«Zoolander 2» (Feb. 12): Ben Stiller's 2001 comedy «Zoolander,» about a
male model and his
brainless friends, has become such an esteemed modern classic that the idea of a sequel — even with original stars Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell — sounds worrisome.
Director Todd Phillips — who wrote the script with Scot Armstrong — can't quite leave behind the
brainless idiocy and physical and psychological mortification as
male bonding that characterized his previous films, Starsky & Hutch and Old School, but there are hints that he's attempting to transcend such cinematically lazy falling back on Three Stooges humor.