As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie is an ideal showcase for the talents of Coogan.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
A rather mediocre experience, offering sporadic laughs but never achieving the level of consistent humor necessary to make this memorable.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Elisabeth Shue has a strange role as a version of herself who has given up acting for nursing.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Only in its aggressively imaginative profanity is the film consistent.Read 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 Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Hamlet 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.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
It all adds up to the kind of bad family entertainment likely to raise only a few eyebrows.Read Full Review »