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- IMDB rating: 6.40
- IMDB votes: 1705
- Release Date: 2010
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- Will Forte brings his Saturday Night Live character MacGruber to the screen with this action comedy directed by Jorma Taccone. After bad guys killed his wife (Maya Rudolph), soldier of fortune MacGruber (Forte) devoted his life to peace. But when his old nemesis (Val Kilmer) gets control of a nuclear weapon, MacGruber's former boss (Powers Boothe) convinces him to risk life and limb one more time with the help of a new team (Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe).
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Added: 21 May 2010
Vote: 19
Just a terrible movie.
My wife and I just returned from seeing this bomb.
Was unsure of what to expect since there were an equal number ofpositive and negative reviews.
Not sure what kind of sick mind thought that this movie was good and/orworth seeing.
SNL cast members were really awful in their roles as were the WWE(although that was to be expected).
Neither the film nor the characters had any redeeming features.
The film raised crudeness to a whole new level - gag.
This has to be one of the worst films ever made.
Can't understand why they made it or how they got funding.
The best part of the movie was the ending - meaning it was over.
Don't waste your time or money.
Added: 23 May 2010
Vote: 2
Macgruber! Bombed but Bold!
Macgruber! Bombed at the box office but was sure enough a good comedy.The reason I think it bombed in the box office was because of thestupid attempt to make Shrek the Fourth. I think the Shrek moviesshould have stopped after the 3rd movie which was the worst. This moviehad some hilarious jokes. The jokes in the film were also not leftalone they restated the jokes through out the film which I thought wasa great idea on the director's part. At first when I heard this movie Iwas like HELL YEAH! Then I said to myself wait,….how are they going toturn a 30 second skit on SNL into a full length movie. I gotta say theypulled it off. It had a great script and great comedy. Will Forte'sfirst film wasn't that bad but, like I say with other OK movies theycan't compare to top films in the industry today.
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Added: 20 May 2010
Vote: 18
The Other BLUES BROTHERS
not a masterpiece? my ass, this is not a masterpiece. its the piece DEresistance! its genius. its what MacGruber's been working towards forover a decade...or it is in my mind anyway! this movie is so much morethan the epic highway pile ups, so much more than the nonstop carcrashes, so much more than the hilarious car chases. its the sum of allthe parts and it challenges every notion of sexuality and the way weperceive it in our ludicrous culture. i cannot wait to see my so calledliberal friends keep their eyes on the screen while MacGruber givesair- head to Oates from Hall and Oates. thats one of the cleverestmimes I've ever seen. genius genius genius. f%%k gay pride, f%%kstraight pride.. I've got MacGrubers 2000s pride!
An upper-decker is prime comedy, my friends. Apparently, if the dook issolid enough, standard flushing will not break it up and it'll justsink in there and forment.
Added: 22 May 2010
Vote: 7
Who is MacGruber?
We still don't know, but the question stays with me. The film is NakedGun or Get Smart brought up to date with outrageousness that can offendcurrent sensibility. If it can't achieve that, then what is the point?It is very funny. But it is more. One of the henchmen is namedHossBender, and this is the key to insight into the character ofMacGruber. He is one of Fassbinder's characters, with complex motivesand behavior that does not boil down to anything simple and obvious.Will Forte is remarkable. Don't look for deep plot. Even parody takessecond place to character. But what a character!
Pay no attention to the reviews. See it for yourself and think foryourself.
Added: 22 May 2010
Vote: 5
Better the first time I saw it… when it was called Austin Power: International Man of Mystery
MacGruber (Will Forte) is an explosives specialist, fan of soft rock,and throat-snatching perfectionist. While in hiding, his archrivalDieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) hijacks a nuclear missile. Col. Faith(Powers Boothe) and Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) talk MacGruberback into service. MacGruber gets back in touch with his sidekick Vicki(Kristen Wiig) and you've heard this plot before.
MacGruber is based on a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch starringForte and Wigg, and unofficially called by the same name. The core ofthe sketch is that MacGruber needs to deactivate a bomb with the helpof Vicki handing him some miscellaneous items. He never succeeds.Naturally the film isn't simply the sketch on repeat, it makes aneffort to establish and embellish the MacGruber character. In MacGruberwe find out that he's not the least bit likable. He thinks only of hisown needs, strives to offend, and has little regard from human life.Unlike the common notion that he's based on MacGyver, he acts more likea hyper- obnoxious Austin Powers. Both are "the best" government agentsdespite evidence of the contrary, they are fishes out of water, andMcGruber even seems to be living out the past. Heck, it's a good thingCunth isn't half the villain Dr. Evil was or there would surely be alawsuit.
