Dana Marschz, a failed actor, who is now a high school drama teacher/coach.Dana still has the ambition of doing a success and comes up with a plan to do sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet "Hamlet 2". However, this is a musical and is to be done on a grand scale. Dana becomes creative and casts a wide net to recruit transfer students for key roles. Rehearsals soon cause school officials and community members to object to what he is doing. Dana will not let his dream die and goes on despite the roadblocks.Dana keeps going on, he will not be denied the freedom of artistic expression, "to thine own self be true." Support from the ACLU sprouts, and ACLU attorney Cricket Feldstein (Amy Poehler) works with him and his favorite actress Elisabeth Shue (plays herself).Overall the film is so ridiculous; it does get a few laughs in the last scene. It is a story of optimism and focusing on a goal, however nutty.