We’ve been behind on writing about “Hamlet 2,” cause occasionally we like to eat lunch or even sleep an our or two in the evening before work. But it sounds and looks amusing. Our summer film preview on the absurdist comedy went like this:
Who wasn’t obsessed with Elisabeth Shue when they were younger? Sundance 2008’s biggest hit (or at least it’s most expensively sold, it was bought for $10 million by Focus Features) stars Steve Coogan as a a failed actor-turned inept drama teacher trying to motivate his students who develops a fawning and obsessive crush on the real Elisabeth Shue (as played by Elisabeth Shue in a kind of ‘Being John Malkovich’ style meta self-parody). Oh yeah, and Coogan then conceives of a politically incorrect musical…the sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The director behind this is Andrew Flemming, the guy behind, “Dick,” “The Craft” and “Threesome” (Uhh, he’s got one episode of “Arrested Development” under his belt? *nervous smile*).
The film is filled with a bunch of corny musical sequences and the new trailer and a bunch of musical scenes have come out over at Yahoo. Below we’ve got a clip of the sure-to-be hit single “Rock Me Sexy Jesus.” It seems maybe a little too ridiculous and we’ve heard some s0-so, first hand reports about it, but we’re still tentatively psyched to see it (as we’ve noted, we’re pretty sure everyone at Sundance 2008 was high, or it was the altitude, cause every film seemingly got A grades across the board and then when the rest of us, not at Neverland, saw the films and we all went, “hey, yeah, these are good, but slow it down, man.”)