Making long-after sequels to classic comedies is risky: while "Clerks 2" and "Anchorman 2" got away with it, "Zoolander 2" - released 15 (!) years after the cult original - is a giant waste of time.Yes, the film tries to tick all the nostalgic boxes, with plenty of references to the original - nearly everyone from the first film returns - and plenty of celebrity cameos, but it's not as inspired as the original. Even attempts to parody the ridiculousness of fashion don't work, coming off as embarrassing at times.The plot tries to incorporate spy elements and even some strange "Da Vinci Code" cult/conspiracy, but it still doesn't work. Derek (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) are the exact same idiots from 15 years ago (which was endearing and funny back in 2001), only Derek has a son and Hansel has a family with a bizarre orgy group. So is there anything good about this movie? Justin Bieber's death is entertainingly violent, it's great to see the gorgeous Penelope Cruz again, and Benedict Cumberbatch has a ball playing a pretentious, gender-fluid model.If you love "Zoolander", ignore this garbage and watch the original for the millionth time. It'd be a much better use of your time.

This movie is filled with tired jokes about millenials, while being combined with humor that's absolutely abominable, unlikable characters, and with an awful plot. And, Unlike the original Zoolander which was a masterfully done satire on the fashion industry, this one focuses on making fun of millenials with over done jokes that you could find by looking at your conservative grandmother's facebook page.

'Zoolander 2' is the long (15 years!) anticipated sequel to the endlessly quotable original fashion satire. Derek (Stiller) has become a "hermit crab" recluse after a quickly-explained tragedy occurred in 2001. Likewise, Hansel (Wilson) is living a nomadic life with his 11-person harem-esque "orgy". There's plenty of sight gags & cameos right from the start. The film opens with a Bond-style car/foot chase through Rome, with the joke being that it's Justin Bieber and there's a criminal organisation going around killing pop stars. He's a good sport, getting shot by literally 100's of bullets! This brings Derek & Hansel to Rome to come out of their hibernation.Valentina (Cruz) from Interpol steps in to protect them/find Derek's long-lost son, Derek Jr (Arnold). She looks fantastic (@ 41) in her red leather suit and later in her swimsuit, lamenting her "annoying, plus-size naturals" that kept her from being a 'proper' model! After appearing in Alexanya Atoz (Wiig - looking likely what Miley Cyrus will look like in 15 years!) and Don Atari (Mooney - super annoying)'s fashion show and getting ridiculed, they uncover that Mugatu (Ferrell) is behind everything from his prison cell. It then turns into a bit of a Bond film, with a lava pit involved!If you're watching this hoping for some cerebral comedy, you're in the wrong place. There's heaps of dumb jokes (most involving mispronunciation), dozens of cameos (Zane, Sutherland, Cumerbatch, Armisen, Sarandon, Sting, Perry, Nelson, Moss, deGrasse Tyson) and plenty of Blue Steel/Magnum's from everyone - but it is, at heart, a comedy lambasting the superficiality and stupidness of modelling and fashion. Definitely not as good as the original, but whenever Stiller, Wilson & Ferrell are on screen together, there's going to be laughs. It's really well-paced - never gets boring - and has consistent chuckles, with a few great moments.

Its one of those movies, you like it or you hate it. If you like the first one, like I did, there is a reasonable chance you love this one as well. I think the bad rating and reviews for this second one are a related to it wrong timing. The first one was, as many movies are, a product of its time. Back then it was funny to see the fashion world ridicule it self in a most outrages way. So its no surprise this one picks it up where they left off in the first one, and take it one or two steps further, something I loved but it increases the love/ hate factor as well. If this one was made 3 years after the first, it was probably better received. Its a movie that is just entertainment, noting more, if you can put on that filter, you will enjoy it, if you put on any other filter, there is so many things to hate about it. Again there is a convoy of celebrities making cameo's and some of them are very entertaining, seeing Ariana Grande in a SM outfit will raise more then a eyebrow and seeing Justin Bieber blown to smithereens for more then a minute by a hail of bullets, I am still looking for a GIF At the end when ask why Bieber had to die ? Mugatu's answer was epic !