Hamlet 2
Hamlet 2 (2008)

Hamlet 2

1/5
(16 votes)
6.3IMDb54Metascore

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Cast

Goofs

When the drama students are forbidden to stage their play on school property, they move the show to a warehouse used for raves because promoters won't be using it because they are at Burning Man Festival in Nevada.

But the play supposedly takes place near end of traditional school year (May or June) and Burning Man always takes place on Labor Day, in September.

Arizona does not issue license plates for the front of cars, though several vehicles are seen with plates on the front.

After Mr.

Marschz trips on acid, the police find him naked from the waist down on an abandoned couch.

When he is picked up and escorted to a car, his shirt parts briefly and we can see that he is wearing flesh colored underwear.

When Brie Marschz (Catherine Keener) and Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) are arguing in the Mexican restaurant in the middle of their argument, the margarita glass disappears when the camera cuts to Catherine and returns when the camera cuts back to Dana.

In Hamlet 2, the play within the movie, Hamlet forgives his father, but Hamlet has nothing for which to forgive his father in Shakespeare's play.

If there's anyone Hamlet could forgive it's his father's murderers, Hamlet's mother and uncle.

However, even though this could be a mistake on the Dana Marschz's part, he does prove himself knowledgeable of Hamlet, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to write a sequel.

In the newspaper clipping, "The Price of Free Speech", (38:20) the prose is complete gobbledegook.

Awards

Gold Derby Awards 2009


Gold Derby Award
Original Song

Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2008


HFCS Award
Best Original Song

Box Office

DateAreaGross
28 September 2008 USA USD 4,881,867
21 September 2008 USA USD 4,857,521
14 September 2008 USA USD 4,784,111
7 September 2008 USA USD 4,359,680
31 August 2008 USA USD 3,152,510
DateAreaGrossScreens
22 August 2008 USA USD 439,925 103
DateAreaGrossScreens
28 September 2008 USA USD 11,467 29
21 September 2008 USA USD 31,252 56
14 September 2008 USA USD 110,532 168
7 September 2008 USA USD 826,531 1,575
31 August 2008 USA USD 2,126,310 1,597

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Reviews

This movie was just so interesting to watch, the main character just brings so much life into the movie and turns it into a funny, interesting and non gay journey.To put this movie in a nutshell i would have to say that it is just like a South Park Movie brought to life because it contains ridiculously insane comedy and randomness of beyond belief.

To start, let me say that if you don't like comedy that relies heavily on profanity, you won't like this movie. If you don't like satire and social commentary that is concealed by curse words, you won't like this movie.

Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) is a failed actor and recovering alcoholic who is teaching high school drama in Tucson. He's plagued by bad reviews by a little kid, his class is being canceled next semester, most of his students aren't interested in drama, and his wife Brie (Catherine Keener) is trying to get pregnant.

Those who can't do, teach and so it goes for failed writer/actor Dana Marschz, who finds himself living with his wife in Tucson, Arizona teaching drama – normally to a class of two. The reviews are consistently poor but he carries on unabated and seeming unaware of his own limitations.

Satire and parody can be a g-dsend if done right, and for most of this movie it is done right. The overall premise is that we have a bad actor who never quite made it (the beginning sequences where we see what he did as an actor are quite good), and somehow manages to become a drama teacher at a high school in Tucson, Arizona.

This is not a review of the overall movie but instead a review of one (significant) part: Elisabeth Shue. Although she's just a secondary character in the film, I found myself riveted to her performance and laughing riotously at everything she did.

The idea for the movie was inspired by my theatre students and I at Ironwood Ridge High School in Tucson, AZ in 2004.It was my first year at the school and two brilliant theatre students who had an amazing mom teaching history at the school presented the idea for producing "Cannibal the Musical" at the school.

OK where do I start? This has got to be one of the worst movies I ever have seen my entire lifetime.

Ah, how refreshing to find a comedy that isn't just gross-out gags, sentimental chick flick trash, or predictable Hollywood tripe... while Hamlet 2 isn't brilliant, and it isn't the funniest thing I've seen ever, it certainly carries its own, and this is largely in part due to Steve Coogan's performance.

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