Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Zoolander 2 sweats its silly ass off to please. The results are scattershot. But when it works - oh, baby.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Zoolander" captured its moment, and so does "Zoolander 2." It skewers the preening emptiness of contemporary culture with the help of people who are part of it.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
There are some clever bits and the satire is at times scathing but, on the whole, moments of hilarity are like oases in a desert of tedium. When Zoolander 2 isn't funny, the silliness strains the viewer's patience.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
While all comedies get refined in the editing room, this one feels like it was slapped together there, as Stiller - who also directed - searched for laughs.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Zoolander 2" is just another lazy grab bag of sketch ideas acted out by "Saturday Night Live" cast members and alumni, each of whom comes up with a schtick and then beats it into the ground.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Some movies keep you in a state of suspense. "Zoolander 2," a dud glitter-bomb of a sequel, eventually leaves you in a state of suspended animation, with eyes glazed over and brain in sleep mode.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
An incoherent and idiotic mess.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Stiller and company uphold the Zoolander brand with honor.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
A cavalcade of gags that fall flat and cameo appearances that are more impressive on a look-who-they-got scale than for inspiring any mirth.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Zoolander No. 2 is embarrassing, lazy, and aggressively unfunny. The only good news is that at the pace the franchise is moving, we won't get Zoolander 3 until 2030.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The imbecilic charms of a character that began as TV sketch material are too often misplaced in this wildly over-plotted, under-energized action comedy, plumped to bursting point with celebrity cameos.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
How bad is Zoolander 2? It's Batman and Robin bad.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Some people find Derek Zoolander funny and likable and endearingly dumb. I don't. I find him grating.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Amounts to a parade of celebrity cameos masquerading as a movie.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
For every laugh that Zoolander 2 elicits, there's a pang that all this was funnier the first time around.

Name : Nico Lang / Alias : Salon.com
There's no reason the movie had to be this terrible.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Is "Zoolander 2" one "Zoolander" too many? The answer, unfortunately, is yes more than no.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
The orange mocha crappuccino of movie sequels.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
Zoolander 2 takes pains to reference every successful gag you remember from the original, and then embellish them in painful-often offensive, almost always outdated-fashion.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
It is merely dumb when it should be knowingly dumb; satirically dull when it should be sharp; and just plain ugly when it should be, at the very least, aesthetically minded.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Almost all of "Zoolander 2" is like that draggy last 20 minutes of "SNL," when every half-decent idea has been exhausted and the only reason the show is still going is because there's time to fill up.

Name : Kate Lloyd / Alias : Time Out
As funny, silly and lovingly teasing as anyone could have hoped.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
A mostly agreeable but empty-headed mess. It's sort of the movie equivalent of Derek Zoolander himself.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Moviegoers may wish that Will Ferrell's megalomaniacal supervillain Mugatu had won in the first Zoolander and saved us from another film with these boneheads.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
Zoolander 2 seems like the result of a 15-year game of "exquisite corpse," the surrealist exercise where different writers add to a story independent of each other, strand by strand, without full knowledge of previous contributions.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Like its title fool, Zoolander 2 wants desperately to be adored, despite coming hopelessly late to the party.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"Zoolander 2" has enough plots for several movies. They are so jammed together that they more or less cancel each other out.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The first film scored a few palpable hits, but the new one barely makes the effort, and the poise of a work like "Funny Face," which both mocked and feted a devotion to couture, seems an impossible dream.

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
It's surprisingly conventional, but not in a reassuring or back-to-basics way; its set ups and jokes are creaky and labored, its characters stock and strait-jacketed.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
It's a bizarre and pointless spectacle, but not an unamusing one.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Slate
[Zoolander 2] trades its predecessor's absurdist joys for the same derivative bombast that made Anchorman 2 such a disappointing slog.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Sadly, the promised zings and arrows never fly in "Zoolander 2," which with the exception of a mildly clever opening sequence, steadfastly avoids pointed satire in an attempt simply to cash in, tread water and peace out.

Name : Melissa Anderson / Alias : Village Voice
As my screening companion wisely noted as we left the theater: "The era of the male comedian is over."

Name : Gersh Kuntzman / Alias : New York Daily News
Did you like "Zoolander"? Good, then you'll like "Zoolander 2."

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
This ill-advised repeat resembles unsalvageable messes like "Caddyshack II," "Dumb and Dumber To" and "Blues Brothers 2000."

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
This sequel ups the ante so relentlessly that you may find yourself pining for a relaxing night of watching the 2001 original.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Sticking Derek and Hansel in a world now dominated by smartphones, social media and selfie sticks gave the writers plenty to lampoon, but it's squandered instead on the odd hashtag joke and Netflix plug .

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
When Kiefer Sutherland is the funniest person in your movie, you have a problem.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The script is so weak that chuckles of recognition become the lion's share of the comedy.

Name : Preston Jones / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
As unnecessary sequels go, Zoolander 2 is relatively painless and generally amusing, and only occasionally strains for its punchlines - the climactic confrontation, in particular, tips from silliness into outright inanity.