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ZOOLANDER 2: NEL SEQUEL DEL PRIMO 'ZOOLANDER' (2001) SEMPRE TARGATO BEN STILLER, CON OWEN WILSON E INTERESSANTI NEW ENTRY COME PENELOPE CRUZ, TORNANO I CAMEI DI CELEBRITA' CHE INTERPRETANO SE STESSE (JUSTIN BIEBER, MILEY CYRUS)
Quelli che... ci fermano a TRAILER e CLIP - Al pubblico l'ardua sentenza
PREVIEW in ENGLISH by JUSTIN CHANG, www.variety.com - Dall'11 FEBBRAIO
"Drake mi propose il ruolo del modello. Ho pensato che fosse ridicolo, ed Ăš esattamente questo il motivo per cui ho accettato. Drake ama il mondo della moda ed ha unâimpavida mente comica. Abbiamo finito per fare lo sketck per due anni consecutivi... Alla fine le persone si connettono ai personaggi. Amare Zoolander, per me significa amore verso Derek, Hansel e Mugatu perchĂ© sono loro il fulcro della storia... Derek Ăš un personaggio unico. La sua genuinitĂ ed il suo egocentrismo nasce dalla sua ingenuitĂ e dalla sua innocenza. Ho rivisto il primo film per assicurarmi di farlo bene, e dopo un paio di settimane ho acquisito piĂč naturalezza, ed Ăš diventato divertente"
Il regista, co-sceneggiatore ed interprete Ben Stiller
(Zoolander; USA 2015; Sketch Comedy; 100'; Produz.: Red Hour Films e Scott Rudin Productions; Distribuz.: Universal Pictures International Italy)
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Titolo in italiano: Zoolander 2
Titolo in lingua originale:
Zoolander
Anno di produzione:
2015
Anno di uscita:
2016
Regia: Ben Stiller
Sceneggiatura:
Ben Stiller e Justin Theroux
Soggetto: Soggetto di Ben Stiller e Drake Sather nel segno del sequel della pellicola del 2001 Zoolander. Come nel primo film, ci saranno molti camei di celebritĂ che interpreteranno loro stesse.
PRELIMINARIA - Le origini:
La sua inconfondibile espressione ha catturato i cuori del mondo della moda e del pubblico,
ed Ăš diventata una parte del lessico culturale. Un hashtag prima dell'esistenza degli hashtag.
Nata dalle menti dei fautori di sketch comedy Drake Sather e Ben Stiller, l'idea iniziale Ăš
nata in occasione di uno sketch per i VH1 Fashion Award del 1996. Ambientata dietro le quinte di
un servizio fotografico, la gag metteva in risalto lâeccentricitĂ dei protagonisti facenti parte del
mondo della moda.
Cast: Ben Stiller (Derek Zoolander) Owen Wilson (Hansel McDonald) Penélope Cruz (Melanie Valentina) Christine Taylor (Matilda Jeffries) Kristen Wiig (Alexanya Atoz) Will Ferrell (Jacobean Mugatu) Cyrus Arnold (Derek Zoolander Jr.) Fred Armisen (il VIP) Benedict Cumberbatch (All) Justin Bieber (sé stesso) Billy Zane (sé stesso) Kyle Mooney (Brad Wincon) Kanye West (August Campbell) Kim Kardashian (Trinitee Campbell) Beck Bennett (Geoff Mille) Cast completo Nathan Lee Graham (Todd) Milla Jovovich (Katinka Ingabogovinanana) Ariana Grande (Coco Chanel) Miley Cyrus (sé stessa) Demi Lovato (sé stessa) Joe Jonas (il marito di Coco Chanel) Lenny Kravitz (sé stesso) Macaulay Culkin (sé stesso) Lewis Hamilton (sé stesso) Mika (il parrucchiere)
Musica: Theodore Shapiro
Costumi: Leesa Evans
Scenografia: Jeff Mann
Fotografia: Daniel Mindel
Montaggio: Greg Hayden
Effetti Speciali: Daniel Acon (supervisore)
Makeup: Massimo Allinoro, Alan D'Angerio, Marco Perna e Matteo Silvi
Casting: Rachel Tenner
Scheda film aggiornata al:
29 Febbraio 2016
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Sinossi:
IN BREVE:
Il film torna a raccontare la vita di Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), il modello piĂč famoso al mondo. Le sue espressioni hanno cambiato radicalmente il mondo della moda ma ora Derek deve tornare nel mondo dell'alta moda per salvare le popstar del mondo.
Quando le persone piĂč belle del mondo vengono assassinate con la celebre espressione dell'ex modello Derek Zoolander Blue Steel stampata sulle loro facce, l'Interpol assume Derek e l'amico Hansel McDonald perchĂ© si infiltrino nel mondo dell'alta moda, molto cambiato da quello dei loro anni d'oro, per fermare gli omicidi. Intanto il nemico di Derek Jacobean Mugatu Ăš stato scarcerato ed Ăš in cerca di vendetta.
