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10. Zoolander
It's a perfect storm this one, an unholy combination of nonsense that represents the high point of this brand of comedy. I'm not a massive fan of this mob - your Stillers, your Ferrells, your Wilsons. Your Billy Zanes - but something here just seems to click and you end up with an inspired mix of silliness and quotability (shamefully, I hardly ever cough without adding shortly after, "I think I've got the black lung Pop.") Perhaps it succeeds because there is absolutely no attempt at winning the audience's sympathy. Unlike, say, Dodgeball or Meet the Parents, Zoolander doesn't invite you to emotionally engage with the characters. You couldn't, since they're barely even recognisable as human. It's farce at it's purest, and it hammers away relentlessly with its unique daftness. This relentlessness means that at no point do you roll your eyes at attempts at poignancy or redemption - the spell of ridiculousness is never broken. Like the models themselves, it is fundamentally pointless, vacuous even. It doesn't mean anything, and it doesn't try to, instead it just tries to be stupider and stupider and funnier and funnier. And gosh, it succeeds.