Hamlet 2 (2008)

Release date: 2008-08-27
Country: USA
Language: English|Spanish
Director: Andrew Fleming
Production Co: Bona Fide Productions, ContentFilm International, L+E Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Music
Rating: 6.3/10
Length: 1h 32min

Storyline

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?

Plot Keywords

mask, song, dancer, dancing, drinking, drink, teenage boy, teenage girl, male nudity, testicles, doctor, fired from the job, bare butt, underwear, singer, drug use, love, computer, sword, fight

Short Review

It's all far more wonderfully dynamic than I was ever expecting it could be, both capturing the feel of the stage production while taking advantage of the possibilities of television.