Stephen T
The trailer has the only good joke in the entire movie, the rest is just sheer boredom, Unfortunate since I enjoyed the first movie so much...
Michael Ledo
Our two super models are lured out of retirement by Billy Zane. They go to Rome where they are used and work with the INTERPOL fashion police (Penélope Cruz) to discover who is killing the world's pop stars (Justin Bieber dies in first scene). Zoolander (Ben Stiller) wants to become a dad again to his plus size son (Cyrus Arnold) in an orphanage. He is the target in an idiotic plot which says it really was Adam and Steve in the Garden of Eden.Okay, the film was stupid. It spoofs other films by taking scenes from them, films like Star wars, Omen, Silence of the Lambs, and Bond films. The fun part of the film was watching all the stars in ridiculous roles, most playing themselves, like Sting, Katy Perry, Billy Zane, Kate Moss, Tommy Hilfiger, and Susan Boyle flipping off the media. Other stars had bit roles as other people such as John Malkovich and Kristen Wiig.There was scenes to laugh at and other scenes to groan at. If you like "Dumb and Dumber" humor, this has it.Guide: 1 F-word. No sex or nudity. Some crude humor.
Sean Lamberger
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are back on the runway as male models Derek Zoolander and Hansel, perhaps sporting a few extra wrinkles around the eyes. The original Zoolander was a sleeper hit, pulling a shocking number of laughs from what seemed like a very thin concept, and its delayed sequel, unfortunately, pales in comparison. Like many folllow-up efforts from the same genre (Austin Powers and The Hangover, I'm looking at you here) Zoolander 2 falls into the trap of constantly re-hashing the gags that worked the first time. Why innovate when the well's right there waiting for your return, after all? What new material it does bring to the screen is often good for a chuckle, but not deep enough to mine for richer material. Benedict Cumberbatch's gender-bending role as a competing supermodel is a great example. We get about three minutes of big laughs from the character, but then he's spent and is cast aside. Even the returning faces seem lighter and less interesting, particularly Will Ferrell's big-haired fashion mogul, Mugatu. They're propped up with sight gags and cheap one-liners, but there's no masking the lack of inspiration in their writing and performance. Humor arrives in sprinkles throughout this film, like a series of not-quite-ready pitches for an upcoming episode of SNL, but that's not good enough to make up for a bland, obvious storyline and an aimless, meandering pair of central character arcs. Pointless and under-cooked, or maybe over-cooked, considering how long it was left to incubate. Whatever the cause, it's a swing and a miss.
merelyaninnuendo
Zoolander 2Zoolander 2 isn't worth considering a movie let along a funny one and addition to that it comes off more disappointing coming under from Ben Stiller's shed.