Paramount Pictures | Release Date: September 28, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
11
Negative:
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88
Well-paced, scathingly funny satire of the fashion industry and its eminently lampoonable pomposity.
80
Basically one elaborate joke about male modeling and all the vanity, emasculation, and fatuousness that attend it. Fortunately, it's a good joke.
75
Isn't always on the money, but when it is, it really is.
75
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.
60
It's a diverting mess, sometimes even a delightful mess.
50
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.