by Maya Girimaji, features editor

Released on the same day as Marvel’s new movie “Deadpool,” “Zoolander Two” was probably only watched for three reasons: 1. You’re not old enough to watch “Deadpool” 2. “Deadpool” was sold out and you were already at the theater, so why not watch Ben Stiller’s new movie? 3. You actually wanted to watch it.

Why did I watch it? Combine 1 and 3 and you get my reason. The original “Zoolander” was hilarious and my whole family had high expectations for the second one, but sadly, the movie failed to satisfy our hopes.

The beginning looked promising. It started off with a hooded man running through the dark streets of Rome while being chased by people on motorcycles. The hooded man was soon revealed to be the one and only Justin Bieber (and no, I’m not saying I liked the beginning because of Justin Bieber. It was actually a good beginning). A few minutes later the chase came to an end and Bieber was shot multiple times, pausing to take a selfie before dying. (The moment he died, my hopes for this movie died with him.)

The rest of the movie was a blur of inappropriate and lame jokes. A five year old could come up with better jokes. The scenes were childish and the plot line looked rushed. It was like the creators had 5 different ideas for this movie and decided to mix them all together in a giant melting pot to create something amazing. But they failed, miserably.

And don’t be fooled by the many cameos of well-known celebrities like Madonna, Miley Cyrus and Bruce Springsteen. Just because Katy Perry showed up in the movie doesn’t mean that the movie was Katy Perry-worthy. It seemed like the movie was made entirely of cameos, probably because the writers ran out of original ideas and decided that showing faces of celebrities would bring in all of the money. And will somebody please explain to me why so many of these big stars even agreed to be in such a movie?

To conclude, don’t watch this movie unless you’re willing to waste two hours of your life. There was no redeeming feature that would make you actually want to sit through this unimaginative and monotonous movie. Plus, the acting was terrible. To say the least, I was incredibly disappointed.  If you do end up watching the movie, I promise you will either fall asleep or demand for your money back. Or both.