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Hamlet 2 - Review

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Hamlet 2 (2008)

Despite its disjointed presentation and underdeveloped subplots, Hamlet 2 is a hilariously perverse look at those that can't do and decide to teach. When drama teacher and unemployed actor Dana Marschz' (Steve Coogan) latest play, an adapted stage version of Erin Brokovich, is a stinker in the eyes of the high school newspaper's pint-size critic, he decides to write an original play and sequel to the literary work Hamlet. Fueled by his snarky wife, latent issues with his absent father and the possibility of his high school's drama department being removed, Dana decides to stage his controversial production with the help of his ragtag group of students and an ACLU lawyer (Amy Poehler) like no other. With musical numbers like "Raped In The Face" and "Rock Me Sexy Jesus," Hamlet 2 might just make the Vatican's list for most blasphemous, yet sinfully enjoyable, films.

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 2:58 AM by mercurial | with 1 comments

The House Bunny - Review

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Grandma's Boy (2006)

House Bunny (2008)

It's a no-brainer: intellectually deficient, big-breasted woman finds solace in the company of a pregnant American Idol, a mute Disney songstress, an oddly shaped headed celebuspawn, and some other assuredly attractive girls camouflaged to look unappealling to the mentally deficient and helps transform them into her whore-like doppelgangers. The End. The House Bunny is cliched to the nth degree but suprisingly enjoyable; it's the chick version of Grandma's Boy.

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 7:23 PM by mercurial | with 0 comments

The Pineapple Express - Review

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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)

The Pineapple Express (2008)

In the grand tradition of Dude, Where's My Car? this film has garnered a place on the list of movies that must be viewed when one is on one or more mind-altering substances. Honestly, the whole time I kept telling myself that if I smoked pot or was drunk The Pineapple Express would be the funniest movie I've seen in a long time.

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:37 PM by mercurial | with 0 comments

Who's Camus Anyway? - Review

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Who's Camus Anyway? (2005)

When a simple homage becomes the premise for an entire film, you might want to take a step back and re-evaluate things. Entire plotlines, characters and camera shots raped from their original celluloid homes and haphazardly spliced into a discordant mess of parts a la Frankenstein's monster is a fairly harsh yet not wholly inaccurate description of Who's Camus Anyway? As a group of college students struggle to prepare for the first day of filming on a collaborative film project, hearts, dreams and camera equipment are broken over the course of a single week. Albeit filled with great acting and cinematography, the continual reliance on filmic references and recreations ruins what could have possibly been a fantastically surreal film.

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:21 PM by mercurial | with 0 comments