Don't eugoogolize the Zoolander franchise yet. According to its newly-released trailer, the 2001 comedy's long-awaited sequel looks like it just might deliver a bracing shot of Blue Steel.
Zoolander 2 -- or 2oolander, according to its title card, a name that's as smartly stupid as the first movie's best jokes (so it's pronounced two-oo-lander?) -- picks up over a decade after the original, in a fashion world that's changed enormously from the one Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) once knew.
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Social media stars and ambiguously gendered waifs -- like Benedict Cumberbatch, nearly unrecognizable as a vaguely Andreja Pejic-esque model -- have replaced traditional strutters; Zoolander and his pal Hansel (Owen Wilson) have been reduced to old, lame (lamé?) curiosities.
Everything changes, though, when a smoking hot Interpol agent (Penélope Cruz, obviously) shows up to recruit our heroes for a new mission: Someone is killing "the world's most beautiful people," and only Han-Solo and Boo-Lander can stop them.
Press play for the full trailer, which features a few glimpses of the sequel's exotic locales and new players -- including Kristen Wiig, Kyle Mooney and Justin Bieber, giving his best Blue Steel -- as well as a couple very welcome familiar faces. (Apparently, Todd (Nathan Lee Graham) still isn't aware that Mugatu (Will Ferrell) gets farty and bloated with a foamy latte.)