Oh, ZOOLANDER 2. Not long ago it just seemed like a bad internet rumor, just like Batman and Superman in the same big-budget movie, or another ANCHORMAN, or Donald Trump seriously considering a run for president. Now ZOOLANDER 2 is really upon us. That should really be a wake-up call about all that media that forecasts an invasion by flesh-eating living dead sometime in our future. We really have to take care what gets put out there.
Not that ZOOLANDER 2 is terribly bad, by ZOOLANDER standards. It's just difficult to see what more co-writer-star-director Ben Stiller has to bring to the table regarding grotesquely exaggerated fashion-industry freaks and male-model stupidity, crossed with 007 level cartoon intrigue, that the same comic didn't do to satisfaction in 2001's ZOOLANDER in the first place. Well, now there is a scene in which Justin Bieber gets killed, right up front, there's that rather desperate appeal to critical goodwill and wish-fulfillment.
