More thoughts soon on Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady’s Hamlet 2, which opens in limited release on August 22 and expands the following week, but it’s worth noting that the film features a coarse exclamation that actually made me laugh out loud, as much for the depth of its feeling as its political incorrectness. Steve Coogan, starring as a washed-up actor turned myopic, unhinged Tucson high school drama teacher, encounters opposition to his latest harebrained musical staging, and vents thusly: “I’m so angry! I feel like I’ve been raped… in the face!” The movie later oversells this sentiment in the form of a full-fledged musical number (part of the play within the movie), but it remains a great line.
