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Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2 begs to important questions: 1. What would Hamlet do with a time machine, and 2. Could Jesus successfully market himself nowadays if he went the sex sells route.

The answer?

Not as hilarious as you might think.

But still, the review must go on!

Except that it is so derivative of every movie ever, that basically if you were to just take the following movies, put them in a blender, and pour the ingredients out onto a dirty floor, let your dog lick it up, and then take your dog’s shit and smear it onto a tv, you’d get a fairly good understanding of this movie.

The most obvious movies–and I took no notes while watching it, so this is what I can remember three days later–it rips off:

• Hamlet (obvs)
• Dangerous Minds (at least it has the decency to reference the movie somewhat ironically)
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• High School Musical
• Grease

There’s probably more.

Basically, there was only ever one highlight.  When the evil principal who wanted to shut down the drama department finally watches Hamlet 2, he recognizes something from his own past.  Yes, they at least did a play-within-a-play-with-villain-watching-moment.  The moment itself sucked (principal realizes he’s been molested as a child, which is supposed to be funny?) but I appreciated the fact that they did it.

That is the end of my review.  I feel no urge to give you the actual storyline.  You shouldn’t watch it anyways.  Thank God I rented it from the library, and in my defense watched it for the Much Ado About Shakespeare Challenge.