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Rating: 4/10
I really liked the original Zoolander, with its unique brand of
cleverly dumb comedy, but I never thought we needed a sequel.
Nonetheless, when Zoolander 2 was announced, I was looking forward to
it, and with a couple of pretty entertaining trailers, I thought that
this wasn't going to be one of those awful comedy sequels.
Oh, how wrong I was.
I'm sorry to say that Zoolander 2 is easily one of the worst comedy
sequels I've ever seen. Apart from a couple of chuckles, it failed to
make me laugh on a consistent basis, further angering me as it got more
and more boring and irritating as the film unfolded. Its story makes
absolutely no sense, and the narrative gets completely tangled up on
numerous occasions, destroying any enjoyment you could have found in
the film away from the terrible comedy, making this a thoroughly dull
and difficult movie to watch from start to finish.
The main thing we have to talk about here is how bad the comedy is. All
comedy sequels are tough to do, but normally, by keeping everything
pretty similar, you can get an entertaining movie. The problem with
Zoolander 2 is that it completely fails to deliver the brilliant sense
of humour that first film had.
The original Zoolander wasn't a dumb film, in fact it was a really
clever comedy that centred around a dumb character. The jokes were
well-written, and the majority of the humour stemmed from those main
characters. In the sequel, however, the comedy is just dumb. Relying
WAY too heavily on celebrity cameos for cheap laughs, and just
completely underwhelming gags on a constant basis, there's very little
to laugh at.
I will admit I chuckled a couple of times. Benedict Cumberbatch's
slightly offensive transgender character that you've seen in the
trailers was pretty good, and a couple of the jokes they did satirising
modern social media and hipsters etc. weren't too bad either.
Apart from that, this is a hugely unfunny film, and I'd say about 95%
of all of the jokes completely miss the mark. Sometimes, when there was
a joke, it would take me a few seconds to realise that it was actually
meant to be funny. And when I say sometimes, I mean pretty much all the
time, which shows you just how unfunny this is.
Now, that's the main objective of a comedy: to make you laugh. But,
seeing as that failed completely in Zoolander 2, maybe the story could
have salvaged something.
No, it didn't. The plot here is absolutely atrocious. Whilst the first
film had a clear focus, Derek being brainwashed to kill the Malaysian
Prime Minister, everything in the sequel is all over the place. At some
points they're looking for the assassins, sometimes they're just trying
to do fashion, sometimes they want to find Derek's son, and all sorts
of other rubbish that made this a hugely messy film that failed to
interest or entertain me at any point.
Now, I've been really harsh to Zoolander 2 here, and although I think
it definitely deserves heavy criticism, there is one thing that I do
have to praise, and that's Ben Stiller's directing. Much like the first
film, Zoolander 2 looks very stylish, just like the world of high
fashion should be. Every scene is fantastically put together, the
action sequences are brilliantly choreographed, and it is generally a
very nice film to look at.
That's it for positives, though. Overall, Zoolander 2 was a painfully
disappointing film. It completely fails to live up to its predecessor,
but most importantly, it almost never makes you laugh, and with such a
huge amount of jokes coming your way, it becomes quickly annoying and
horrendously dull to watch.
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