20 Worst Movies Of 2016 (So Far)

5. Zoolander 2

Worst Fims Of 2016
Paramount

If you didn't bet that Zoolander 2 was going to be an absolute disaster a long time before it was released, you probably weren't paying enough attention.

Released unexpectedly, and entirely unnecessarily 15 years after the original, Zoolander 2 seems to have ignored everything that made the original so popular (if anyone can actually explain what that was, other than two very funny gags, I will be seriously indebted to them) and instead relied on daft, hollow celebrity cameos.

If you've had the misfortune of seeing the Keith Lemon movie, it's just like that, only with more money erroneously spent on it and Ben Stiller with thoroughly unlikeable mode turned up to 11. There are a couple of okay gags worthy of a smile, but there are way too few outright laughs and in the end it's hard not to think the plot's message that Zoolander isn't relevant any more is painfully on the button.

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