Day 5: Hamlet 2

So what is there to say about this movie other than it is very funny.
Steve Coogan stars in this wonderfully demented film as Dana Marschz:  a failed actor and recovering alcoholic who now works in Tucson, Arizona as a high school drama teacher.  All the plays he has produced have been adaptations of once popular movies and he has only two students to boot.  Soon after he is given an overflow of students from cancelled courses and is then told theater will be shut down.  In desperation and stupidity, Dana decides to write a sequel to Shakespeare's play Hamlet.  But due to the controversial nature of the play(being that all the characters died in the original, there is a time machine, Jesus is a character, and one of the musical numbers is titled Rock Me Sexy Jesus) Dana is forbidden to produce the play on school grounds.  With the help of his shifty students, they find a new venue for the play.

The movie is quite risque in moments, but is actually good natured at heart.  The cast is very talanted and Katherine Keener was pretty good as Dana's cynical wife.  The musical numbers are quite funny, especially the song Rock Me Sexy Jesus.  This movie is great and holds no punches.

Favorite Line(s):

Dana Marschz: Chuy, you're going to have a magical life. Because no matter where you go, it's always going to be better than Tucson.

Dana Marschz: You can't let your ethnic narrow-mindedness stop your son from thriving in our culture.
Mr. Marquez: I have to take exception to that characterization.
Dana Marschz: Heywood's a bad boy. He's a gang banger. A deadbeat. But he also has a gift.
Mrs. Marquez: Who is Heywood?
Dana Marschz: Your son. Heywood Jablome.
[pause; realization dawns upon Dana]
Dana Marschz: Oh. I just got that.

Brie Marschz: Maybe it's better that we just can't get pregnant. I feel like we shouldn't pass on this gene pool.

Dana Marschz: I work for gas money! That's why I'm always on rollerskates.

Dana Marschz: Drama has been cancelled.
Brie Marschz: Finally!  Now you can go back to your job at Rite Aid and start making some real money.

Gary: Oh ,Dana, I found a great parking spot right out front and there was still time on the meter.
Brie Marschz: [Groans] They should just ship you over to the Gulf, you know, let you talk to people.  All the terrorists would just kill themselves.