Zoolander 2 (2016)

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	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Ben Stiller (The Cable Guy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
	Actors: Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder, Mystery Men), Owen Wilson (Armageddon), Penélope Cruz (Blow)
	Country: USA, I
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 20.07.2018, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: When fashion calls them, Derek (Stiller) and Hansel (Wilson) are re-united after 15 years following different paths.
Review: The original Zoolander is a monument of "n'importe quoi", a French term that comes to my mind to describe this absurd Ben Stiller humor that culminated with Dodgeball in 2004. Trying to repeat the same success 15 years later was risky, see Dumb and Dumber 2, and turned out not to work at all for me. The gags repeated from the first movie to create a link and please the fans (the orgy, the look...) don't work anymore, and the new gags are distilled at a slow pace and with the camera staring a bit too long, showing to me that the vivacity of ideas Stiller and his gang had 15 years ago is no more. Still, it is amusing to see them ridicule the world of fashion and what it has become, and the movie correctly dated to that. Also the crazy idea of this world of male models is pushed to the extreme by having them have a special branch at Interpol, led by the sexy Penélope Cruz. The movie plays a lot on the offbeat humor coming from the contradiction between those extreme characters and the real world, but that is not sufficient. But what really managed to get a few smiles out of me were the small roles and cameos: Kiefer Sutherland as orgy leader, Billy Zane (Titanic) as himself, Justin Bieber attempting self-mockery, Sting, a disturbing androgynous Benedict Crumberbatch as the culmination of male slash female modelling, Neil deGrasse Tyson (the astrophysicist from Cosmos) giving the last look of the movie, M.C. Hammer and some real fashion people like Tommy Hilfiger. I won't watch this one as many times as the first.
Rating: 3 /10