Zoolander 2
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 12, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
15
Negative:
21
Watch Now
Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsGersh KuntzmanFeb 10, 2016
Did you like “Zoolander”? Good, then you’ll like Zoolander 2. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonKate LloydFeb 10, 2016
Mostly, Zoolander 2 hits the mark with style. Just don’t expect anything too deep.
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyFeb 11, 2016
It then becomes very funny, funny enough that my wife observed that she thought I was going to have a stroke, as I was laughing so much. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 11, 2016
Sometimes unapologetically stupid and joyously crass, it’s often brilliant in its absurdity, one of those rare comedies where the audience sits there dumbstruck, wondering what crazy thing will happen next. It takes really smart people to make a movie this silly. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerFeb 10, 2016
It’s a bizarre and pointless spectacle, but not an unamusing one. Characters like Alexanya and Atari feel very much like try-outs for Saturday Night Live characters — not surprising, given that at least four of the cast members have worked on that show. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 12, 2016
Zoolander 2 sweats its silly ass off to please. The results are scattershot. But when it works — oh, baby. There's a bit with Justin Bieber and a selfie that, well, no spoilers. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly RichardsFeb 10, 2016
It’s fun to take another turn with Derek and Hansel, but they probably don’t have another season in them. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramFeb 9, 2016
More Blue Steel than Magnum, this is a perfectly serviceable sequel, but dogged by repetition, it lacks the original's speed and sizzle. Read full review
60
The TelegraphHelen O'HaraFeb 9, 2016
It’s fun to see Zoolander once more. It seems unlikely that the premise could ever sustain a third film, but if this is Derek’s swan song then he leaves amid a flurry of feathers and bustle – surely all a male model could wish for. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 9, 2016
There are always some laughs to be had here, and Ben Stiller’s couture legend now has an endearingly muppety look. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 15, 2016
Zoolander would have been better left as a stand-alone cult classic. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldFeb 14, 2016
A mostly agreeable but empty-headed mess. It’s sort of the movie equivalent of Derek Zoolander himself. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelFeb 11, 2016
For every laugh that Zoolander 2 elicits, there's a pang that all this was funnier the first time around. Read full review
44
The VergeTasha RobinsonFeb 21, 2016
Where the first film was content with straight-faced silliness, Zoolander 2 tries to blow the same silliness out to epic, world-spanning proportions, and it just winds up feeling overstretched. Like Stiller with his ridiculous characters and stylized performances, it's consistently trying way too hard. Read full review
42
The Film StageDaniel SchindelFeb 10, 2016
Hits a decent count of guffaws and chortles, enough to make for a solid rental or something you settle on while channel surfing on an idle afternoon. Read full review
42
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezFeb 10, 2016
Zoolander 2 is no disaster, but it’s almost worse; a tedious jag that barely works as a disposable and mild, if-its-on-cable-TV, diversion. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyFeb 9, 2016
Zoolander No. 2 is embarrassing, lazy, and aggressively unfunny. The only good news is that at the pace the franchise is moving, we won’t get Zoolander 3 until 2030. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranFeb 11, 2016
Zoolander 2 defines haphazard. You may smile at times, but not as often as you'd like. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghFeb 11, 2016
It’s a stumble down the catwalk not even Blue Steel can save. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 9, 2016
The stakes are higher, the action is bigger, the ambitions are grander, the jokes are appreciably less funny. Like many comedy sequels, Zoolander 2 supersizes everything in such a way that it’s that much more apparent how few of the jokes are connecting. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 9, 2016
Sure, it's a kick to see Stiller and Wilson back in the shoes of these camera-ready cretins, but for every joke that sparks there are several that just lay there. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 11, 2016
Zoolander 2 feels like a hasty collection of last-minute comedy panic attacks. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 11, 2016
Stiller the director does a fine job of making Zoolander 2 look like an actual spy movie, but we’ve seen far better takeoffs, including “Spy” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service” in just the last couple of years. As for the jabs at the transient nature of popular culture and the ridiculousness of high fashion world — easy, tired targets. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 11, 2016
