Simply Perfect

Just perfect...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A high school teacher wants to rejuvenate his drama class after years of being trashed, and now threatened with getting shut down. Well, he ends up getting more than shut down when the principal gets word of what's in his play -- crude sexual situations and blasphemy. But the students press on and decide they'll do it themselves.This film is great if you love racial humor, Christian humor, fertility humor, and all sorts of questionable tastes. We have some fine moments from Elisabeth Shue (playing a cynical version of herself), a discussion on Amy Poehler's balls, and a small role for David Arquette (which is probably good, as he can overshadow a project).The Latino parents are hilarious... objecting to "Hamlet 2" for the strangest of reasons, and it's nice to see some of the best advice coming from Little Sapirstein, a source of brilliance. An odd twist on the sage role.I love the ceaseless references to "The Lake House", "Erin Brockovich" and other contemporary pieces of rubbish... and the references to "Dead Poets Society" and "Dangerous Minds", which the film clearly draws influence from. Though, sadly, "Dead Poets" is the better film.In the end, the film is funny, but uneven. I enjoyed the off-color humor and the "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" song, but there were many dry parts... sometimes five or ten minutes of boring would go by. Had the pacing been slightly different, or a few more jokes thrown in, I'd call it a success... but it just didn't come out right.

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.

The biggest surprise of my weekend was Hamlet 2. It's a stupid concept that went all the way round back to genius again. Great movie. Hilarious performances from Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener and Elisabeth Shue. Clever when it needed to be, sincere at times, and out and out stupid-funny in the best way at other times.I guess a big concern with this movie is mindless vulgarity, which I personally have no problem with, but there's really none of that here. Sure, the main writer worked on South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, and Team America - but Hamlet 2 has a lo more charm.I gave it a 9. It does what a comedy is supposed to do - made me laugh out loud several times!

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..