Title sequences are traditionally one of the points where a film showsits most ambitious effects and editing. The biggest factor in thisallowance of flexibility is that we have adapted as an audience. Wegive an okay to non-diegetic material written across the screen. I'venever seen anyone complain that a movie broke the narrative or didn'tdisplay the appropriate levels of realism because characters weren'taware of the title appearing above them or that visually identifyingthe movie was a distraction. In a comedy, it's a point in the moviethat sets a tone by usually showcasing the character. MacGruber doesthis; the title sequence shows MacGruber doing his thing and defusing abomb. So what's the problem? Well the scene before this shows DieterVon Cunth acquiring the nuke. Then we see the title montage, and rightafter that Col. Faith and Lt. Piper are in a Jeep driving towardMacGruber's monastery. So that means the title montage was in the pastand bookended by scenes of the present. I don't think there is atechnical term to call this oversight, but if I find it jarring thensurely we can agree that something is amiss.
With a budget of $10 million, MacGruber looks surprisingly wellproduced. It's directed by SNL writer Jorma Taccone and Brandon Trostreally comes through as the cinematographer, giving it a fresh lookthat breaks the stagnant mold set by other SNL sketch films.
There are a few good efforts at comedy. There is an instance ofcreative use in subtitles. I liked the running gag involving the carstereo. Otherwise, it's a giant gross-out gag. Comedies like thisaren't supposed to be so offensive that they overshadow the humor.Austin Powers was an edge skating PG-13, but Power and Dr. Evil hadlikability. Indeed, MacGruber was better the first time I saw it… whenit was called Austin Power: International Man of Mystery. I'll eventake the second and third Powers films.
Added: 23 May 2010
Vote: 6
A funny action-packed colourful little nugget of fun
I found 'MacGruber' to be a thoroughly enjoyable flick. One can expectlots of laughter from this comedy. Even though in terms of story, thisisn't much different from other super sleuth comedies but it still is acharming film. This movie is brilliant! I loved every minute of it andI couldn't stop laughing! Every Indian person should watch this. Thestoryline is great and the actors and actresses are great in the movieand bring the movie to life. I have no complaints! This is one of themost hilarious comic produces of Hollywood.Most people are apt to labelit run of the mill stuff that Hollywood churns outmindlessly(yes..accepted..this is mindless..but you have to watch WillForte in this one)..
Drab and forgetful.He are there for the usual stuff. Getting paid andstrutting around irritating viewers.
The movie is a slight offshoot(a euphemism of course) of the whole nineyards. Awesome is the word.You have to watch the histrionics of JohnyForte especially.This is one of the very very rare Hindi movies where Iactually laughed out aloud.Especially with Johny Fortes comicantics.Please don't miss this one at all.
Overall I give it a 9/10 rating .. funny to the hilt, his innocent,miserable P.I. who cannot remember names is simply fantastic. At leastit was an American movie with crisp action scenes. Even the climax ofthe movie was fine. If possible, they can come with a good sequel tothe movie!!!
Added: 26 May 2010
Vote: 5
It's unfortunate that all these people seem to have decided it's going to be worthwhile before they've even seen it.
There has never been a worse movie made than this one. I have neverwanted to choke the living daylights out of a movie character. Untilnow. The mannerisms of the character, "MacGruber", had me seething. Theentire premise was idiotic. This is not a B grade comedy. Nor is it acult comedy. Do not waste your time.
Awful, just terrible. Don't bother tarnishing your living soul withthis. You'll be wishing you heard of it. It all works, though, bringingme to tears more than once. The actors all come together nicely. Thefact that it is a true story takes what should have been mawkishnessand turns it into a thought-provoking film about the nature ofsuffering and God's goodness (a paradox that has driven countlessnumbers of people into agnosticism). The part that really drove it allhome to me was the ending.
