{"id":20159,"date":"2015-08-02T21:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=20159"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T22:25:01","slug":"first-zoolander-2-trailer-reminds-us-power-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/first-zoolander-2-trailer-reminds-us-power-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Zoolander 2 Trailer Reminds Us of the Power of Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A film of greater legend than\u00a0<em>Anchorman\u00a0<\/em>and even greater relevance than the rest of Ben Stiller&#8217;s career,\u00a0<em>Zoolander\u00a0<\/em>was exactly the thing that everyone wanted more of, but was too afraid to ask for. Worry not, for Hollywood&#8217;s most prolific creation are those films with the number 2 in them. The first\u00a0<em>Zoolander 2 <\/em>trailer\u00a0is here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09nTwccQTUA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I had the pleasure of watching this in an actual movie theater before knowing about it, which means the bait and switch kind of worked &#8211; Zoolander himself doesn&#8217;t show up on screen until more than a minute in. The result was a sense of surprise I hadn&#8217;t felt since Zoolander turned left and finally delivered Magnum. I&#8217;m glad I had the chance to ruin that opportunity for you in this very post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Magnum-Zoolander.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20163\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Magnum-Zoolander.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Magnum Zoolander 2 Trailer\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Magnum-Zoolander.jpg 850w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Magnum-Zoolander-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a>However, upon second viewing, the\u00a0<em>Zoolander 2\u00a0<\/em>trailer did drop a few hints before its big reveal. After all, I&#8217;m not sure the word Eugoogly is in the dictionary, nor does a No Left Turn sign warrant placement among the human brain&#8217;s most accomplished creations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Eugoogly-Zoolander-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20166\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Eugoogly-Zoolander-2.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Eugoogly Zoolander 2 Trailer\" width=\"1397\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Eugoogly-Zoolander-2.png 1397w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Eugoogly-Zoolander-2-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Eugoogly-Zoolander-2-1024x534.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1397px) 100vw, 1397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Left-Turn-Zoolander-2-Trailer.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20167\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Left-Turn-Zoolander-2-Trailer.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"No Left Turn Zoolander 2 Trailer\" width=\"1402\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Left-Turn-Zoolander-2-Trailer.png 1402w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Left-Turn-Zoolander-2-Trailer-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Left-Turn-Zoolander-2-Trailer-1024x557.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1402px) 100vw, 1402px\" \/><\/a>Okay there were a lot of hints, Mermen and dancing monkeys chief among them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zoolander 2\u00a0<\/em>is hitting theaters, according to a couple of websites, on Feb. 12, 2016, though the end of this trailer suggests that may be in flux. In addition to Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and Christine Taylor returning in their respective roles,\u00a0<em>Zoolander 2\u00a0<\/em>is adding the likes of Kristen Wiig, Olivia Munn and Fred Armisen to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Also listed on the IMDB page for this movie are Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber. Hopefully those aren&#8217;t the only celebrity cameos in the final film. West also appeared in Ferrell&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,\u00a0<\/em>ever capitalizing on his carefully cultivated, Zoolander-like\u00a0public image.<\/p>\n<p>Why\u00a0<em>did\u00a0<\/em>God make ugly people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film of greater legend than\u00a0Anchorman\u00a0and even greater relevance than the rest of Ben Stiller&#8217;s career,\u00a0Zoolander\u00a0was exactly the thing that everyone wanted more of, but was too afraid to ask for. Worry not, for Hollywood&#8217;s most prolific creation are those films with the number 2 in them. The first\u00a0Zoolander 2 trailer\u00a0is here. I had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":20167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[164,1353],"class_list":["post-20159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-trailers","tag-zoolander-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20159"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20172,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions\/20172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}