derek sees someone discarding a copy of Time and goes off to retrieve it. He's on the cover, but the coverage isn't kind: "Derek Zoolander: a model idiot?" In the background, the water fight has progressed into a (still playful) gasoline fight. Then one of the boys lights a cigarette and the resulting fireball kills all three of them.Derek gives the eulogy (or eugoogoly, as he pronounces it) at the triple funeral. He uses the opportunity to announce his retirement from modeling (though he's interrupted by the late arrival of Hansel and his entourage). On the way out of the cemetery (St. Adonis), he runs into Matilda, who is failing to persuade Mugatu to talk to her. She apologizes to Derek for the "harsh" Time story and blames her editor for the headline. She asks Derek to help her find background on Mugatu, but he brushes her off.At Balls Models, Derek tells Maury he wants to go home and reconnect with his family. He also wants to do something meaningful with his life; he dreams of teaching underprivileged children to read. Maury reminisces about Derek's beginnings in the business and how he couldn't turn left to save his ass. (He still can't.) He tells Derek that Mugatu wants to hire him, but he can't convince Derek not to retire.Cut to Coal Mining Country, Southern New Jersey. In a snakeprint suit with matching luggage, Derek catches up with his father (Jon Voight) and brothers outside the coal mine. He wants to work with them in the mines. His father is dismissive, but Derek insists.Back in the city, Mugatu is bitchy to a model ("I'm sorry, did my pin get in the way of your ass?") and tells Maury to get Derek back. Derek is doing a fetching but ineffectual turn at coalmining. At a bar after work, a TV commercial in which Derek appears as a mermaid ("mer-man!" Derek insists) is the last straw for his father and brothers. Although Derek pleads that all he ever wanted "was to make you proud of me, Pop," he's disowned and sent packing. In the parking lot, he asks the stars "who am I?" When his absurdly tiny cell phone rings he assumes it's God, but it's only Maury, calling about a fabulous new offer from Mugatu.In Mugatu's office, after some suggestive byplay between Mugatu and his assistant over an overly foamy latte, Derek is shown the fabulous new offer: an architect's model of the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids who Can't Read Good. Derek is incensed ("what is this? a center for ants?"), but allows Mugatu to placate him after they agree that the center needs to be at least ... three times bigger than the model.Matilda visits Balls Models to interview Maury about Mugatu; Maury claims to know nothing about him. He advises her to get a push-up bra.Meanwhile, Mugatu shows Derek the new collection he'll be representing: Derelicte, "inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores who make this wonderful city so unique." He introduces the tall and sinister Katinka Ingabogovinanana (Milla Jovovich), Derek's minder. She takes him to a very exclusive day spa, where he's to get a massage and brainwashing.Archie (Matt Levin), a flunky at Time who has the hots for Matilda, gives her a big pile of information he's gathered about Mugatu -- but reports that he's found nothing before 1995. A mysterious tipster whose hand is encased in an odd glass contraption calls Matilda and directs her to Pier 12, the location of the spa. She sneaks in and has an awkward conversation with Derek (who unlike Matilda is completely unembarrassed by his post-massage erection) before being thrown out by Katinka, who insults Matilda's wardrobe for good measure. The brainwashing sequence features lots of little animated Mugatus and explains why child labor is a good thing. It conditions Derek to kill the Malaysian prime minister -- who will be the guest of honor at the Derelicte show -- when he hears the '80s hit "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.A week later, Derek wakes up with a start in his bunk at home. Matilda's at the door; she's been looking for him for days. He doesn't quite believe that he was at the day spa that long, even when she shows him the date on a newspaper. He thinks she's coming on to him (which she denies) and turns her down. As she leaves, he mentions that wearing her hair pulled back is bad for her complexion, and performs a quick makeover of her 'do. She looks great (but startled), and wears her hair down for the rest of the movie.Katinka seems to have staked out Derek's place. She sits in her car muttering about how much she dislikes Matilda.Back in the Time office, Archie reports his latest discovery: Mugatu's male models "have a bad habit of dying young in freak accidents." Matilda realizes that Katinka is going to kill Derek and rushes off to find him, but the door person at the party he's attending won't let her in.At the party, Derek saunters around receiving congratulations from celebrities on winning the Derelicte gig. When Hansel bumps into him, he takes offense. Derek