I'm a man who don't cry to much at movies or period for that matter butthis movie brougth it out of me.I could watch again and again
Added: 25 May 2010
Vote: 3
An embarrassment…,
The title tells you all you need to know: Yep, MacGruber all right.MacGruber, as it turns out, is neither funny, interesting nor in anyway entertaining, nevertheless "MacGruber" exists.
One day, a studio head shouted to his staff, "Give me a film thatfeatures Will Forte playing a character based off the McGruber sketch.And build it around one of those lesser guys from Saturday Night LivePatrick Weathers or Charles Rocket. No, make it Kristen Wiig!" "But,sir, that won't be funny in the least. In fact, audiences will sprintaway from the very-" "Damn it, man. Don't give me excuses. Give me aweak script with flatulent jokes a-plenty, now!"
History is divided into two epochs. The Time Before MacGruber and TheTime After MacGruber. Before MacGruber all was sunshine and light.Earth was paradise, the flowers were in bloom, children laughed more,the land flowed with milk and honey. After MacGruber, all is darkness.The birds have stopped singing, the air is pungent and still, the seasturn into puke, and rivers run with puss and other a fluid products ofinflammation.
Please, make it The Time Before MacGruber again. Please? For the full80 minutes of MacGruber, gags leap dutifully from the screen, clearabout two inches and fall to their death on the theater floor below.Will Forte mugs, cavorts and tomfoolerizes like a madman, and theresult is not unlike the worst night of karaoke you've ever seen. Onlywith no liquor.
One of the things that is so frustrating about the film is that at notime does a character ask the question that is surely on everyone'smind: that is, "In the name of all that is good and holy, Kristen Wiig,what happened to your face? No offense, my friend, but are you a secretgovernment experiment that went horribly wrong? Are you, ma'am, afreakish monster created by fusing together discarded clown parts? Iknow -- you fell out of a 750 foot-tall ugly tree and hit every branchon the way down, only to be dragged up to the top and dropped severalmore times, right? ?! Prop comedian Carrot Top, Emo Phillips, PaulyShore, and Gallagher are all starting to look pretty good by now, no?The film evokes not so much laughter as it does the desire to beginvomiting continually and not stopping until sometime during the nextadministration.
And just in case the characters accidentally caused some little sparkof actual mirth, dour, frumpy and flabby Val Kilmer is on hand tosmother it.
Added: 26 May 2010
Vote: 1
Funny when it's tighly packed into a skit. Terrible when it's a 90 minute movie
SNL hasn't really produced a comedy worth watching since "Wayne'sWorld"......mainly due to the fact that SNL doesn't have that muchtalent anymore. In fact, the cast members that do show the slightestbit of humor, are usually gone after one or two seasons. Maybe this isSNL's shot in the dark, in hopes to revive a once hilarious show thathad everyone talking.
Well, if you have cheked out SNL lately, you will find that it jokesare a little old and tired. And it is pretty much te same case with"MacGruber". This movie is exactly what you think it is.......a skitthat might be funny if it were summed up in about 2 minutes, butinstead it's a tiresome 90 minute film. A lot, if not all the jokes runflat. And they try to make it seem like what they are doing ishilarious, by pausing for a really long time after one of thecharacters delivers a punch line.....yeah, that might work when yourdoing something LIVE, but in a movie, it just makes you look like aretard.
The humor is really nothing new here......maybe some new and wittydialogue. But after a while, even that grew boring. But the two reasonswhy i think this movie failed miserably, are the writing, and the leadrole. Who is this guy again? I mean come on, you give SNL movie rolesto Mike Meyers, Chevy Chase, and Daney Carvey......not some douche whoyou have never ever heard of. And if you do give it to someone, makesure he is funny enough to carry a movie on is own.
Bottom Line.........like i said before, it's a SNL skit that shouldhave stayed a skit. Because stretching it out, made it un-bearable towatch. If this was SNL's attempt to draw in a new audience, theyfailed.