IN DETTAGLIO:
Blue Steel. Le Tigre. Magnum ... sono sufficientemente potenti da fermare una stella da lancio cinese e sventare i piani di conquista del mondo di un genio del male. Esiste solo un modello. E solo lui Ăš in grado di evocare tanta bellezza e potenza con una espressione... Derek Zoolander.
Lâultima volta che abbiamo visto i modelli Derek (Ben Stiller) e Hansel (Owen Wilson), si stavano godendo le meraviglie del "Centro Derek Zoolander per i Bambini Che Non Sanno Leggere Bene e Che Vogliono Imparare A Fare Anche Tante Altre Cose Buone", mentre Mugatu (Will Ferrell) era finito dietro le sbarre. Una catastrofe imprevista perĂČ colpisce il Centro e costringe i due a ritirarsi, e vivere fuori dal sistema.
Quindici anni piĂč tardi Derek e Hansel sono ancora oppressi dalla vergogna ed isolati, conducendo vite separate al di fuori dal resto del mondo. Quando entrambi ricevono un invito speciale per partecipare ad un grande evento internazionale di moda nellâantica e misteriosa cittĂ di Roma, non resistono al fascino di ritrovare il
successo di un tempo e rendere il loro viaggio un ritorno alla civiltĂ . Al loro arrivo, Derek e Hansel incontrano gli stilisti bizzarri ed eccentrici che sono dietro al nuovo impero dellâalta moda. I due si rendono conto immediatamente che il mondo della moda dei loro anni dâoro Ăš cambiato drasticamente, e vengono maldestramente e letteralmente ributtati sotto i riflettori. Mentre lottano per trovare il loro posto in questo nuovo e strano mondo del blogging, vlogging, e moda anti-moda, vengono reclutati per tentare di fermare un complotto mortale che, altrimenti, avrebbe distrutto per sempre le speranze di far tornare lâalta moda al suo venerabile e glorioso status. Solo Derek e Hansel hanno il potere di SALVARE LA MODA.
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Commento critico (a cura di JUSTIN CHANG, www.variety.com)
WE WAITED 15 YEARS ... FOR THIS?
It may have been a really, really ridiculously good-looking idea on paper, but Ben Stillerâs attempt to bring back one of his more beloved creations feels like a cheap designer knockoff in âZoolander 2.â Falling well below the standards of âAnchorman 2: The Legend Continuesâ (2014) in the long-delayed-sequel sweepstakes, this flailing follow-up drags the endearingly dim-witted Derek Zoolander out of retirement for an extended Roman holiday, backed by a parade of real-life celebrities and fashion-world denizens who are now very much in on the joke. If only that joke werenât so far past its sell-by date: 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 Stillerâs wannabe Magnum opus as a disappointment-slash-misfire, the orange mocha crappuccino of movie sequels.
Just as âAnchorman 2â |
nearly doubled the worldwide gross of its 2004 predecessor, so Paramountâs extravagantly marketed Feb. 12 release should handily overtake the original âZoolanderâsâ $60 million domestic haul, capitalizing on the now-widespread love for a movie (Terrence Malick is one of its biggest fans) that didnât really hit its stride, culturally and commercially, until it entered the home-viewing market. A highly quotable, deliriously off-the-wall spoof that approached its targets with a weird mix of sweetness and savagery, âZoolanderâ understandably took some time finding its audience. Bowing mere weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, Stillerâs movie provided some welcome distraction from a national trauma, even if a plot twist involving an assassination attempt on the Malaysian prime minister struck some as unforgivably tasteless (notably Roger Ebert, though he reversed his stance a few years later).
While it provided a convenient hook on which to hang one inspired burst of silliness after another, the espionage plot |
was easily the first filmâs least compelling element. Thereâs even more tiresome international intrigue afoot in âZoolander 2,â which kicks off with Justin Bieber being chased, cornered and machine-gunned to death â a violently protracted tableau that non-Beliebers will probably have converted into GIFs by weekâs end. Before he succumbs, the bullet-riddled pop star manages to post one last selfie on Instagram, his features frozen in what appears to be Derek Zoolanderâs famous brow-furrowed, pouty-lipped Blue Steel look (the impossibility of distinguishing among all these near-identical poses remains a key running gag).
Unfortunately, no one has seen Zoolander in years. As we learn in a lengthy catch-up sequence, the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Canât Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too fell on hard times shortly after it was built, separating our hero from his love interest, Matilda (Christine Taylor, blink and you miss her), |
and from their young son, Derek Jr. Miserable and forgotten, Zoolander has gone into self-imposed exile in the frigid northern wilds (of New Jersey), huddling alone in a cabin like the worldâs best-coiffed mountain man. Meanwhile, his estranged friend and ex-rival, Hansel (Owen Wilson), quit modeling after being disfigured in a freak accident, and now spends his days in the parched dunes (of Malibu), wearing a gold mask and having group sex like some yoga-loving Phantom of the Orgy.
