Hamlet 2 Critic Reviews

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

Amusing but unevenly inspired tale of a deluded high school drama teacher's attempt to stage a career-saving extravaganza has some laughs, to be sure.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

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

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

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

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