Hamlet 2 Critic Reviews

Funny excuses an awful lot, and at its best, Hamlet 2 is nothing short of hilarious.Read the full review

As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."Read the full review

The movie is an ideal showcase for the talents of Coogan.Read the full review

Like its low-key star, Hamlet 2 is more likely to elicit quiet chuckles than raucous laughter.Read the full review

It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.Read the full review

Elisabeth Shue has a strange role as a version of herself who has given up acting for nursing.Read the full review

A rather mediocre experience, offering sporadic laughs but never achieving the level of consistent humor necessary to make this memorable.Read the full review

Attaining somewhat of a bad parody of a comedy, screenwriters Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady have slapped together a string of gags in a hit-and-miss dither. Some of it is quite brainy.Read the full review

Mostly, though, there's the endlessly resourceful, endlessly inventive, bedazzling Mr. Coogan. Hamlet Schmamlet. Not since "Death of a Salesman" has failure been quite so entertaining.Read the full review