Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
61
(30 sources)
61
(30 sources)
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USA Today
Something this gleefully goofy and consistently funny would be welcome in any environment. Read Full Review » -
88
Baltimore Sun
Well-paced, scathingly funny satire of the fashion industry and its eminently lampoonable pomposity. Read Full Review » -
83
Portland Oregonian
Works like a funnier "Austin Powers" -- you laugh just enough to want to see the whole thing again. Read Full Review » -
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80
Mr. Showbiz
Basically one elaborate joke about male modeling and all the vanity, emasculation, and fatuousness that attend it. Fortunately, it's a good joke. Read Full Review » -
80
Film Threat
Stiller is laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish and anyone that may quibble about plot minutiae, is just not ready to have a good time. Read Full Review » -
80
LA Weekly
One's laughter builds on such a rising curve that memories of its flaws burn away. Read Full Review » -
75
Charlotte Observer
Anyhow, I believe you would probably like this movie if you let your mind drift during the slow parts. That is easier for some of us than others, and I was thinking about my next runway project about half of the time. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Daily News
The humor is simple but far from dumb. The dueling "walk-off" between rival male mannequins is inspired, as are the sly juxtapositions of the male model's faux physicality with such real-world demands as coal mining. Read Full Review » -
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The gags hit more than they miss, and Stiller has moments of inspired absurdity, but he's capable of something more cutting and clever. It's junk food moviemaking: fun to snack on, but hardly a substantial meal. Read Full Review » -
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Austin Chronicle
Zoolander's consistent, blissful stupidity is a comic, mental Xanax, soothing in its gormless sense of inspired wack. Read Full Review » -
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63
Philadelphia Inquirer
What Zoolander does have, and this was enough for me, is a sublime comic performance by Owen Wilson, as the supermodel Hansel, positively radiant in its dimness. Read Full Review » -
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Miami Herald
A hit-and-miss affair, but it's smart and good-natured enough to guarantee Stiller an open invitation to host VH1's annual Fashion Awards. Read Full Review » -
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Variety
Misses its comic targets as often as it hits them but is endearing all the same for the good-natured cheer with which it skewers the eminently skewerable. Read Full Review » -
60
New Times (L.A.)
Like all films constructed out of pop-culture effluvia, Zoolander runs the risk of being so last month; this is a movie that treats Fabio as the ultimate punch line and regards David Bowie as the prince of style. Read Full Review » -
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Salon.com
It's to Stiller's credit that he can sustain the joke for the length of the movie, but just barely. Ten more minutes of Zoolander would have been 10 minutes too many. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Tribune
The main problem is the director-star's choice to play so far beneath his intelligence for so long. Stiller lacks the physical gifts and projected sweetness of, say, Jim Carrey in "Dumb and Dumber," and unlike Peter Sellers in the "Pink Panther" movies, he can't keep a straight face. Read Full Review » -
50
New York Magazine
When he's playing a relatively normal guy ringed by eccentrics, as in "There's Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents," Stiller can be flat-out funny. In Zoolander, he's just one nutso among many, and he cancels himself out. Read Full Review » -
50
Washington Post
Even though it’s mostly pleasant and sometimes funny, Zoolander could use some sort of boost. Read Full Review » -
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TV Guide
Overall, how funny you find it will probably depend on whether or not the mere sight of Stiller sucking in his cheeks, widening his eyes and striking preposterous poses makes you laugh uproariously. Read Full Review » -
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San Francisco Chronicle
It's probably pointless to complain when a movie sets out to be stupid and actually is. (And the people who came up with a couple of these ideas think male models are dumb.) Read Full Review » -
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Washington Post
A sometimes inspired but sputtering parody of the fashion industry. It's desperate to please, yet never unzips the fancy pants of haute couture. Read Full Review » -
42
Entertainment Weekly
In theory, Zoolander is ''Pret-à-Porter'' on laughing gas. In practice, however, the movie is an ill-fitting suit of gags, too long in the crotch even at 90 minutes. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Sun-Times
There have been articles lately asking why the United States is so hated in some parts of the world. As this week's Exhibit A from Hollywood, I offer Zoolander. Read Full Review » -
20
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