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If you know the story behind the original...

posted 9 years ago by mpboylanjr-54038
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I have to say that it really wasn't as horrible as people are panning it. I finally just rented it OnDemand , and I must admit I laughed quite a lot .
Now the original was made 15 years ago when I was 16, and it was an instant cult classic. It is supposed to be really dumb, and the characters totally out there. It's how the first one was if you strip it down. Sure the original is unbeatable, but this wasn't so bad.
I think that many younger people who saw it might have not understand because the original was out when they were like 7-10 yrs old. Some even younger.
It had it pretty funny moments, and although it cannot beat the original (Stiller knew this), it was really made for the people who loved the craziness , and stupidity that brought us Derek, Hansel, and Mugatu and Company. I gave it a 6/10. I've seen way worse films, and the fact that it was made to be stupid funny as well as follow in the footsteps of the cult classic following that it did the job it was supposed to do. Just MO on it. Many funny parts , and low key nostalgic moments added into the film as well that cracked me up .

THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!!

[–] bvic-11626 9 years ago

Good point. Original is a favorite of mine and thoroughly enjoyed the sequel quite honestly

[–] PiquePique 9 years ago

Yes, I completely agree with you - it was a good sequel to an already ridiculous original. People hating this film are probably taking it way too seriously. I mean, Billy Zane delivering all the Netflix? Classic!

[–] lantzn 9 years ago

You can find anyone following the Netflix trail.

[–] CastroEulis 9 years ago

Yeah I was in the 7-10 year old range when the first one came out, but Ben Stiller has a lot of movies from that time that I still enjoy and quote with the family, such as mystery men, meet the parents,and starsky and hutch. From what I was hearing about this movie, I thought this was going to be ridiculously stupid where they didn't know how to bring the funny organically. This happens more times than not with all my favorite tv shows like season 4 of 30 Rock, season 6 of parks and rec, when arrested development came back, after the first spongebob movie came out lol. They delivered a decent movie here, though it was starting to drag until mugatu showed up and reenergized the movie.

[–] kittenbrains 9 years ago

Yeah this was a pretty funny sequel. Not in par with the first but enough dumb laughs to be worth a watch.

[–] StephieVee 9 years ago

While I respect most of your point, and perhaps I misunderstood your post, but the term "Cult Classic" does NOT apply to Zoolander or Zoo2. RHPS, The Princess Bride, Fight Club, Clerks, Blues Brothers, Donnie Darko, Evil Dead, Pulp Fiction...so forth, those are cult classics!

[–] PiquePique 9 years ago

I disagree - there are some comedy films that are cult classics - the Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite, Zoolander is also one of them. Not as sophisticated as Donnie Darko, obviously, but still must-see movies, don't you think? Zoolander still gets references all the time, and let's not forget that Blue Steel is the original duckface ^-^

[–] lantzn 9 years ago

How could anyone not think Zoolander 1 isn't a cult classic? Probably because they didn't like it. Of course Z2 isn't.

[–] jberning 9 years ago

Have to agree. Comedy sequels are generally tough to pull off and with all the bad reviews and word of mouth put it off for awhile. Finally rented it and it was a lot better than I was expecting and had a few very funny moments even.

[–] xreliable 8 years ago

I rarely re-watch movies but I'd rather re-watch the first zoolander 100 times than ever be subjected to what should just be called #2 💩- ever again.