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Name: Zoolander
Director: Ben Stiller
Genre: comedy
Released: 2001
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 6.5

Zoolander has an iRankMovies score of 63.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Zoolander (2001)

3% body fat. 1% brain activity.

Release:2001

Runtime:1h 29m

Country:United States

Director:Ben Stiller

Language:English

Genre

Comedy

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Keywords

Male ModelTime MagazineFashion ShowFictional Awards ShowCoal MineModelingAbraham Lincoln

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Zoolander rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.5/10· 314K votes

Rotten Tomatoes64%

Metacritic61%

TMDb6.225/10· 5K votes

With 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.5/10 on IMDb and 61/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Zoolander

Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere.

Cast of Zoolander

Ben Stiller
as Derek Zoolander
Owen Wilson
as Hansel
Christine Taylor
as Matilda Jeffries
Will Ferrell
as Mugatu
Milla Jovovich
as Katinka
Jerry Stiller
as Maury Ballstein
David Duchovny
as J.P. Prewitt
Jon Voight
as Larry Zoolander
Judah Friedlander
as Scrappy Zoolander
Nathan Lee Graham
as Todd
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Alexandre Manning
as Brint
Asio Highsmith
as Rufus

Zoolander facts

Budget: $28M
Box office: $60.8M
Collection: Zoolander Collection

Our take on Zoolander

Ben Stiller's 2001 comedy clears the runway for Derek Zoolander, a three-time male model of the year whose reign is threatened when hippie-chic upstart Hansel scoots in to steal the award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the moment to turn Derek into a killing machine, and only with Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories, including Matilda, can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere. It's a broad, affectionate spoof of the fashion industry, built on absurd gags, vain characters and quotable silliness. If you like deadpan stupidity played completely straight and don't mind plot taking a back seat to jokes, it's an easy, cheerful watch.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Male model satire delivers absurdist comedy and fashion industry mockery
•Parody humor maintains consistent comedic tone with clever satirical observations
•Fashion show sequences showcase comedic visual gags and satirical spectacle

What the audience disliked

•Satirical premise wears thin as joke repetition increases throughout runtime
•Character depth limited by comedic caricature nature of satirical character design

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