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To have or not to have a convincing accent - that is the question -

University of Sussex Students' Newspaper

To have or not to have a convincing accent – that is the question

The Badger

ByThe Badger

Dec 1, 2008

How are you supposed to feel about British comedians in Hollywood? Are they traitors? Ambassadors? Too often it has been a bit embarrassing as the lure of money and fame has meant that our favourite funny ladies and gentleman have gone for second-rate scripts.


Hamlet 2 represents an attempt to get away from this; and in some ways it succeeds. The collection of near-the-belt targets include Christians, Jews and Latinos, and these are attacked with a relish reminiscent of Borat. At times this becomes boring but the film is saved by the comic timing of Coogan, who adds a knowing element of Partridge-like awkwardness to proceedings. In the end, this would be an excellent film bar one irritating element: in the opening minutes we are given a number of sketches by Coogan which show an exemplary American accent, yet for much of the film his accent is weak and breaks for whole sentences at a time into a weird non-accent. It may seem petty to write a film off for this but it was distracting beyond any of the film’s virtues.

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