GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Wordiezett So much average

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

richirwin The first 10 minutes of this movie was laughing-out-loud funny and the rest of the movie was not far behind. I am a big Steve Coogan fan and this is probably his best comedy. Throw in Elizabeth Shue playing herself and Amy Poehler as an ACLU lawyer and you have a quite a movie. Steve Coogan's character writes the Hamlet 2 play for his High School drama class. It is a time-traveling musical which features Jesus Christ in a major role. The musical numbers are done very well with some very funny lyrics.Some of my favorite scenes involve the Steve Coogan character talking with his harshest critic - a young student at the school who offers Coogan some sage advice.

mrdonleone yes, I do know a lot about Shakespeare, I collect his plays and movies based upon them. but if you expect this to be Shakespeare, you'll be very disappointed. instead, if you watch this movie expecting to laugh a lot, you probably will. the jokes in Hamlet 2 are funny haha but not hoho (haha with the mouth and hoho with the belly - belly laugh rules!). it's funny, but not supertrooper funny. or, if you like supertroopers, it's supertrooper funny, but not American Pie. then again, American Pie couldn't lick the boots of Some like it HOt, but that's another story. why is Hamlet 2 a good movie for 12 year old? probably because they don't know a thing about Shakespeare. if you don't know Shakespeare and you're too young to be able to appreciate movies, you will laugh yourself to death with Hamlet 2. that's the point of it all. you'll be dead laughing before the picture is over and that's a good thing.

zetes While definitely flawed, I liked this film quite a bit. A high school drama teacher (Steve Coogan, yet again trying to break into the American market) writes his first-ever original play for his students after many failures at adapting popular Hollywood movies. Unfortunately, this play, a sequel to Hamlet in which Hamlet and Jesus travel through time, is a little bit offensive for high school. The principal tries shutting it down, but Coogan and his students are eager to go on with it, even garnering defense from the ACLU. The film's main problem is that the play itself, which makes up the climax of the movie, isn't as much fun as you expect from the previous descriptions. Much of the stuff that leads up to the play is quite wonderful, though. I think Coogan's character is very well written, a former alcoholic who wanted to be a famous actor but wasn't talented, who has ended up with a small, deteriorating high school program, who has a wife (Catherine Keener, great) who misses out on no opportunity to emasculate him. Coogan does an American accent, which at first annoyed me, but which I eventually figured out lent a lot to his wound-up character. The high school students are also very funny. Elisabeth Shue has a role as herself which should have been funnier than it is, but it's nice to see her again.

takethe-lead-tb Hamlet 2 was an awesome movie. Very witty, uplifting, and hilarious. The reviews definitely did not do it justice. I think most people that saw this movie had something else in mind when they went to see it so they all watched it with biased views, because they weren't getting what they thought they were. The characters were all played by good actors and the acting was really good. the only thing i didn't like was the fact that it was supposed to be in Tucson, AZ and it was filmed in Albuquerque, NM. The directors said it was due to the unwelcoming Tucson, which is definitely not true as there are actually many film studios in Tucson..