Zoolander is a great-enough movie on its own, a razor-sharp spoof of celebrity culture and the fashion world. However, Ferrell’s Mugatu is the secret ingredient.

| Aug 21, 2023

Think of 'Zoolander' as the anti-Austin Powers set to the retro-kitsch sounds of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Wham! Stiller spins gags around his harmless idiot and enlists friends and acquaintances to join in on the fun.

| Aug 19, 2023

There's an old saying about actors, how one needs to be smart to effectively pretend to be stupid. If that's true, Ben Stiller is a very smart man.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

While Zoolander the movie - like Zoolander the model - is a little light on brains, it definitely has its moments.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2022

Zoolander is a perfectly enjoyable film in and of itself, but coming after Stiller's exemplary bleak work on The Cable Guy (1996) it seems slightly disappointing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 10, 2021

This project is almost too silly for words.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 9, 2020

In a world where so few comedies make me laugh anymore, this one made me hysterical.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

Zoolander offers the breathless revelation that show business is a vain and hollow place.

| Oct 15, 2019

'Zoolander' is a fairly representative sample of the eclectic nature of Stiller's talent as a filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

Although it's in the lineage of other bombastic Fratpack numbers, it lacks the self-regarding tenor of many of those films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2018

...a blatantly silly premise that is, for the most part, executed to entertaining and hilarious effect by filmmaker Stiller...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2016

So lazy a comedy that I kept looking for Adam Sandler's name in the credits...essentially a funny 3-minute short with a bloated, unfunny full-length feature grafted on to it.

| Feb 10, 2016

A surprisingly entertaining movie, but edgy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Ben Stiller often forgoes go-for-broke comedy for the sake of getting rich. Not so in "Zoolander," which is not only Cuba Gooding Jr. and Billy Zane's best work of the last decade, but what remains Stiller's flat-out funniest film - down to the DVD menu.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 18, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2009

A fashion spoof draped over the bones of a puerile conspiracy adventure, this vanity comedy fails at every level barring its incidental details.

| Oct 18, 2008

It's patchy, but when it hits, Zoolander is as funny as any Frat Pack picture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2008

At times Zoolander threatens to disappear up its own catwalk, but it's often very funny stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's no Meet the Parents, but if you like Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson's brand of offbeat humor, Zoolander should be right up your fashion runway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

This light silly and fluffy satire of the fashion industry targets for a change not the female but male models.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 12, 2006