"How the fashion industry works, by Ben Stiller."
This movie is an over the top all out assault on the stupidity, and narcissism of the fashion world. A movie filled with high-profile cameos by everyone from Natalie Portman to Lenny Kravitz it is a whirlwind tale about two polar opposites in the fashion industry set in epic conflict. Or at least, that's what the billboard should've said. The story is really about as paper thin as most of the personalities in the modelling industry, which this satire attempts to describe. I was kinda surprised there was not Tyra Banks.
Obviously poking fun at every aspect of the fashion world's huberus, I believe this movie is essiential for any Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell collection. Ferrell plays the sinister mastermind Mugato, who is behind fashion juggernaut Zoolander, played by Stiller. Opposite of Zoolander is Hansel played by Owen Wilson. The two are set against each other in competition for fashion week. For me the best part of the flick was when Zoolander's friends go out for an orange-mocha-frapachino at Starbucks, which concludes in a rather typical metrosexual frolic paced to the hit eighties Boy George tune that turns into a "gasoline fight" while refueling their Jeep, that results in an explosion and subsequent funeral trifecta. The explosion was epic. Most of the rest of this movie was rather overplayed by Stiller, who could have brought more depth to the role, even though it was intended to be satire. Ballstein, Zoolander's manager, conspires with Mugato to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia in order to reinstitute child labour in sweat shops, but the whole thing kinda spirals out of control from there. Although funny, most of the humor seemed lost in translation to me.
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