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Every Ben Stiller Movie Performance, Ranked
Audiences have come to know and love many Stiller personas: jester, auteur, control freak, buff daddy.
Male nurse Gaylord — whose toxically masculine insecurities about his overbearing father-in-law, Jack (Robert De Niro), regularly lead him to bullshit his loving, loyal wife (Teri Polo) — is now a Chicago hotshot who sacrifices his integrity by hawking off-brand Viagra to charm a Big Pharma rep (Jessica Alba). Despite a disturbing opening sequence filled with weirdly bubbly mammalian asses swaying in unison, this slight sequel still contains a few unexpected pleasures: a mid– 30 Rock Alec Baldwin as a dastardly pompadoured lion; Sacha Baron Cohen’s mischievous King Julien’s constant abuse of Andy Richter’s Mort; this brain-melting crap. The film is anchored by Stiller’s Josh Kovaks, who manages the struggling employees of a Trump-style tower and acts as a friend to all of them when the pissant billionaire owner (Alan Alda) goes full Madoff (his working victims are played by a litany of world-class character actors: Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe, Stephen McKinley-Henderson, Nina Arianda).
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