If you like Broadway theater, you may enjoy the new film, “Hamlet 2.” It’s not exactly Broadway quality, but that seems to be part of the fun. The trailer is available online here.

The film tells the story of a failed actor, Dana Marschz, played by famous British comedy actor Steve Coogan. After accepting that his life’s dreams will never come to be, he accepts a new career as a drama teacher.

But then the school administrators threaten to cut his department, inspiring him to do something really bold to save his job and his department. His response is to write a sequel to the most famous of Shakespeare’s masterpieces. Thus spawns a new, not quite masterpiece, “Hamlet 2.”

Of course, it must be remembered that everyone dies at the end of “Hamlet.” Marschz solves this issue with a time machine. He then employs a gay chorus and he’s off and running, with what’s looks to be big laughs.

Amy Poeler also joins the cast as a civil rights attorney who comes into save the play from being shut down. Elizabeth Shue also joins the cast in an unusual bit of casting, playing herself, a former successful actor who is now a nurse.

All in all, I think “Hamlet 2” could be a bit of fun in the Cineplex, and maybe slightly offensive.