Moviegoers may wish that Will Ferrell's megalomaniacal supervillain Mugatu had won in the first Zoolander and saved us from another film with these boneheads. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrFeb 11, 2016
This needless sequel amps the silliness to DEFCON-4 levels of frantic surrealism and overstuffs the running time with famous faces. It’s a pop quiz instead of a movie, and it’ll be dated by tomorrow morning. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 10, 2016
A “high concept comedy” from the days when those were a thing, it’s basically a cacophony of cameos and random sight gags hurled at the viewer in a tsunami of haute couture hype. Read full review
30
The New YorkerAnthony LaneFeb 15, 2016
The first film scored a few palpable hits, but the new one barely makes the effort. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenFeb 11, 2016
Zoolander 2 has enough plots for several movies. They are so jammed together that they more or less cancel each other out. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonFeb 10, 2016
Wiig's cheering presence in an otherwise depleting project/cross-promoted product highlights the fact that Zoolander 2 is a referendum on dying industries: not just the portfolio of Condé Nast titles that Wintour oversees as artistic director, but also the Frat Pack. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerFeb 10, 2016
If Zoolander 2 was a party, the guest list alone would make it the greatest ever thrown. But Zoolander 2 is not a party. It is a movie. A bad movie. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 18, 2016
What truly becomes aggravating about Zoolander 2 is its dependence upon a parade of famous people doing supremely unfunny things. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 11, 2016
Stiller’s one good idea is turning things over to Will Ferrell, who does some amusingly demented things while haranguing Anna Wintour and Tommy Hilfiger and is probably funnier in his sleep than Stiller is at his best. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineJake ColeFeb 11, 2016
The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying. Read full review
25
HitfixDrew McWeenyFeb 10, 2016
Brutally unfunny, visually off-putting, and filled with cameos so embarrassing I am bruised from holding a cringe for a full half-hour, Zoolander 2 is every horrible decision you can make with a comedy sequel wrapped up into one nigh unbearable film. Read full review
25
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeFeb 9, 2016
There are no build-ups or pay-offs here, just a lot of random moments of people saying stupid stuff, and fashion people being gently lampooned. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisFeb 17, 2016
The movie is as lifeless as a mannequin until Ferrell appears near the end as the absurdly coiffed villain Jacobim Mugatu. Read full review
20
SlateDavid EhrlichFeb 11, 2016
There are any number of reasons why the vast majority of comedy sequels are borderline unwatchable, but there’s ultimately only one thing that the worst of them all share in common: They give the audience what they think they want, not what they don’t yet know they want. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangFeb 9, 2016
The results may delight those who believe recycled gags and endless cameos to be the very essence of great screen comedy, but everyone else will likely recognize Stiller’s wannabe Magnum opus as a disappointment-slash-misfire, the orange mocha crappuccino of movie sequels. Read full review
16
ConsequenceBlake GobleFeb 11, 2016
Zoolander No. 2 invokes that old Simpsons headline: “old man yells at modern culture.” Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 12, 2016
How bad is Zoolander 2? It’s "Batman and Robin" bad. It’s so bad that it makes you feel sorry for the scores (literally) of celebrities who show up in cameos, even the ones (Anna Wintour, Tommy Hilfiger, Susan Sarandon, Ariana Grande, Kimye ...) who actively resist your sympathy, whom you maybe want to see taken down a peg. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 11, 2016
Some movies keep you in a state of suspense. Zoolander 2, a dud glitter-bomb of a sequel, eventually leaves you in a state of suspended animation, with eyes glazed over and brain in sleep mode. Read full review
0
Washington PostAnn HornadayFeb 11, 2016
Lazily written by Stiller and three collaborators (including Justin Theroux), this is the kind of lame, warmed-over movie that gives sequels a bad name. For “Zoolander” fans, however, it resembles a betrayal of public trust. Read full review
More From This Movie

34 Critic Reviews

4.2 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 81 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2 77 Project Hail Mary
3 75 Send Help
4 73 Hoppers
5 72 The Sheep Detectives
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL