Zoolander 2001

Critics score:
64 / 100

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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Stiller scores his funniest screen performance yet. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Roughly half the jokes in Zoolander fall flat, but they're all delivered with such energy and enthusiasm, even the dud gags are never annoying. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: This comedy far exceeds the time span over which watching people acting dumb and making funny faces remains funny. Read more

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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Offers up the pleasures that only a thoroughly trivial piece of work can provide. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Zoolander's superficial satire is more smarmy than charming. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Often unspeakably funny. Read more

Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: More than goofy enough to finish with style. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: If you're aware of -- and amused by -- pop culture, you'll laugh a lot. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Though basically an extended skit, Zoolander never runs out of amusing satiric thrusts. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: While the film is full of inside jokes and asides, they're mostly of the type anybody will get, therefore allowing us all to feel as if we're in the know. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Finally points Stiller in the right satirical direction, even though his central topic could just as easily be skewered in 10 minutes. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: This light silly and fluffy satire of the fashion industry targets for a change not the female but male models. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Even with the director hustling his cast like a fashion-show martinet, there's only so much cartoon emoting to be done before we're anticipating a TV commercial break. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Zoolander's vain stupidity gets as wearisome on film as such behaviour is in real life. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A refreshingly funny movie. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Doesn't Stiller realize that the fashion world is already its own parody? Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Despite its numerous weaknesses, Zoolander is more enjoyable than many of 2001's crop of so-called comedies. Read more

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 to them. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Serves as glossy, throwaway fun, and it features more cameos than you can shake a mascara wand at. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Manages to be stretched too thin and overblown at the same time. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: A fashion spoof draped over the bones of a puerile conspiracy adventure, this vanity comedy fails at every level barring its incidental details. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Gleefully goofy and consistently funny. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A freakishly potent farce. Read more