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Goofy. Good for a giggle.

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Posted sep 18, 2008 9:22 am pt

• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  83
  Funny excuses an awful lot, and at its best, Hamlet 2 is nothing short of hilarious.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  75
  Occasionally sloppy, with a finale so abrupt and incoherent that it feels like something is missing. But it's also pleasantly odd and truly funny, and it builds in strength as it goes along.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Like its low-key star, Hamlet 2 is more likely to elicit quiet chuckles than raucous laughter.

  by Ruthe Stein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  75
  It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The movie is an ideal showcase for the talents of Coogan.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Coogan's screen persona is vain, dim, angry, and deeply miserable, and his handful of scenes here with a smilingly harsh Catherine Keener are little masterpieces of comic sadomasochism.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  Arquette wander in and out of frame, but like everyone else in this film, they're eclipsed by Coogan's gloriously unhinged performance, which has the lunatic, semi-meta tone of a parody within a parody.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  67
  A frequently amusing and consistently outrageous but ultimately tiresome farce.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  Elisabeth Shue has a strange role as a version of herself who has given up acting for nursing.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  The film, which really is sloppy, slips around in terms of tone and goes every which way.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  A rather mediocre experience, offering sporadic laughs but never achieving the level of consistent humor necessary to make this memorable.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  60
  Attaining somewhat of a bad parody of a comedy, screenwriters Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady have slapped together a string of gags in a hit-and-miss dither. Some of it is quite brainy.

  by Duane Byrge | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
  60
  Mostly, though, there's the endlessly resourceful, endlessly inventive, bedazzling Mr. Coogan. Hamlet Schmamlet. Not since "Death of a Salesman" has failure been quite so entertaining.

  by Joanne Kaufman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  58
  Not infrequently the movie is as mediocre as its target. The great Steve Coogan movie has yet to be made.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »