Ben Stiller, Billy Zane, Christine Taylor

The international misadventures of fashion model Derek Zoolander, who is hired to stop a secret cartel of political assassins posing as male models. While Derek tries to infiltrate the fashion/assassi...( read more  read more... )n clique led by the mean-spirited designer Mugatu, he must also contend with Hansel, a dense, on-the-rise male model who poses a threat to sabotage Derek's mission--as well as his modeling career.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Ben Stiller

Release Date: September 28, 2001

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DVD Release Date: March 12, 2002

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  • September 18, 2009
    I just don't get it, why is this funny? Its only got one joke in the whole film!!!
  • July 8, 2009
    Ben Stiller is the best! Love this movie.
  • June 24, 2009
    worth a viewing for the walk-off. david bowie cameo = perfect.
  • May 9, 2009
    "3% Body Fat. 1% Brain Activity."

    At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

    REVIEW

    This is a movie I have watched several t...( read more)imes, and every time the overall silliness gets to me. The wonderfully goofy mock-intellectual conversations among the models, the recurring misunderstandings caused by differences in a model's skewed grasp on things and the actual reality surrounding them, microscopic cell phones .. it's just funny as hell. Owen Wilson, whose life consists of a series of gadgets, fads, drugs and leisure time only, Ben Stiller taking a trophy he did not actually win (Michael Jackson should have been hosting that ceremony ..). It's all good enough for me.

    What I appreciate even more about this movie is the visual perfection. So much work has been invested into creating interesting sets and locations, great lighting and camera work, with the weird 'indoctrination sequence' in the day spa taking the cake. The great number of cameos adds to the mix - "Put a cork in it, Zane!".

    Anyway, always enjoyable and a pleasure to watch. You can delve for deeper layers, like Ben tries to do for a day with the equally spike-haired relatives ("I'm not a professional television or movie actor!" - Jon Voight), but that's probably not what this movie was made for.
  • December 21, 2008
    "There's more to life than just being really, really, really good looking."

    Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller with his buddy Owen Wilson and cameos of "stars" will probably guarantee some laughs. In the end it's too stupid and basically relies too much on the silly dialogue.

    On the pos...( read more)itive side, the people in the movie have obviously had a good time doing this. But the fun just doesn't come to you in ways that would make "Zoolander" special. Although it's fun to watch a movie that laughs at the model industry...

    "What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?"
  • November 2, 2009
    "I gotta go pee now, but I'd love to continue talking about this conversation when I get back."
  • November 1, 2009
    this movie will make you laugh!!
  • November 1, 2009
    I like it more the more I see it.
  • October 29, 2009
    Fun movie and one of my favorite Ben Stiller's characters.
  • October 28, 2009
    how can they fit inside the builiding.

Critic Reviews


October 12, 2001
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Serves as glossy, throwaway fun, and it features more cameos than you can shake a mascara wand at. full review

October 3, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

An oasis of bracing comedy that comes at just the right time, when we're parched for it. full review

September 28, 2001
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Offers up the pleasures that only a thoroughly trivial piece of work can provide. full review

September 28, 2001
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Zoolander's vain stupidity gets as wearisome on film as such behaviour is in real life. full review

September 28, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

If the Malaysians made a comedy about the assassination of the president of the United States because of his opposition to slavery, it would seem approximately as funny to us as Zoolander would seem t... full review

September 27, 2001
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Gleefully goofy and consistently funny. full review

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Comments


  • perfectgentlemn
    August 22, 2008
    Hilarious, this movie was ridiculously funny. Will Ferrel is nuts, I had to see this again, forgot how insane it was, Must see... it's totally retarded. haha... ;-) Enjoy.
  • jonathan342
    June 5, 2008
    Zoolander added a few words/phrases to my lexicon, and for this I am grateful.

    "Goodlooking" (as a single word, accent on "good")
    "So hot right now" (implication: hotness is fleeting, get it while you can.)
    "Blue Steeling" (when people walk around actually making the Blue Steel face. This happens a lot in Los Angeles.)
  • valentin702
    April 22, 2008
    Great movie!

    Moment to remember:

    "Derek Zoolander Center for Kids who don't know how to read good and want to learn other stuff too" ... or something hahaha
  • holly241090
    December 16, 2007
    Matilda: "i became bulimic..."

    Zoolander: (gasp) "you can read minds!?"

    classic.
  • Karrie789
    September 8, 2007
    It all started in the second grade. I was eating my cereal when I caught my reflection on the back of the spoon, and I thought to myself, I'm incredibly good-looking. Maybe I should do that for a living... Do what for a living? Be freakishly incredebly good-looking!
  • imapepper01
    August 27, 2007
    You think you're too cool for school! Well guess what? ..........you're not!

    Ben Stiller IS a genius.
  • ryanloughlin
    August 4, 2007
    You can Derelicte my balls
    I'de rather lick my own
  • junasophia
    July 9, 2007
    i was at a day spa d-a-i-y-e
  • EdwardXCullen
    July 1, 2007
    magnum iz beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~♥~
  • EdwardXCullen
    June 24, 2007
    i luv dis movie

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