I doubt we would have ever watched this very funny movie if we hadn't discovered that Our Winona has an un-credited role in it. We're not sure why she didn't even get billing as "herself" as so many other cameos did. She actually had a small speaking part, where so many others who did get credit did not. (
James offers this guess: this was apparently filmed before her shoplifting arrest and released after. Of course, plenty of people with much more serious rap sheets appear in film credits all the time.)
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This cult film features Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolander, an empty-headed male model who discovers that he has been brainwashed into killing the Prime Minister of Malaysia. With the help of a reporter from
Time magazine -- Marcia Brady look-alike Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor) -- and his rival Hansel (Owen Wilson), Zoolander tries to thwart the assassination attempt instead. Will Farrell has a relatively small but delicious role, leading us to have our annual viewing of
Elf right after this show.
This is a pretty goofy movie - very funny at a sophomoric level, but not to be taken for anything else, aside from a very light brush with social justice in the very beginning of the film. A red-carpet emcee dismisses concerns about "ugly protesters bothering beautiful people" over slave labor in the fashion industry, but this is not a major theme of the film.
Final Verdict: Four Croquet Balls