challenges Hansel to a "walk-off." Most of the party-goers repair to the old Members Only warehouse to watch the two models resolve their differences. Matilda catches up with Derek on the way, but he won't take the time to listen to her.A crowd gathers at the warehouse, where there's a runway and a "corner" for each contestant, as in a boxing ring. David Bowie offers to officiate. "This'll be a straight walk-off, old school rules," he says. "First model walks, second model duplicates, then elaborates."They take turns walking down the runway imitating each other's moves until Hansel comes up with something Derek can't reproduce: he removes his underwear without taking off his pants. Derek hurts himself trying to pull that off.Riding home with Matilda, Derek shrugs off her warning that Katinka is out to get him because he's despondent at losing another contest to Hansel. He confesses that Hansel could have beaten him with a much simpler move: a left turn. Derek has never been able to hang a louie. As Matilda tries to reassure him, she gets another call from her tipster, who wants to meet her at St. Adonis Cemetery. Derek comes along.Derek and Matilda stroll the cemetery reading gravestones. Derek notices that none of the male models buried there lived past 30. The tipster turns up and notes that he himself made it past 30. He won't tell them his name. He says they've stumbled on something big: the fashion industry has used male models to carry out "every major political assassination over the last 200 years," including Lincoln (who was targeted because abolishing slavery wiped out the free labor the fashion industry relied on) and Kennedy (because the Cuban embargo cut off the supply of Sansabelt slacks).Matilda drops her flashlight and the tipster absent-mindedly reaches for it with his left hand, which is covered with an odd glass contraption. Derek recognizes the hand as that of J.P. Prewitt (a scruffy David Duchovny) -- "the world's greatest hand model!" The glass contraption is a home-made hyperbaric chamber meant to preserve Prewitt's hand. Prewitt explains that models make good assassins because they're in good shape, they're famous enough to get past security, they don't think for themselves, and they're used to following directions. He also mentions that when they've completed their missions, assassin-models are killed. Just then, Katinka and some goons start shooting at them. Prewitt tells them to get hold of Maury Ballstein's computer; Maury has protected himself by documenting all he knows about the fashion-industry cabal and the assassinations. In parting, Prewitt offers Derek some encouraging words about Blue Steel and the long-anticipated Magnum.In search of a hiding place where no one -- and especially Katinka -- will think to look for them, Derek and Matilda go to Hansel's. Hansel is willing to let them in, but first, he makes Derek explain why he's "been acting so messed-up towards me." Derek admits that he feels threatened by Hansel. Hansel says he's been acting messed-up towards Derek because he's intimidated by Derek's reputation, and in fact Derek inspired him to become a male model. "I freakin' worship you, man."Hansel shows them around his loft, which is huge and full of friends. The three of them sit down together and get high on "tea," and Hansel asks Matilda why she dislikes models so much. She confesses that when she was young she was the fat kid in her class, and she used to pore over the photos in fashion magazines yearning to be thin like the models. Eventually she became bulimic, for which she blames the models. Hansel and Derek don't see the problem with throwing up after meals -- they do it themselves -- and want to know whether it caused guys to show more interest in her. She admits that her sex life is pretty much nonexistent. Hansel suggests they "give in to the power of the tea" and get naked. They all -- including Hansel's friends -- have a lot of sex.Next morning, Derek tells Hansel he's falling for Matilda. Matilda comes in and reminds them that they have to get hold of the evidence of the assassination plot before the Derelicte show starts in three hours.Derek and Hansel sneak into Maury's office dressed as maintenance men. Matilda instructed them to find the files on Maury's computer (an orange iMac) and email them to her, but they can't figure out how to turn the thing on. Before leaving for the show, Derek gives Hansel his tiny cell phone, asking him to give it to Matilda if anything happens to Derek. Hansel, having grasped that the files (he's thinking paper) are inside the computer, takes the computer and heads for Derelicte himself. Meanwhile, Matilda checks in at the office, where Archie at last has the goods on Mugatu: Mugatu was kicked out of Frankie Goes to Hollywood before they made it big with "Relax." He broke into fashion by inventing the piano-key necktie.When she figures out that Mugatu used "Relax" to trigger the conditioning that will induce Derek to kill the Malaysian