Is it like The Life Aquatic and thigh-slappingly hilarious if only you belong to the right Mensa club which understands this is thigh-slappingly funny?
I’m afraid I didn’t get it. Nor do I get most movies Owen Wilson appears in. Apparently he has slept with all the important Hollywood executives or something? And he’s actually good in bed? Even with that nose which makes me want to constantly avert my eyes?
Couldn’t a few thousand bucks fix that?
It has it’s inspired moments - the sex scene with the monk, the gas fight, the spa scene brainwashing dream sequence with Will Ferrell. Haaaapeee! Eh, pretty much any scene with Will Ferrell. He was good in that.
It looks like Owen Wilson’s mother was having trouble giving birth so somebody used a pair of pliers to pull him out by the nose. That’s my take on it.
They could be showing Marci X so count your blessings.
I thought it was a great movie. Inspired, even.
Loved the 2001 parody too.
It’s grown on me. (And it does always seem to be playing somewhere on TV – I saw it last night on Comedy Central.) There’s some funny stuff there.
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As mentioned, I think there are several inspired moments. I loved the gasoline fight, personally. And some of Ferrell’s jokes are great fun too. It isn’t in the actual jokes themselves mostly, it’s the delivery alone. I can’t think of any other comedian that would make me smile simply by saying “Derelicte”.
There are parts that bother me though. I think Jerry Stiller’s part was a missed opportunity. I know that he’s Ben’s father and all of the inside jokes that comes with that, but still. It seemed like he deserved some better lines.
Oh and I find Wes Anderson’s films to be much more subtle. For the record.
He is sooo hot right now.
They’re break-dance fighting!
Your mistake indeed!
They’ve got a motherfucking walkoff…with David Bowie. It’s one of the very few Ben Stiller movies I like.
And Derelicte is freaking inspired.
Hey anyone who doesn’t like this movie can Dere-lick my balls!
The rumor was that Owen Wilson considered himself too pretty and broke his nose on purpose.
The truth, more pedestrian:
IMDB: Usually declines to discuss the source of his distinctive-looking nose, which was clearly broken at one time. The broken nose was apparently the result of a football injury attained while on the football team in high school (all three Wilson brothers had played high school football, the elder Andrew with the greatest success).
The bridge of Owen Wilson’s nose is an hourglass of bone: twice-smashed and corseted by cartilage, it speaks of off-center sensibilities. First broken in high school and then again during flag football at the University of Texas, it will not be ignored. Brando’s broken nose only emphasized his beauty and Mickey Rourke literally effaced himself through facelifts and boxing, but Wilson simply kept himself interesting. This spin intensified the pleasure he took in playing Zoolander’s mindless male model Hansel. …His looks are too eccentric to play straight. “I must look like a freak,” he said, “but if I were to change it I would get so much grief from my brothers.”
As you hinted at in your OP, it is one of those films (Mystery Men is another) that was panned by some critics, had no so great box office, and looks like its stupid, but is actually really intelligent and really funny.
I think the great fun of this movie is the inspired delivery (especially by Farrell) of its sheer stupidity, coupled with its eminent quotability. There’s not anything to “get”. Face it: there’s nothing more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking.
I guess there’s a moral in there somewhere.
I thought the ending was kinda cute. A school for kids aren’t so good at reading but want to be good at other stuff. Or something like that.
My brother’s answering machine message was, “I invented the piano key neck tie! I invented it!”
It was hilarious, you call him up and hear Will Ferrell yelling for five seconds then you hear a beep. The first time I heard it I didn’t know what the hell to do.
Just thought I’d share.
Have you tried Bottle Rocket? Owen did some of the writing too which, at times, is supurb.
Zoolander’s not the Life Aquatic. Zoolander was funny. No one in the Life Aquatic died in a freak-gasoline-fight-accident.
I’m not sure if I’ve seen that or not but I’m willing to watch anything with Luke Wilson in it.
Wes Anderson movies make me nervous though. I see it’s one of his earlier works. Maybe it’ll help me figure out what his original genius was.