Zoolander - 2001

A very stupid movie, but meant to be. Very funny in its own idiot-way. Ben Stiller is Derek Zoolander, the greatest male model of the last years, incredibly stupid and vain. His new rival is Hansen (Owen Wilson), the new model in town. The movie theorizes that unspeakable things have been committed in the name of fashion business, from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy to the one that’s been attempted here: the Prime Minister of Malaysia wants to stop child labour, so current fashion bosses order Mugatu (Will Ferrell) to kill him using an unknowing model. He chooses Zoolander and brainwashes him to murder the man when he hears the ‘Relax’ song Fortunately for him a journalist, Matilda (Christine Taylor) is not stupid and discovers that this has happened before: models died young, and every time Katinka (Milla Yovovich) was involved. Knowing she works for Mugatu, Matilda is worried for Derek. J. P. Prewitt , a hand model, explains it all to them. Do I need to talk about the fact that David Duchovny plays the man uncovering the big conspiracy? :lol: Thanks to Matilda Derek and Hansel make peace and work together to stop Mugatu’s plan. Derek becomes a hero and his father (Jon Voight) , a mine worker who was ashamed of him before, now is all “that’s my son!”. I’m not actually fond of idiot movies, but this is fun: Derek thinking he’s so so beautiful, Derek who’s been working for years on his new expression :lol: they all look the same, as Mugatu says at the end, but Derek proves him wrong because with his new Magnum-expression he’s able to stop the blade about to kill the Prime Minister (right now I can’t remember what are called those round-things throwned by ninjas..). A lot of real celebrities make an appearance in this movie: a few of them I could easily recognize: Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr, Natalie Portman, Fabio, Lenny Kravitz (presenting the award for best model won by Hansel, in that funny scene when Derek thinks he’s won and goes up on stage :lol:) Paris Hilton (well, he calls her by name, so it was easy) David Bowie :-) and Stephen Dorff; others I either didn’t see or don’t even know: Steve Kmelko, Mark Ronson, Tyson Beckford, Fred Durst, Lance Bass, L’il Kim, Garry Shanding, Veronica Webb, Carmen Kass, Frankie Rayder, who are they?

Donald Trump, Claudia Schiffer, Tom Ford, Tommy Hilfiger, Gwen Stefani, Heidi Klum, Lukas Haas, Sandra Bernhard, I didn’t see. Derek is friend with Billy Zane and calls him by name, yet he’s not in the credits, while there is “Billy Zane’s date” in there… I mean, he was Billy Zane, wasn’t him?

Apparently James Marsden played Lincoln’s murderer, but he appeared for just a moment and I didn’t recognize him. I clearly saw Vince Vaughn as one of the two brothers of Derek (with no lines) and Josh Brolin playing the reporter (with lots of lines) yet neither of them appeared in the ending credits: they were Vaughn and Brolin, weren’t they? I think I also saw Winona Ryder, but am not sure.