Much like 'The Watch', 'Zoolander' sounds like it'll be better than it was. It's another Ben Stiller led comedy, and many other regulars are along for the ride. Owen Wilson and Will Farrell are also main characters, with Christine Taylor including the occasional touch of sanity (though less and less as the movie progresses). Stiller is playing a male model, who is also a moron, and the plot follows his nonsensical adventures.
It's not bad, but it's missing something that some of these other movies do far better. The stupidity feels dumb stupid too often, rather than funny stupid, you know? I preferred other ones like 'Blades of Glory' and 'Anchorman', but it's not as bad as 'The Watch' was, so that's something.
Don't get me wrong (why are you always getting me wrong? You never get me right, nobody understands me! *Cries*) - I enjoyed watching it, and it was funny, it's just that I saw 'Tropic Thunder' again the other day and that was better.
Most of the comedy was based around how stupid the models were, and the ridiculousness of the industry. These are both valid points, but two notes don't make a song (unless, I guess, the start of the 'Jaws' theme?) Stiller and Wilson did well, as did Will Farrell, who plays Mugatu, a manic fashion designer who invented the piano key tie. It's totally absurd, and this does work sometimes. As always, I preferred the first half, but the concluding scene where Derek was trying to kill the Malaysian Prime Minister was fun. Very watchable. Oh yeah, and David Duchovny was in this too (though only for a moment). I thought it was him, and I just checked, and it was. His scene had quite an 'X-Files' feel to it too (set in a graveyard, dark lighting, conspiracies being revealed).
Zoolander: 47.4