Added: 23 May 2010
Vote: 8
Disappointing, but it has its moments
MacGruber is being touted as better than the Hangover; one of thefunniest and original films of 2010. Like its other SNL skit turnedcinema brethren, MacGruber falls short. All in all, my laughterprobably added up to three minutes total... all of this within the 90minute duration of the film. MacGruber get's old after the first fewscenes. Will Forte's incompetency and 80's mullet aren't enough toamuse you beyond a chuckle or two, and chances are you have alreadyexpended such laughter when you watched the TV sketches. The skitseemed to work on SNL because it plays on MacGruber's never endingability to fail. We watch MacGruber dismantle a bomb and flub it uptime and time again due to his idiocy. Sure, we know he's going to failand perish in a glorious, raging inferno; it's HOW he fails and that'sultimately amusing. Unfortunately, this angle is not exploited in thefilm (a grave mistake on the writers' part). We get laughs throughMacGruber's arrogance, stupidity, and toilet humor. Upper deckers andcrappy Mazda Miatas with pull out radios are enough to make us laugh,but not enough to make this movie truly "funny." Hilarity is pepperedthrough the film sparingly, which should certainly not be the case fora comedy film. Like most other SNL movies, MacGruber falls short. Don'tsee this movie in theaters. At least wait for the DVD. You'll be gladyou saved your money.
User: capone666Added: 9 September 2010
Vote: 6
The Vidiot Reviews...
MacGruber
There are three telltale signs you're watching a comedy based on aSaturday Night Live sketch: the title character is wearing a wig, thejokes are abysmal, and there are no Asians in the cast.
Obeying that rule of three is this offering inspired by MacGyver.
When his nemesis Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) hijacks a nuclear warhead,ex-special agent MacGruber (Will Forte) comes out of retirement with avengeance.
Forming a team consisting of Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Lt.Piper (Ryan Phillippe), MacGruber sets out to stop Von Cunth fromgetting the passcodes needed to launch the warhead.
While his minute-long sketches usually find MacGruber defusing a bomb,in his film debut, however, he just stars in one.
Pieced together with a pipe cleaner plot and poop jokes, MacGruber'sbig mistake is that, unlike SNL, it doesn't use a flashing laughprompter to tell viewers something is funny. (Red Light)
Added: 12 September 2010
Vote: 4
complete arce
it gets such a low score partly because they sold it as something itisn't. the trailers show an action movie with real world characters butthe movie is just a poor Will Ferrell clone of a-team/oo7 movies. It isa ridiculous humor movie. From the trailers, I thought i was going tosee an interesting action movie but it is a teenage scream movie. Iwant my 4 bucks back because of misrepresentation
If yo want to watch bad juvenile humor like airplane (and not up tothat bar by a long shot)or b movie spy movie, enjoy
but really this movie is bad, really bad but if you need something onTV while you do something else , this is the one
Added: 1 June 2010
Vote: 3
MacGruber, you only have 30 seconds! The Audience is leaving the theater!
The director of "MacGruber" is named Jorma Taccone. Like the Tacone (amall food stand; taco + cone= tacone), the similarly named Mr. Tacconehad the problem of taking some indeterminate parts that do not belongtogether and shoving them into an enclosure, creating what is supposedto be a coherent whole. Like the foodstuff, Mr. Taccone did not succeedin reaching this goal.
While the parts making up "MacGruber" seem to make sense on their own,their juxtaposition ends up creating a context that is too confusing.Is this a parody of an action film, or an actual action film as such?Usually, action films of this ilk (see the Lethal Weapon series, RushHour series, etc.) already come with a significant dose of comedytherein, even bordering on self-parody. Many would argue that most ofSchwarzenegger's flicks cross that self-parodic line throughout theirrunning times.
What to make of a "comedy" film that goes for minutes at a time with noobvious "gags"? The overheated dialog, macho posturing. Recruiting ofthe hero out of retirement. The deliciously evil villain who plots todestroy the world. The history of bad blood between protagonist andantagonist. The awkward buddy pairing of MacGruber and Piper, thefree-wheeling, rule-breaking, eccentric hero-genius who "gets the jobdone" but has "unorthodox methods" and the clean-cut, by-the-bookrookie who comes into conflict with the hero's wild methodology. Arrgh!These things are all played with the straightest of faces. But in mybook, they've gone far beyond the straight-faced parody of theZucker-Abrahams-Zucker school (see "Airplane"), and actually made anhonest-to-Pete bad action movie, and not a parody of same.
