It is a parody of 1980s Saturday morning cartoons, depicting Derek Zoolander and Hansel McDonald as superheroes. Ben Stiller, who oversaw the work's production, gave the writers notes asking them to tone down some of the jokes to keep it similar to the PG-13 content of the original film, so while it would still be geared towards adults, it wouldn't be so adult that younger viewers couldn't watch it.[2]
Yahoo! Movies' Ryan Leston wrote "Zoolander: Super Model has made it to Netflix as one streamable file with a runtime of 84 minutes… but it doesn't feel like one single story. Instead, it feels more like a miniseries that has been edited together and dumped online to cut its losses. Probably in the hope that no one would be stupid enough to watch it."[6]