Hamlet 2 Critic Reviews

In the new comedy Hamlet 2, Coogan comes perilously close to wearing out his welcome. It's actually a pretty fascinating sight.Read the full review

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

It's an unhinged, off-the-wall comedy that will try anything once, an uneven film in which the hits are so dead-on that the misses don't seem to matter.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

It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.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

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

It all adds up to the kind of bad family entertainment likely to raise only a few eyebrows.Read the full review