This movie is hilarious, it sends up those people who take fashion too seriously(maybe even those we saw in The September Issue). Will Ferrel is great as Mugatu, an overly eccentric fashion designer. Zoolander is about male model Derek Zoolander(Ben Stiller), who finds himself being replaced by fresh-faced model Hansel(Owen Wilson). After a very quick retirement Derek is pulled back into the fashion game by Mugatu and set to stage a comeback. Little does Derek know, after going to a day spa he has been hypnotised to assassinate the Prime Minster of Malaysia. Only rival Hansel can help him stop Mugatu's evil scheme.
What's cool about this too is all the celebrity cameos, you don't notice them all
at first (only the weird ones like Fred Durst or Lance Bass... now equally disturbing) but there are so many and quite a few are fashion notaries like Donatella Versace, Karl Lagerfeld and Hiedi Klum. This was one of the earlier Will Ferrel/Ben Stiller/Owen Wilson type comedies and it's one of the better ones, it's up there with Anchorman.
And apparently there are rumours of a sequel. I've heard it may be about how Hansel and Derek get back into the fashion pack after 10 years of being relatively unknown. It sounds like it could be funny, only if the writers manage to get back to wherever they were 10 years ago.
Since tonight is the last night of the L'oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, it's also the last night of the fashion theme. Starting from tomorrow, anything goes. And here's a clue regarding tomorrow's movie: 5 days, 7 hours, see if you can figure that one out.
Peace
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