There are few things more obnoxious than a satire that keeps nudging you to remind you it’s only kidding. Hamlet 2, which is like if Waiting For Guffman were played as a straight comedy instead of as a documentary, and made sure to remove anything remotely funny, panders and plays it safe to the point […]
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Hamlet 2
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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Hamlet 2
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Tags: 24 Hour Party People, 30 year old high school students, ACLU, Adam Lippe, Alan Arkin, Alan Partridge, Albert Brooks, Amy Poehler, Andrew Fleming, anti-semitism, Arizona, Arthur Hiller, Backdraft, Bad Dreams, Being John Malkovich, boombox, Catherine Keener, Christopher Guest, Coldplay, Collio, Dan Hedaya, Dangerous Minds, David Arquette, Dead Poets Society, Dick, Elisabeth Shue, Erin Brockovich, Eugene Levy, Everlast, film, George Carlin, Grease, House of Pain, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar, John Travolta, Josh Charles, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Leaving Las Vegas, Leslie Nielsen, lung cancer, Melonie Diaz, Michael DOuglas, Michael Winterbottom, Michelle Pfeiffer, Missippi Burning, movie, movie review, Norman Jewison, Pam Brady, parody, Peter Falk, R rated, racism, RegrettableSincerity.com, religion, Remake, Ron Howard, Rushmore, Ryan Reynolds, satire, school play, Serpico, slapstick, South Park, Stephen Baldwin, Steve Coogan, Steven Soderbergh, The Craft, The In-Laws, The Parole Officer, threesome, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Tropic Thunder, Tuscon, U2, Waiting For Guffman, What It's Like, white rapper, William Shakespeare
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Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
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