Hamlet 2
2008 Directed by Andrew Fleming
Synopsis
One high school drama teacher is about to make a huge number 2.
From the same people that brought you "Little Miss Sunshine," Hamlet 2 is the story of Dana Marschz, a high school drama teacher facing the cancellation of his program. A spoof on the typical story of bringing inner city and privileged youth together to succeed, this offbeat comedy contains a hilarious musical finale.
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Well, this was just crap. The only reason I wanted to watch this film was for two reasons:
- It was on BBC1 Saturday night (nothing else on)
- A vague recollection of seeing this being reviewed in Empire Magazine. The trouble was that the magazine belonged to a stranger on the Tube and I could only see it reading it over her shoulder. I could never finish it as I suddenly realised that madam had a very low cut top and although the cleavage was impressive, my police record was not and I had to quickly stop.With this in mind, I thought, "well let's watch this". I saw Steve Coogan was in it and so I decided to…
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One of the funniest films I've ever seen, it doesn't really go anywhere for a while then explodes into inspired madness. The highlight is the song "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus". I remember hearing about this some time before it was released then not hearing anything else about it, perhaps it tanked or went straight to "video"... Anyway, it is a masterpiece, possibly Sexy Jesus' best film...
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Rock me sexy Jesus this is good.
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Good Comedy, fab songs and Coogan is a comedy god.
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ROCK ME SEXY JESUS is one of the most genius musical numbers of all time. A severely underrated comedy. Some hilarious one-liners and some brilliant comedic performances.
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Steve Coogan is pure genius.
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second best musical of all time
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One of the funniest films I've ever seen, it doesn't really go anywhere for a while then explodes into inspired madness. The highlight is the song "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus". I remember hearing about this some time before it was released then not hearing anything else about it, perhaps it tanked or went straight to "video"... Anyway, it is a masterpiece, possibly Sexy Jesus' best film...
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I really liked Coogan in this but overall this is just not a great film, it's sort of funny but not enough to really get me in stitches.
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Sadly, it isn't possible to give a film a negative rating. I saw this film on the recommendation of a friend who later told me he wanted someone else to watch it just so we could collectively share in the misery of having seen this film. I'm all for absurdist comedies but this one was simply to strange and off the wall for me.
Is there anyway to ask for 92 minutes of my life back?
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Rock me sexy Jesus this is good.
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Hilarious and South Park-esque.
I'll admit the first 75 minutes of this movie, there's a lot of stuff they include that I didn't care about, but it was still enjoyable and easily forgivable. The last 20 minutes of this are absolutely terrific though and almost entirely make up for any small problems I had. Steve Coogan's my man.
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Grossly underrated at the time of its release and grossly under seen since, Hamlet 2 is a cult classic waiting to be discovered. Dana Marschz (a hilarious Steve Coogan, in one of the best comedic performances in recent memory) is a failed actor stuck teaching high school drama and in a dead end marriage with an acerbic wife (Catherine Keener, who makes the most of her small screen time) who barely conceals her disappointment. When the theater program is threatened with cancellation, Dana pulls out all the stops to create the most controversial work of fiction in the history of Tuscon Arizona High School Theater—a sequel to Hamlet that features a time machine, group sex, Elton John, swordfights, Jesus Christ,…
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Wasn't really satisfying, the movie never found it's mark and it just kept hitting strange notes. A couple of funny moments but nothing special.
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Watching Hamlet 2, it’s hard not to think of Christopher Guest’s classic community theatre satire Waiting for Guffman, in which the eccentric residents of small-town Blaine, Missouri, put on a play celebrating the town’s 150th anniversary. That film was both a celebration of the common man’s love for the spotlight as well as a good-natured lampooning of the ridiculous and often passionate personalities that find themselves drawn to the stage. Much like Guffman, Hamlet 2 focuses on a failed-actor-turned-drama instructor who lives vicariously through the grandiose yet ill-conceived ideas he executes in a small town venue. (In Guffman, for example, there was a musical version of Backdraft; in Hamlet 2, a stage adaptation of Erin Brockovich.) There’s a striking difference…