Oh yeah, we're all going to hell in a handbasket.

I hereby declare at the year's halfway point that the funniest (non-"Pineapple Express") movie I've seen so far is "Hamlet 2," a blissfully demented flick that feels like the best elements of "Anchorman," "Waiting for Guffman" and "Being John Malkovich," all thrown into a blender and set to puree.

The film is powered by a performance that should finally make Steve Coogan a star here in the states. At the beginning of the film he's a D-level actor whose wife hates him, reduced to teaching the dramatic arts at an Arizona high school where the students mock him while he rollerskates to work; from there, his life just gets worse. Read more...