‘HAMLET’ SPEAKS NO SPEECH

Shakespeare Spoof '2' but the Slave to Tedium

Bearing all of the slapstick gags, socially-maladjusted tics, and bizarre characterizations of “Napoleon Dynamite,” the outing in “Hamlet 2” may run a similar course, but struggles to conjure even half the former flix’ charm. The debate over the efficacy of theatre so ardently won in the Shakespearean progenitor of “2” is clearly lost on the producers here, who obviously don’t even trust the viewers to tell Hamlet from Ghost. Giving more light than heat, this pestilent congregation of vapors needed to play past expectations of puerile summer comedy and be a little truer to its own self.

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