
Dana Marschz is a failed actor and recovering alcoholic who's moved to Tucson to teach high school drama, where he's plagued by bad reviews, student indifference, budget woes (he and his wife, who is trying to get pregnant, take in a boarder), and his own teaching limitations. Because the other electives are closed, he finds himself with a large class of seeming gang-bangers, and the principal informs him that drama will be cut next trimester. On the advice of a student revie... (Full plot summary below)
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Dana Marschz is a failed actor and recovering alcoholic who's moved to Tucson to teach high school drama, where he's plagued by bad reviews, student indifference, budget woes (he and his wife, who is trying to get pregnant, take in a boarder), and his own teaching limitations. Because the other electives are closed, he finds himself with a large class of seeming gang-bangers, and the principal informs him that drama will be cut next trimester. On the advice of a student reviewer, Dana decides to stage his own play, a sequel to "Hamlet" in which the prince and Jesus, with the use of a time machine, try to save Gertrude and Ophelia. Can Dana for once pull something off?
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| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseCoogan's performance as the lost soul is as brilliant as it is ebulliently wacky |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansBrady and Fleming, who co-wrote the script, build to a feverish finale, 15 minutes of pure transgressive laughter when Hamlet 2 is finally performed. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithVery funny. Even though his hands are nowhere on it, you can feel the presence of John Waters everywhere. |
| Willamette WeekSaundra SorensonWe are never entirely sure what the hell happens, only that Hamlet is given a chance to set everything right. And that a lot of it is set to New Wave. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerCan a frustrated actor pen a Hamlet sequel reviving dead characters via a time machine with Jesus, Einstein and Hillary Clinton? If this daring, irreverent social satire has its say, those lunatic possibilities may prove just that on screen. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealSet in Tucson but shot in Albuquerque, the movie depicts the city as a lowly, slum-ridden burg with a liquor store on every corner and impoverished schools. In other words, they get it exactly right. |
| About.comRebecca MurrayThis is smart and original and definitely worth the side effect of having Rock Me Sexy Jesus in your head for days - even weeks - after viewing. |
| Filmcritic.comChris CabinIt's a doozy, but none of the tiresome racial epithets nor the naughty words that surround this magnum opus of raunch deliver the outrage they so badly try to stir up. |
| WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)Kevin McCarthyWith all of the unoriginal garbage in Hollywood recently, Hamlet 2 gives us hope that there is still talent left in the world. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekSo 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. |