Steve Coogan's pretty funny. But the last half hour of the movie is probably the only worthwhile bit. I sang "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" for about a month after viewing.

Fun film, very funny.

the play at the end is even worse than the movie

I guffawed a few times.

Silly

Very Poor. I chuckled a few times but never really laughed too hard, its just senseless and dumb. I sometime wonder how films like this get funded.

Not really that funny. The play was the only good part.

"Hamlet 2 belongs firmly to Steve Coogan, which is fortunate since none of the film's supporting players prove to be the least bit memorable." - Andrew Schenker

EVERYBODY HAS RAIN GUTTERS!

Whether you like this probably depends entirely on whether you think Steve Coogan is the funniest man alive. Essentially Dangerous Minds meets Slings And Arrows, with Coogan as a soon-to-be-fired high school drama teacher who tries to put on a self-penned sequel to Hamlet (it involves time travel and Sexy Jesus). It's got its moments, but... I'm one of those who don't.

Delightful little turn of the genre, where the "inspiring" teacher is actually an awful person. The interactions with the "Critic of Record" are easily the best part of the film

Coogan is funny, but the clueless drama teacher trope has been done, and done better. There are some genuinely funny moments and the cast is pretty great, but it is ultimately forgettable.

It's very funny, and consistent in it's funniness, but overall it's not very good. Days later you'll forget most of what or saw or why you laughed, but the performance at the end will stick with you. I feel like I'm forgetting something....oh yeah, ELISABETH SHUE!

I appreciate the fact it tries to do what it does, but feels like an inferior strangers with candy.

It's like some teenage slacker broke into the apartment of the guy who wrote all of Jim Carrey's movies and took with him all the unfinished, cut-out jokes lying of the floor. He then went home and finished the jokes in the most unfortunate way possible while sniffing glue and scribbling a weak story in between them, and that was 'Hamlet 2'. We are living in a sad, desperate time for humankind.

Not caustic nor sentimental, Hamlet 2's sharp, wily social lampoon gets funnier as it goes along; expanding its focus outside the high school sphere to comment on the probability of luck, failure, hope for all the characters.

A movie that might sound unbearably stupid, it actually manages to hit most of the right marks for some really hilarious comedy.

Nowhere near as funny, smart, or edgy as it thinks it is. It wanted to be one of those movies that hilariously skews the genre it's parodying (inspirational school stories) while succeeding on its own merits. It did neither. Granted, there are laughable moments; there just aren't nearly enough.

This really would have been better if it was just an hour and a half of the musical they put on -- that's the real highlight of the film and the only time where it's honestly funny. Rock Me Sexy Jesus is potentially the best musical sequence you will ever see in a film.

A commixture of bad and good, funny and shameless; there are things to love about this movie, and things that make you cringe. One minute I'll be laughing, the next sighing away another part of my soul. Elizabeth Shue was great, though.

It was supposed to be a great comedy about a bad play but it turns out to be a bad comedy about an amazing play. Everything up until the final 20 minutes is a waste of time.

I say experience because I did not watch Hamlet 2, I felt the the chill as the screen tried to rip this movie from it's face. The half aborted result manages to procede with little or no point for an agonizing hour and a half, making the sweet release of it's end the best part of the entire experience.

Thanks to an utterly uncharismatic lead and some fundamental confusion between "funny" and "edgy" this film fails completely. If it had been about Catherine Keener and David Arquette's characters, it would have been immeasurably more amusing.

Not as funny as the marketing promoted, but the movie is infectious in its own right and simply deserved to be better. I still enjoyed it because Steve Coogan completely anchored this slapstick farce of inspiring teacher dramas. Certain elements went to waste, like Elizabeth Shue playing herself, and Katherine Keener and David Arquette's characters. Overall, however, it has a winning spirit, Coogan is very funny, and the film isn't a total misfire.

Although it picks up in the latter half (when the play is finally put on), it doesn't excuse the very clunky and very unfunny script.

Totally inappropriate. I hurt myself laughing. [Entry 8 Birthday CD Movie Crawl 02.24.2009]

Not bad but in the end just not my kind of humor...stands far behind the jokes of Team America.Coogan is one of those " love him or hate him" actors.

Not sure how to feel about this one. It's entertaining, but pretty dumb... though it uses many "smart" references. I laughed, so I guess that's good enough.

Definitely inconsistent and clearly a rushed production, but there are some brilliant pieces of satire of high school theater programs and inspirational teacher movies to make it an enjoyable watch, even a good handful of laugh-out-loud moments. Coogan's line delivery can be comic gold, when the line is right. Elisabeth Shue's casting is inspired. David Arquette is pointless, as usual. Overall could have used a few script re-writes, but it is a respectable comic effort.

Simultaneously makes fun of and praises Dead Poets Society.

A refreshingly cynical satire of "inspiring teacher" movies. Steve Coogan and the kids all do quirky and often enjoyable work, and although there is a hint too much slapstick, the final musical performance makes up it.

As an actor, Steve Coogan has no shame. As a writer, Pam Brady has no boundaries. Put them together and we have one of the most absurd, deliciously hysterical films of the year.

Not every joke hits, but there are so many that do. Alot of great performances, (esp. Coogan) and has the joi de vivre of the best let's-put-on-a-show musicals. Keeps a smile on your face even when you're not laughing.