prime minister, Matilda rushes to the fashion show. Backstage, Derek confronts Maury about the assassination plot, causing Maury to have a change of heart. Derek hits the runway as Matilda arrives and tangles with Katinka. She tells Hansel about the trigger. "Relax" starts playing and Derek's conditioning kicks in, but Hansel has broken into the DJ booth. During a break-dance fight between Hansel and the DJ, the music switches from "Relax" to Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" and back. Every time "Relax" comes on, Derek advances down the runway toward the prime minister. Hansel saves the day by shutting down the sound system just as Derek gets his hands around the prime minister's neck.Mugatu publicly accuses Zoolander of trying to kill the prime minister. Hansel comes to Derek's defence, revealing the brainwashing and claiming that he has evidence in the computer -- which he proceeds to drop from a catwalk above the stage, expecting to find paper files in the debris. Mugatu thinks the evidence has been destroyed and he's home free, but Maury changes sides and calls his wife to bring his backup files. Mugatu denounces Derek ("Blue Steel, Ferrari, Le Tigre? They're the same face! Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"). Then, determined to complete the mission, Mugatu throws a shuriken (a stylish M-shaped one) at the prime minister. Derek jumps in front of the PM, turns left (for the first time ever) to face the shuriken, and unleashes Magnum. The Magnum look is so powerful that everyone who sees it is amazed and the shuriken stops dead and falls to the floor. Everyone has something to say about Magnum's beauty and general awesomeness. Even Derek's father, watching the show on TV back home in coal country, is finally proud of him: "That's my kid. That's my son!" Magnum looks exactly like Blue Steel, Ferrari, and Le Tigre.Cut to the future: Derek, Maury, and Hansel are at the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good (which, it turns out, is a modeling school and which looks much like the architect's model -- but much more than three times larger). They're making a promotional video. Matilda turns up with baby Derek Jr., who has just started to display his first "look." It's exactly like Blue Steel, Ferrari, Le Tigre, and Magnum.

Tags: comedy, murder, stupid, bleak, cult, flashback, absurd, psychedelic, satire, brainwashing, entertaining

Review:
But whatever it is, it makes for a terrifically fun movie.Ben Stiller is Derek Zoolander, three-time male model of the year, whose brainpower never quite caught up to his really, really ridiculous good looks.
Directed by and starring Ben Stiller, Zoolander is a very funny movie, if you know what to expect.
Audiences went into Zoolander expecting another Ben Stiller, Meet the Parents-type comedy, and when they got an offbeat movie about the fashion industry's plot to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia, they didn't know how to react.
To enjoy Zoolander, one has to forget all expectations and see the movie for what it is supposed to be: ridiculous.Derek Zoolander (Stiller) is the fashion industry's number one male model, but his career is slouching and boy beauty Hansel (Owen Wilson) provides tough competition.
Jerry Stiller, like Wilson, always manages to find humor in every role he plays, and in Zoolander this remains especially true.
Yes, it's one of the dumbest films you'll ever see, but it's supposed to be stupid, a satire on the shallow people and world of male fashion models.Ben Stiller is outstanding as "Derek Zoolander," the brainless model who's number one male model status is upended by newcomer "Hansel," played by Owen Wilson.
In light of Wilson's recent real-life drug problems, I couldn't help but think "how can these actors play absurd roles like this and be normal?" It's almost understandable by so many in the film business are whacked!
Of course, it's stupid overall, but it's a spoof, like the Austin Powers films.Film fans and celebrity geeks will enjoy all the cameos in here, along with the wild outfits - male and female - and all the goofy looks on the faces, mainly Stiller's poses.
The movie's main characters did great jobs, and had good charisma between them, there were tons of other actors putting in small bits (some of which were amazingly funny, I laughed out loud in a few parts, and I almost never do that).
In Entertainment Weekly, Ben Stiller described this feature-length adventure of the moronic male model he created for the VH1 Fashion Awards as "MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE meets EYES OF LAURA MARS." Me, I can sum it up in two words:  "AUSTIN Posers."  No, better yet, I'll boil it down to one word: "endearing."  That's right, endearing!
Derek (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) are the worlds greatest two models.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson have teamed up on so many films and still haven't been able to be funny.
