Review of Hamlet 2 (2008) by Marya V — 25 Dec 2009
Very much a hit or miss comedy that tries to parody inspirational teacher movies such as “Dangerous Minds�; a good movie to have in the background while you are doing something else.
Steve Coogan actually starts the film by explaining to other characters that the movie is meant to be a parody of the teacher-movie subgenre (thanks, I wouldn’t have gotten that on my own).
He then proceeds to throw a flurry of often offensive jokes against the celluloid to see what will stick – most of them don’t. For some reason Coogan uses Tucson, Arizona as the butt of many of the jokes (“the good thing about coming from Tucson is that everywhere seems cool�).
I’m not sure if Tucson is as awful as he portrays and I’m not sure the rest of the audience would either which sort of limits the funny. He uses his failed actor character as the butt of most of the jokes portraying him as such a loser that no empathy is built and we really don’t care when he eventually succeeds in pulling together his sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
This review of Hamlet 2 (2008) was written by Marya V on 25 Dec 2009.
Hamlet 2 has generally received mixed reviews.
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