Hamlet A.D.D.

USA • 2014 • 95m •

• Directed by: Bobby Ciraldo, Andrew Swant. • Starring: Bobby Ciraldo, Robert Richard Jorge, Andrew Swant, Dustin Diamond, Mark Metcalf, Majel Barrett, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Vincent Price, Kumar Pallana, Mark Borchardt, Gregg Turkington, Mike Schank. • Music by: Didier Leplae, Joe Wong.

Hamlet is an easily distracted prince who is not quite ready to do the task at hand. Challenged to kill his uncle Claudius by the ghost of his recently dead dad, Hamlet enthusiastically proceeds to do everything but.

Review:

Where to begin with Hamlet A.D.D.? It's a "fun" and "creative" romp through the arguable workhorse of the Bard's writings, done intentionally in a low-budget, bad-acting way that simultaneously seems to include players like Jorge and Youtube celebrities "hilariously" underacting against a green-screen cartoon world which transitions from the year 1601 to the end of the universe and back again.

This might seem like a new splash of color on Hamlet, and especially needed in the Youtube and Vine era, but it falls short on many levels. Let me stress this: The acting, writing and jokes are TERRIBLE. While this is acceptable for other "cult" films, like The Room or Rocky Horror, it differs in that it was done intentionally; everything was budget-cut, from the awful acting to the boring camera-work to the terrible 3D backgrounds and bubble-fish. Also, fart jokes are funny maybe once or twice, but they popped up far more often than I felt was appropriate, and with no thought to comedic timing. It feels like they just got lazy and slapped a bunch of elements of cult films and Internet memes together, with no attention paid to composition, theatricality or originality.

Review by nickiannone from the Internet Movie Database.

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