"Zoolander" is no exception, where they compete as top male models in a dumb and stupid plot that results in a bunch of forced jokes, regretful performances, and overdone performances that just simply are not funny or daring in any way, shape, fashion, or form.
Previously liking the principal cast of this film, (including Owen Wilson and Will Ferrel), I was more than a little dissapointed after seeing what a clumsy mess Zoolander turned into.
Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a washed-up model who has been brainwashed to kill a foreign Prime Minister.
Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, a male model who is far from the sharpest tool in the shed, which is showcased in the most hilarious of ways.
Suddenly, Derek's world as THE top model is disrupted when Hansel, brilliantly played by Owen Wilson, arrives on the scene and disrupts Zoolander's throne with Hansel's seemingly effortless, avant garde approach to male modeling.This is my very first review, so I apologize for the lack of well-articulated perspective.
The film was so bad that my wife actually got angry in the middle of it, asking how it was possible that this film was ever produced.I have nothing against Ben Stiller, in fact I think he is one of the most brilliant comedy-actors around, but in this film he not only misses the target, he shoots blanks!Maybe it's just me not being able to relate to the humor the film is built around, but on the other hand I am a guy that laughs fairly easy, and understands most jokes I see on screen.
Well, watching Zoolander probably isn't going to give you any accurate representation of what being a male model is really like but it's definitely a hilarious spoof on modeling and fashion industry.
His role this film shows character diversity in Stiller not seen in his past films and it works.The sheer stupidity of the main characters Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and rival male model Hansel (Owen Wilson) are the primary sources of the genuine laughs found in Zoolander.
Set in modern day New York City, the plot revolves around a sinister fashion designer named Mugatu (Will Ferrell) and his plot to brainwash male model Derek Zoolander to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
One example of the hilarious stupidity in this movie: Early on in the movie there is a `Male Model of the Year' awards ceremony Zoolander, being accustomed to winning the award several years in a row runs to the stage despite the fact Hansel's name had been announced to accept the award.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are compliment each others roles very well and are extremely funny together.Bottom Line- 7.5 out of 10: Better than `fair' but not great, lots of laughs to be had but it relies on the same `stupid' humor the entire movie.
Stiller Sr., Stiller Jr., Wilson, and Ferrell are quite capable of being funny, and a spoof of the fashion industry is a good idea, but the movie is ruined by a terrible script.
...and this is one of the worst movies ever.I really don't want to disappoint people who like it but I HAVE NO CHOICE!In my opinion this movie should be banned,because there's a big possibility of getting as dumb as Derek is.I literally felt my brain cells exploding during watching it.Ben Stiller had to be in really bad situation when he took this role.
God damn how can this film be avg`ng 6.1-10 some one said its stupid funny well its stupid thats for real but funny isnt a word id use to describe what I saw :(Zoolander belongs in the zoo in the monkeys cage where they can play frizbee with it :)After watching this movie I think my cat left home he has never been seen since :(  -3 out of 10.
When the two worlds meet at the "Male Model of the Year" awards, Zoolander is left wondering if there is more to life than being "really really really good looking" and tells his manager he wants to start a "school for kids who can't read.good".
where is my receipt.....and is there anyway I can return it....??ok...Ben Stiller = funny Owen Wilson = funnyBut this is the stupidest movie I have ever seen...well not the stupidest(and trust me I have seen quite a few).
The plot is old and outdated and out performed lately by other movies(i.e. austin powers), the characters, playing the role of dumb models aren't even remotely believable.
Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), an immensely famous yet immensely dumb male model at the end of his career, is brainwashed to kill the prime minister of Malaysia, by one of the only people who never hired him, Mugatu (Will Ferrell).
The complex world of the male modeling profession, including the inherent rivalries and the significant impact the industry has had on history is explored and revealed in `Zoolander,' a brilliant comedy directed by and starring the versatile Ben Stiller.
But like Chaplin and Fields before him, it will undoubtedly-- and unfortunately-- be some time before his true genius is widely and sufficiently recognized.Owen Wilson, as well, is a talented actor/writer/performer who has demonstrated his own unique style in such films as `Bottle Rocket,' `Shanghai Noon' and `Meet the Parents,' and here makes Hansel the perfect counterpart of Derek Zoolander.
