Zoolander review thread

[Nick Nunziata]

Have at.

[rje7]

Zoolander was the perfect movie to see at midnight last night. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson had phenomenal on-screen chemistry (bodes very well for the Royal Tenenbaums as Meet the Parents wasn't a fluke). This is the new Austin Powers. Extremely quotable, great scenes, a few scenes that missed, but overall a great comedy/spoof. The Walk Off will change arguments for ever.

[Prankster]

Given a choice between Hearts in Atlantis and Zoolander this weekend, see Zoolander. Seriously.

I know this film is getting knocked around on the basis of a weak trailer, but DAMN it's funny. It's the movie "The Spy Who Shagged Me" should have been, and in fact I'd put it on the level of the original Austin Powers.

Believe it or not, it's a smart movie that never explains its own jokes the way so many modern comedies do. That's a MAJOR annoyance for me, and I'm so relieved to see a flick that just lets something slip out and then jumps on to the next joke without listening for a subliminal cymbal crash. The humour is entirely situational, not so much based on punchlines as just letting a situation get sillier and sillier. There are a LOT of fantastic lines which I predict people will be spouting back and forth over the next few weeks ("Moisture is the essence of wetness") but a lot of them are only funny in context. "Merman! MerMAN!!"

What's funny is the way Z. turns the world into a Gap commercial just by existing. At a gas station, in a coal mine, breaking into a building. And there are so many hilarious details that a normal, dumber movie would have milked dry, but here are hilarious because they're not frantic, they're just there.

Almost every scene is, at the very least, a funny *idea*, and some are just so insane that you have to laugh. If you think Will Ferrell is weird now, wait til you see him in the brainwashing video.

Everyone is outstanding. Stiller is kind of one-note, but it's a funny note, like Austin Powers. Owen Wilson is God, being the opposite of Stiller, not really affecting mannerisms, just inhabiting a funny character. The girl who played Marsha in the Brady Bunch movie is the love interest, and damn she's hot. She's, as usual, the straight man, but she actually gets a pretty well fleshed out character. I'm not the world's biggest fan of Will Ferrell, but he's used perfectly here.

And then there's the ten million cameos...so many that Vince Vaughn, for instance, doesn't even get a speaking role. Most of them are playing themselves, so it's not annoying celebrity distraction as usually happens.

Really, not just a "Kick back and let your brain go" movie but honestly the funniest comedy I've seen all year. Maybe in two years.

[Vehemence]

If you're thinking about seeing "Zoolander" but first want to know what Joe Average thinks, here are the CinemaScores.

Under 21 - Males, B; Females, B+
21 to 34 - Males, C+; Females, C
35 and Up - Males, C-; Females, C

The overall grade is a C+.

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[D_B_Cooper]

I was... disappointed.

[Seahawk]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by D_B_Cooper:
I was... disappointed.


Spock has returned!

Just kiddin'..haha...tehee..

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I'll see this one...if its ugly, you all is gonna get somtin'!

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[capteucalyptus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by D_B_Cooper:
I was... disappointed.

Were your expectations that high? Or did it suck that bad? God forbid both.

[D_B_Cooper]

I guess when I sat down in the theatre on Saturday, I was expecting something funny. That's all.