One can only grade on a curve here. I will compare this film, such asit is, only to others based upon sketches from Saturday Night Live. Isit as good as "The Blues Brothers"? No way. That movie was awesome. Howabout "Wayne's World"? Nope. That one was much funnier. Umm…"TheConeheads"? No, even that one was better. What about "It's Pat"? Okay."MacGruber" is better than "It's Pat" was. But only by a hair. "It'sPat" made me want to sell my own liver.
Seeing as the "MacGruber" bit from SNL was a one-joke sketch onlylasting 30 seconds, the filmmakers had very little to work with here.Even though it was repeated four or five times per episode, each timethe sketch was identical: MacGruber was trapped in a power stationcontrol room with a bomb about to go off, its countdown timer tickingaway in a trope beloved of screenwriters since Thomas Edison firstinvented the movie camera. MacGruber is to defuse said bomb withwhatever happens to be at hand, in an obvious rip on "Mac Gyver": paperclip, cotton swab, masking tape. But he never does it, because eachtime he gets distracted, or gets into an argument with his femaleassistant, or starts talking about something stupid, and the bomb goesoff, killing everyone. Yet, MacGruber comes back yet again, apparentlynot killed, in the next segment, still trapped in the room with hisfemale helper and the bomb, counting down to Armageddon. Never trulydead, but always dying, MacGruber is trapped in a Sisphyean world ofnever-ending torture. Just like the audience of this movie. SamuelBecket would have a lot to think about here.
Of course, expanding this from a repetitive 30 second TV sketch to a 90minute feature film required that an actual plot be constructed. Notworth going much into it here, except to note that MacGruber must savethe world from a madman who has stolen a nuclear missile and plans toblow up the President of the United States with it, a man named Cunth(har har) who MacGruber just happened to go to college with, and whokilled MacGruber's wife on their wedding day because (SPOILER ALERT!)MacGruber stole her away from Cunth to begin with.
In spite of all the problems evident within it, I have given this moviea score of three for providing the following helpful pointers to assistthe viewer in getting through life:
1) Of all possible hairstyles that exist, the Shag-Mullet is one of thefew that exhibits a timeless sense of style and is appropriate in allsituations from laying around the pool to a corporate board meeting todefusing a nuclear missile.
2) If you are an armed evil henchman guarding the bad guys' secrethideout and/or rendezvous/drop spot, do NOT get distracted by a guywith his pants around his ankles and a celery stalk up his buttshuffling along in the middle distance. It is merely a ploy to get thedrop on you.
3) If you're going to be using C4 plastic explosive, bite the bulletand buy the real stuff, don't make it yourself at home. And if you domake it yourself at home, don't pack all of it in the van carrying yourentire team of operatives.
4) If you're going to get a Blaupunkt car stereo, pay the extra fewbills and get the one with the detachable faceplate, which you can jaminto the pocket of your orange down vest, so you don't end up carryingaround your pull-out stereo like some sort of robotic man-purse.
5) Don't have your wedding on a bluff overlooking the ocean, with adrop off of hundreds of feet to the jagged rocks below, even if thiswill allow you to duck when your evil nemesis whom you thought hadalready burned to death when you blew up his secret hideout lunges atyou in an attempt to kill both you and your bride-to-be, sending himplummeting hundreds of feet to a certain death on the jagged rocksbelow. It just isn't sporting. But, since he did fall, you can shootthe guy with a machine gun while he's on his way down.
Added: 22 May 2010
Vote: 10
Pretty bad
I saw this one based on a very positive Rotten Tomatoes review. Iusually shy away from SNL cast movies as most are pretty weak but gaveit a shot. I actually like the MacGruber skits on SNL. What you willget is closer to the Ladies Man than Ron Burgundy. The character istaken from the skit, but the movie wanders away from even that weaksauce most of the time. The MacGyver spoof concept had some potentialbut it is more of a bad Naked Gun with Forte's bathroom humourreplacing Neilson's Mr McGoo bumbling. Most of the acting with theexception of Wieg was pretty good, but there was just not much worthlaughing at, even if you have a crude sense of humour. The is amarginal renter.
User: Van Roberts (zardoz@bellsouth.net)Added: 24 May 2010
Vote: 10
"MacGruber" is MacRotten!