He brings Hansel to life with facility, and makes him a memorable character.The supporting cast includes Will Ferrell (Mugatu), Jerry Stiller (Ballstein), Milla Jovovich (Katinka), Matt Levin (Archie) and features cameos by David Duchovny, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Vince Vaughn, Jon Voight, Billy Zane, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, David Bowie, Andy Dick and Fabio.
Owen Wilson is flawless as Zoolander's flaky new-wave rival Hansel (he's so hot right now) and Will Ferrell makes the most of a criminally-brief amount of screen time in his own inimitable way.
Ben Stiller seems to think that fame is rather silly and he shows his contempt for it in the form of male super-model Derek Zoolander.
The intellect-challenged, self-absorbed Zoolander pouts, struts and mispronounces wonderfully throughout this comedy that's aimed at being stupid.The "plot-line" begins when Derek is targeted by a clandestine fashion alliance in need of a dim-witted, male super-model.
Stiller plays a world-renowned male fashion model who is brainwashed to kill the new Malaysian Prime Minister.
It is fun to search for all these tidbits, see all the cameos of people like Stephen Dorff or David Bowie and my absolute favorites were Zoolanders quote of "The Godfather" and the surprisingly intelligent side blow to "2001 - A space odyssey"!Furthermore, as a child of the 80s I really enjoyed the homage which was shown to this decade in the movie, especially the music.
It is dumb, but with such infectious comedic energy by Stiller and friend Owen Wilson poured on screen, it is funny enough to look past how ridiculous it gets.
This film follows acclaimed fashion model Derek Zoolander (played by Ben Stiller), a three-time consecutive award winner who is on his way to claiming his fourth prize as "Model of The Year".
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson cook up an infectious comic energy in nearly scene they both meet on screen, and the energy unravels into funny laugh-out-loud sequences including a fashion showdown scene, another segment owing homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey', and the final scene showcasing their attempts at turning the tables on the comically antagonistic Will Ferrell.
Zoolander is a comedy loaded with laughter and infectious charisma, and Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Will Ferrell deserve the credit for this.
And, Plot, acting, visuals all came together -- even though the story dances on the edge of absurdity.Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson are excellent in this film.
Every time it did 'go deeper' that moment was immediately shot down by some goofy joke, further proving that the movie was trying to be anything but deep or emotional.Overall Zoolander is a lot of fun.
A critique of designer fashion and America's image-focused celebrity culture where the not-particularly-glamorous Ben Stiller has fun playing a male model.
The 2001 film ZOOLANDER is a comedy about two male models, the eminent Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and the up-and-coming Hansel (Owen Wilson), who with the help of an investigative reporter (Christine Taylor) must thwart the plans of a megalomaniac fashion designer (Will Ferrell) to maintain third-world child sweatshop labour.
Most of the humour in the film comes from Stiller's portrayal of Zoolander, a dimwitted manchild with a heart of gold, and the fact that the actor playing this male model isn't remotely glamorous.
I would have rated this rather higher only five or six years ago, but now the movie feels painfully awkward at times.If there is one aspect of the film that has stayed fresh, it's Owen Wilson's Hansel.
And sure, ZOOLANDER still has a lot of funny dialogue, and the audience can pleasantly sense how much fun Stiller, Wilson and Ferrell had while shooting it, but this isn't an especially great film and even its prominence in pop culture seems to be on the wane..
If we define comedy as the genre of movies dedicated to making people laugh, then Zoolander is probably one of the best comedies of all times.
When a scheming fashion designer named Mogatu unleashes a plot to assonate the Prime Minister of Milasia he brainwashes male model Derek Zoolander to do the job for him.
What we have here is a parody of the fashion industry that will prove hilarious to some and painfully stupid to others, but who can honestly say that they wouldn't want their children going to the Derek Zoolander Centre for Kid who can't Read Good?
Ben Stiller is hilariously stupid as Zoolander, Owen Wilson is equally as stupid and funny as Hansel, Zoolander's competition who seems to be parodying Doors front man Jim Morrison more than a male supermodel.
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Christine Taylor star as the leads along with many talented actor making cameos in a film that makes no sense.
Bin Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, the world's premier male model and Owen Wilson plays Hansel, the up and coming star threatening Zoolanders status.
