Hamlet 2
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 21, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve Coogan & Catherine Keener | |
Performer: | Amy Poehler, David Arquette, Elisabeth Shue & Melonie Diaz | |
Directed by | Andrew Fleming | |
Screenwriting by | Andrew Fleming & Pam Brady | |
Composition by | Ralph Sall | |
Produced by | Eric Eisner, Aaron Ryder & Leonid Rozhetskin | |
Director of Photography: | Alexander Gruszynski | |
Executive Production by | Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Andrew Fleming, Pam Brady & Michael Flynn |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: D+ --
Oddly, what's supposed to be a great comedy about a bad play is in fact a bad comedy about a play that looks pretty frigging amazing
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I.E. Weekly
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Moments of demented inspiration as the ridiculously catchy ditty 'Rock Me Sexy Jesus' are few and far between.
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TheMovieReport.com
For anyone who ever took drama in High School, Coogan's character will surely ignite memories of quirky, even downright crazy teachers you may have encountered over the years.
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At the Movies
[Featuring] Coogan's unbelievably adept performance as Dana -- a sustained tour de force of comic acting comparable to the late, great Peter Sellers at his absolute best.
Box Office
Rating: 2/5 --
High school theater spoof lacks some spark.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: B --
We are never entirely sure what the hell happens, only that Hamlet is given a chance to set everything right. And that a lot of it is set to New Wave.
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Willamette Week
The funniest Shakespearean sequel since Richard IV.
At the Movies
Product Description:
Much like the inspired protagonists of his two favorite movies, DEAD POETS SOCIETY and MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS, high school drama teacher Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) is going to save the arts. Marschz's first obstacle: Shakespeare killed off all the major characters when he wrote Hamlet, which puts a damper on his plans for a musical sequel. Luckily, Marschz has an ingenious literary device to circumvent that last doozy: a time machine built in woodshop that will catapult Hamlet and his new pal, Jesus Christ, into the present day and back again just in time to save Gertrude, Laertes, and the gang. This brilliant piece of theatre is born in the mind of Marschz upon the announcement of the drama club's impending cancellation, prompting the failed actor to take the advice of a ruthless freshman drama critic and finally write something that isn't an adaptation of ERIN BROCKOVICH. But when authorities try to have the production banned because of its offensive material, it's going to take the inspiration of actress-turned-local-nurse Elisabeth Shue (playing herself), the will of Marschz's young students, and the wiles of a feisty lawyer (Amy Poehler) to get Hamlet 2 in front of an audience.
HAMLET 2, the movie, is singular in its melding of grotesque theatre spoofing, schadenfreude, and complete subversion of the underdog-defiance genre's familiar trajectory. Rarely has a film hit conventional plot points only to take the wind out of their sails so effectively while nevertheless moving toward a destination not entirely unlike where its mainstream counterparts would go anyway. HAMLET 2's subdued lack of traditional filmic values and glaring music cues, as well as its performances, which manage to fold earnestness and deadpan into one another, amount to a movie that simultaneously deconstructs, skewers, and affirms. Like any good satire, it is what it's lampooning.
HAMLET 2, the movie, is singular in its melding of grotesque theatre spoofing, schadenfreude, and complete subversion of the underdog-defiance genre's familiar trajectory. Rarely has a film hit conventional plot points only to take the wind out of their sails so effectively while nevertheless moving toward a destination not entirely unlike where its mainstream counterparts would go anyway. HAMLET 2's subdued lack of traditional filmic values and glaring music cues, as well as its performances, which manage to fold earnestness and deadpan into one another, amount to a movie that simultaneously deconstructs, skewers, and affirms. Like any good satire, it is what it's lampooning.
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- Sales Rank: 41,643
- UPC: 025195038201
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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