Steve Coogan Suffers the Slings and Arrows of Being a Dopey Shakespeare Hopeful

Philadelphia City Paper | August 26, 2008
Coogan spends the film in a tug-of-war with the script; he's forced into some blatantly obvious humor, from the broad commercial parodies to the endless mangling of his character's consonant-heavy name. But he also maximizes the thinly veiled rage burbling under Marschz's veneer of undying optimism.

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