As a lot of comedies, Zoolander is disappointing and doesn't live up to the expectation.The story is rather enjoyable to follow and the fashion theme was interesting and had potential, but it isn't crazy enough and the gags, too rare and not enough striking, struggle to crack the viewer a smile which is prohibitive for a comedy, some are actually really bad.Apart from Mugatu played by the inevitable and always excellent Will Ferrell, the characters lack consistency, a characteristic that, in the end, applies well to the movie in its entirety.
I thought that Zoolander was going to be a very mediocre comedy.But I was very wrong.The movie is extremely funny and I could not stop laughing with it.There are a lot of great cameos.I'm not going to say the people who make them to don't ruin the surprise.Ben Stiller is very funny and he always makes me laugh.The movie works very well as a satire to the fashion world.Zoolander is not the best movie in the history of the cinema;but it made me laugh a lot and I had a great time watching it.So,I recommend it if you wanna see a really funny movie.Stiller shows he has a lot of talent for comedy.Rating:8.
That said, I feel that Zoolander is a very funny, entertaining film, especially considering that it's a relatively current film.When I first saw it on TV (I rarely go to the movies anymore - too many bad ones are getting good reviews) I thought I would only watch it for a few minutes.
Hi, first i would like to say that i gave this movie a 10 because it is just hilarious, i find Ben Stillers acting more humorous every time i watch "Zoolander".Other great actors including Owen Wilson, and Will Ferrel could not have a done a better job with their Characters.
I didn't find Ben Stiller to be very funny in this movie.
This movie has many good memories to recall and when I watch it I think of all the good times my family and I had while watching it.I know that sounds dumb, but ohh well.This is one of my favorite movies.One of the parts that we find hilarious is when hansel and derek are doing the walk off, they make the same faces and everything.I think that owen Wilson and ben stiller work very well together..
All male supermodel Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) wants at the moment is to discover whether there's more to life than "being really really really ridiculously good-looking." But badguy fashion designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell, in an inspired, hilarious charicature) has other ideas: he's looking for the dumbest guy in the fashion industry to assassinate the president of Malaysia.It strings its gags together with the form of an espionage thriller: the plot of which has badguy Mugatu looking for a really Laugh-out-loud comedy performances, fun satire of modelling industry and terrific chemistry between duo Stiller and Owen Wilson.It has enough terrific lines and moments that a group of friends will see it together and feel like repeating the lines to each other for weeks on end.
Ben Stiller plays "Derek Zoolander", a 3 time "Male Model of the Year" award winner, when his streak of wins is stopped by Owen's character, Hansel, he starts to doubt his career and wants to go back home with his father and brothers as a mine worker.
It's a peculiar character for Ben Stiller and that's exactly why it works, not to mention his laser-focus dedication to the character (which also includes directing the movie) and it's also refreshingly gentle-minded: The satirical send-ups of the fashion industry and male models aren't hard-biting, which makes the whole thing go down smoothly.
But, it's also good for a few laughs and is a very amiable time-passer filled with lots of amazing cameos.The film is about a narcissistic idiot male model, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller).
However, the film is still works quite well because it is still quite funny and pokes a lot of fun at the fashion/modeling industry.
Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a fashion icon who's stupidity matches his Blue Steel looks.
Now having seen it numerous times it gets funnier and funnier with each viewing to the point that I'm laughing even before the jokes arrive.A clueless fashion model Derek Zoolander (Stiller) is brainwashed into assassinating the prime minister of Malaysia in order to stop him banning child labour laws that the fashion world needs for cheap materials.
Derek Zoolander is a dim-witted, but well meaning male model who is brainwashed into a plot to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) finds his life turned upside down when he fails to defend his male model of the year title (losing to Hansel - Owen Wilson).
"Zoolander" stands out in Ben Stiller's sometimes uneven film career as one of his most memorable movies.
I see that another Zoolander film is in the works right now with Ben Stiller repeating his character of the brain dead male model.
Although Zoolander's gags occasionally fall flat i think most people will get a portion of laughs of all kinds at Ben Stiller's and Owen Wilson marvelous characters..
The character of Derek Zoolander represents the vapid male model of today and is hilariously portrayed by Ben Stiller.