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83As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."
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83Funny excuses an awful lot, and at its best, Hamlet 2 is nothing short of hilarious.
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75It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.
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75The movie is an ideal showcase for the talents of Coogan.
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75Like its low-key star, Hamlet 2 is more likely to elicit quiet chuckles than raucous laughter.
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75Occasionally sloppy, with a finale so abrupt and incoherent that it feels like something is missing. But it's also pleasantly odd and truly funny, and it builds in strength as it goes along.
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70Coogan's screen persona is vain, dim, angry, and deeply miserable, and his handful of scenes here with a smilingly harsh Catherine Keener are little masterpieces of comic sadomasochism.
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67Arquette wander in and out of frame, but like everyone else in this film, they're eclipsed by Coogan's gloriously unhinged performance, which has the lunatic, semi-meta tone of a parody within a parody.
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67A frequently amusing and consistently outrageous but ultimately tiresome farce.
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63The film, which really is sloppy, slips around in terms of tone and goes every which way.
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63Elisabeth Shue has a strange role as a version of herself who has given up acting for nursing.
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63A rather mediocre experience, offering sporadic laughs but never achieving the level of consistent humor necessary to make this memorable.
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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.
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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.
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58Not infrequently the movie is as mediocre as its target. The great Steve Coogan movie has yet to be made.
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50Only in its aggressively imaginative profanity is the film consistent.
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50In the new comedy Hamlet 2, Coogan comes perilously close to wearing out his welcome. It's actually a pretty fascinating sight.
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50Let's just say that, when the parody looks indistinguishable from the parodied, something's gone awry.
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50There's a lot of potential here, and a sharper script might have made all the difference.
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50Coogan's mopiness is oddly riveting.
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50Not nearly as uproarious as it should be.
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50It'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.
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50It all adds up to the kind of bad family entertainment likely to raise only a few eyebrows.
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50Hamlet 2 is as needy as its hero -- because it wants not to be probing or profound or even witty but, above all else, to be loved.
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50Amusing 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.
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40So wearying that it makes you feel duped for being open to it in the first place. Hamlet 2 works so hard at being entertaining, in that quirky, Indie 101 sense, that it just grinds you down.
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25Much like the play within it, Hamlet 2 is lousy. The main difference is that the play is SUPPOSED to be awful. The movie about the play is supposed to be funny.
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12The laughs begin with the excellent title Hamlet 2 - and they end there.
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