Steve Coogan Makes Shakespeare Cool in Hamlet 2

by Andrew Gnerre | Published August 13, 2008

Hamlet 2, which fetched a cool $10 million at Sundance, stars the always-funny Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) as a inappropriately unaware high school drama teacher whose latest production is a raunchy and irreverent sequel to the classic Shakespeare tragedy. The movie boasts an impressive roster of talent beyond Coogan including writer Pam Brady (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut), director Andrew Fleming (Dick), Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler (as an ACLU worker) and Elisabeth Shue (as herself). Watch this scene from the film, released Wednesday, August 27, in which Coogan does a pitch-perfect impression of every teacher whose ever tried to sell Shakespeare as "cool" to his largely uninterested pupils.

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