Derek Zoolander (Stiller) is the worlds top male model and dumber than a half empty jar of baby-food. In fact Derek may be both the stupidest and best looking man on the planet if not for his only rival: extreme-dude/Hippie-Male Model, Hansel (Owen Wilson). The two pretty-boys must put aside their bitter rivalry and team up with sexy girl reporter Matilda Jeffries (Chritine Taylor
that's the girl who played Marsha in the Brady Bunch movies) to foil an assassination conspiracy headed up by the international fashion industry and their deadliest operative the evil designer Jacobim Mugatu (Pronounced Jacobeem Moogatoo) played by the funniest being to exist in this universe or any other, SNL's own bellowing, infinite wellspring of hilarity Will Ferrell (Pronounced exactly how it sounds.)
Zoolander has the same kind of highly visual, campy feel of Austin Powers. Where as Powers zinged 60's style Zoolander mocks contemporary fashion culture. The getups in Zoolander make the costumes from Bat-Man and Robin look like the wardrobe of somebody's conservative 1950's Dad. In a day in age where Hollyrock (sorry I mean Hollywood
I forgot I'm not a Flintstone) gives us one lame rip off after another Zoolander proves refreshingly original. Case in point, how many films are bold enough to have a group of male models accidentally blow themselves up while having a semi-homo-erotic gasoline fight at a service station to the hit 1980's Wham song `Wake Me Up For You Go Go?' That might have sounded confusing but trust me it's pretty inexplicable when you see it in the movie too. But it's weird stuff like that that makes Zoolander a laugh per nanosecond. And here's fair warning when the Hypnosis scene starts put down your refreshing coca-cola (or is it Pepsi that owns our school?) because you'll laugh so hard that your generic soft drink won't just shoot out of your nostrils but every single orifice in your body! Of course the same warning could apply to Male Model `Walk off' duel, Derek's romp through the coal mines and basically every time Stiller, Ferrell or Wilson are on screen. I couldn't endorse this movie anymore without having to get a full body tattoo of the films entire story board.. but (to quote Levar Burton's famous `Reading Rainbow' line)
`don't take my word for it'
hear what people sort of just like you had to say
- `The Best Original comedy in years.'
- `I'm like totally going to buy the sound track.' (She was right the track rocks.)