Zoolander 2 * *

You know those homemade movies that kids make where everyone on the screen are really just indulging themselves: but they're just kids having fun, and only a spoilsport would knock it?

Imagine such a movie but it’s got a $28 million dollar budget and all the people involved are celebrities of some sort, yet they still think, Gosh! We're just having a bit of fun and only a spoil-sport would knock us.

Well, that attitude would be true if these were our friends.  But you and I have to pay to see this. So here comes the spoil sport…..

Damn! this is a load of self-serving, self-indulgent rubbish.  I don’t think anyone is going to find this even half as funny as the first  Zoolander, except for those involved. They were probably rolling with laughter and massaging the heck out of one another's ego as they put it together.

The irony of Zoolander 2 is that it’s guilty of all the things it is shitting on: It’s narcissistic, unnecessary and  irritatingly over confident.

Maybe those involved already know of this irony and I’m just lolling behind like some old Labrador, not noticing we’ve come full circle. But somehow, I doubt it.

The roll call of celebrities and fashion icons who play themselves is endless.  Naturally half of them can’t act and they’re only there because they are who they are.

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson reprise their original roles as super Male Models on the come-back - except they learn sixteen years kind of makes a small difference in the fashion industry. Penelope Cruz has some fun playing an international agent.  The plot revolves around Zoolander’s son who is the key to the fountain of youth, whilst Will Ferrell plays villain Mugatu again, harboring an evil plot to kill all the ridiculously good looking people in the world.

Some of the photography and post production makes it look like a James Bond film - slick. But overall it’s just struck me as a lazy effort overly dependent upon who’s in it rather than why.