Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Exuberant and insidiously funny satire.

Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach

Well-paced, scathingly funny satire of the fashion industry and its eminently lampoonable pomposity.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Something this gleefully goofy and consistently funny would be welcome in any environment.

Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan

Works like a funnier "Austin Powers" -- you laugh just enough to want to see the whole thing again.

Film Threat by Chris Gore

Stiller is laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish and anyone that may quibble about plot minutiae, is just not ready to have a good time.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Stiller performs a good balancing act not only with his many jobs on this movie but also in keeping the big picture firmly in mind. It's not always easy to be both silly and smart, but Stiller for the most part pulls it off.

Mr. Showbiz by Kevin Maynard

Basically one elaborate joke about male modeling and all the vanity, emasculation, and fatuousness that attend it. Fortunately, it's a good joke.

L.A. Weekly by F. X. Feeney

One's laughter builds on such a rising curve that memories of its flaws burn away.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

The result is a freakishly potent farce.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

The humor is simple but far from dumb. The dueling "walk-off" between rival male mannequins is inspired, as are the sly juxtapositions of the male model's faux physicality with such real-world demands as coal mining.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

Isn't always on the money, but when it is, it really is.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

The gags hit more than they miss, and Stiller has moments of inspired absurdity, but he's capable of something more cutting and clever. It's junk food moviemaking: fun to snack on, but hardly a substantial meal.

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

It's to Stiller's credit that he can sustain the joke for the length of the movie, but just barely. Ten more minutes of Zoolander would have been 10 minutes too many.

New Times (L.A.) by Robert Wilonsky

Like all films constructed out of pop-culture effluvia, Zoolander runs the risk of being so last month; this is a movie that treats Fabio as the ultimate punch line and regards David Bowie as the prince of style.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

When he's playing a relatively normal guy ringed by eccentrics, as in "There's Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents," Stiller can be flat-out funny. In Zoolander, he's just one nutso among many, and he cancels himself out.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

Even though it’s mostly pleasant and sometimes funny, Zoolander could use some sort of boost.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

In theory, Zoolander is ''Pret-à-Porter'' on laughing gas. In practice, however, the movie is an ill-fitting suit of gags, too long in the crotch even at 90 minutes.