And so itâs up to Billy Zane (once again playing himself) to track down these two feuding former Fabios and drag them back into the world of high fashion â specifically, to Rome, where theyâre welcomed into the enclave of a vaguely sinister, Donatella Versace-esque fashion empress named Alexanya Atoz (Kristen Wiig, all trout lips and tortured vowels). Alexanyaâs lavish, structurally precarious outfits represent by far the most outlandish of Leesa Evanâs |
cheeky costume designs, though for sheer style itâs hard to beat the form-fitting crimson jumpsuit worn by Valentina Valencia (Penelope Cruz), a special agent with âInterpolâs Global Fashion Divisionâ whoâs trying to find out whoâs killing off Bieber, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Demi Lovato, Lenny Kravitz and the worldâs other most beautiful people.
If that already sounds too plotty by half, we havenât even gotten to the inevitable return of Zoolanderâs clown-haired old nemesis, Mugatu (Will Ferrell, energetically nasty as ever), or the âDa Vinci Codeâ-style legend of a secret bloodline that may hold the key to eternal youth. And then thereâs the small matter of the long-lost Derek Jr. (Cyrus Arnold), a pudgy, socially awkward kid whoâs been holed up for years at an orphanage in (you guessed it) Rome. Their reunion is anything but a happy one. The boy has nothing but contempt for the dad who abandoned him, while |
Zoolander is ready to disown his son on the basis of the boyâs less-than-perfect physique: âIâm seriously thinking my fat son might be a terrible person.â
Thatâs one of the few halfway memorable lines in a script (penned by Stiller, Justin Theroux, John Hamburg and Nicholas Stoller) that otherwise takes what was once breezily enjoyable, if hit-or-miss, and turns it into something that feels awfully close to drudgery. Really, the dumb thing about âZoolander 2â is that it isnât nearly dumb enough: Rather than coasting along on a stream of blissful comic idiocy, it cobbles together a busy skein of twists and complications, as if the mental strain of following along might distract us from how crushingly unfunny it is. Things bog down further still with the incessant, obligatory callbacks to the original â look, itâs the Evil DJ! The assistant with the foamy latte! Did we mention Billy Zane? â |
which land with all the freshness of last decadeâs fashion craze. Call it fan service or franchise continuity, but the result is a movie that basically telegraphed its best material 15 years in advance.
Counteracting that tendency to some extent, the writers aim to deliver an up-to-the-minute spoof on the excesses of the fashion industry and the general toxicity of 21st-century celebrity culture. Much of this is embodied by Don Atari (Kyle Mooney), an insufferable young anti-fashion designer whoâs like all your worst hipster-douchebag nightmares rolled into one; heâs the kind of forward thinker who would set up a catwalk on an industrial waste site rather than at one of Romeâs famous landmarks (a few of which, including the Pantheon, the Spanish Steps and Cinecitta Studios, register fleetingly in d.p. Dan Mindelâs drive-by lensing). Annoying as he is, Atari serves as a reminder that the world of haute couture â already |
an easy target when Stiller first introduced us to Derek Zoolander at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards â has long since become its own parody of itself, making any attempt at spoofery redundant at best.
The first âZoolanderâ recognized this: It worked not by mocking the absurdity of the fashion scene, but by positioning Stiller and Wilson as absurd, improbably successful figures within that scene. Some (but not much) of the actorsâ combative chemistry remains here, and Stiller retains his gift for the well-chosen malapropism, whether heâs describing himself as a âlaughingstickâ or making unintentional reference to a white-supremacist group. But as actor and director, he seems to exhibit no overarching vision this time around, no sense of driving inspiration or even basic comic timing; the darkly subversive sensibility behind âThe Cable Guyâ and the few inspired patches of âTropic Thunderâ is entirely absent here.
Perhaps thatâs only to be expected from |
what ultimately feels less like a movie than an exercise in cross-promotional synergy â an excuse for Stiller and Wilson to don Valentino trenchcoats and sashay their way through Paris Fashion Week, blurring the line between a gag and a photo op. Not that the fashion industryâs embrace/co-opting of the âZoolanderâ phenomenon would matter if the end product were a movie worthy of an audienceâs love. There may not be enough satirical bite to âZoolander 2,â but there isnât enough honest affection or silliness, either: It just comes across as toothless and scattershot, whether itâs trotting out Benedict Cumberbatch as a gender-ambivalent supermodel named All, or padding the later scenes with self-mocking (really self-flattering) cameos by Valentino, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger and Anna Wintour.
Those brief cutaways â which are so poorly integrated they might have been filmed in a Siberian meat locker â are at least more germane |
than the surreally random one-scene appearances of celebrities like Katy Perry, Susan Sarandon, Sting and Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is sadly unable to rationalize the movieâs existence from a cosmological point of view. Presumably Donald Trump was too busy campaigning to make a return visit, but whatever he was up to, it was assuredly more entertaining than this. |
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Bibliografia:
Nota: Si ringraziano universal Pictures International Italy e Xister Pressplay.
Pressbook:
PRESSBOOK Completo in ITALIANO di ZOOLANDER 2
Links:
• Zoolander 2
(BLU-RAY)
Galleria Fotografica:
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