This "Saturday Night Live" inspired spoof of the legendary Richard DeanAnderson ABC-TV adventure series "MacGyver" (1985-92) has its moments.Trouble is those moments are few. Freshman writer & director JormaTaccone with "Saturday Night Live" scenarists Will Forte and JohnSolomon display a conspicuous lack of wit. The moronic humor in"MacGruber" yields lowest common denominator chuckles seasoned with anR-rated surfeit of F-bombs. For example, the only reason the dastardlyDieter Von Cunth has such an anatomical name is so the good guys canuse it as often as possible without appearing profane. The gratuitousabuse of the villain's surname quickly wears this joke out in no time.MacGruber turns into MacGoober whenever the shenanigans hit the fan. Heuses a buddy as a shield from three men armed with machine guns becausehe is so pusillanimous. Again, the humor is largely tasteless,infantile, and ad nauseam repetitive. Although he is a highly decoratedGreen Beret, Navy SEAL, and Army Ranger, our hero amounts to acompletely clueless '80s-style action hero. MacGruber turns intoMacGoober whenever the shenanigans hit the fan. Rarely do MacGruber'sspontaneous improvisational acts pay off. Remember, the real MacGyvershunned guns and converted ordinary household items into weapons.Nevertheless, MacGruber lacks the charisma of either Steve Martin'sInspector Clouseau or Steve Carrell's Maxwell Smart. MacGruber is socolossally arrogant you feel no sympathy for him when he is reduced tosoliciting oral sex. MacGruber qualifies as a MacIdiot.
"MacGruber" opens in Siberia after the villain's henchmen haveknocked-off a Russian convoy transporting the X-5 nuclear warhead.Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer of "Tombstone") smuggles the X-5 into theUnited States, but he still needs the pass codes to fire the missile.In Rio Bamba, Ecuador, Colonel Jim Faith (Powers Boothe of "ExtremePrejudice") and Lieutenant Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe of "Chaos")track down MacGruber to a remote monastery where the retired specialops legend exiled himself since his wife's death. Like John Rambo'smentor Colonel Samuel Trautman, Colonel Faith taught MacGruber (WillForte with an 80's mullet) everything he knows. Well, everything butexecuting a back flip. MacGruber has misled everybody into thinkingthat he has been deceased for a decade. He has withdrawn from the humanrace. He considers himself a man of peace. Colonel Faith explains thatDieter has stolen a dangerous nuclear warhead and has it aimed atWashington, D.C.
Predictably, MacGruber refuses to recover the warhead so Faith appealsto his sense of vengeance. It seems Dieter blew MacGruber's bride CaseyJanine Fitzpatrick ("Saturday Night Live" cohort Maya Rudolph of"Idiocracy") to smithereens at their wedding. Later, we learn thatMacGruber seduced Casey from Dieter and told her to abort Dieter'sunborn child. Ostensibly, this is the reason that Dieter kills Casey.When a gung-ho Lieutenant Dixon Piper pleads to accompany him,MacGruber turns him down and tells him off. Our hero assembles his ownteam of brawny heroes. Clearly, these muscle-heads constituteMacGruber's 'dream team.' MacGruber slaps together homemade C-4explosives and stores them in the delivery van with his trigger-happy'dream team.' As our protagonist bids farewell to both Colonel Faithand Lieutenant Piper, the C-4 explosives demolish the delivery van andobliterate MacGruber's 'dream team.' MacGruber runs around hystericallybegging anybody to call 911. When Faith relieves MacGruber of themission, our rugged hero begs to be reinstated, he even offers toperform oral sex on Lieutenant Piper. Piper rebuffs the blow job fromMacGruber but agrees to join his team. Faith stipulates that the teammust have three members. MacGruber recruits former aide-de-camp VickiSt. Elmo (Kristen Wiig of "Whip It"), and Vicki winds putting her neckas well as other anatomical parts on the line. Basically, "MacGruber"ridicules the conventional of formulaic, high-octane,testosterone-laced male actioneers. Unfortunately, it lacks both theoutlandish budget and insane hilarity of "Tropic Thunder." MacGrubertakes a slug in the thigh, and Vicki probes around with a pair ofpliers before she removes the bullet. Initially, she wanted to havenothing to do with MacGruber. Vicki harbors horrible memories ofMacGruber's wedding to Casey. When Dieter blew up Casey, Casey showeredher best friend Vicki with blood. When MacGruber found her, Vicki hadembarked upon a career as a musician. She realizes that she cannotresist being around MacGruber and joins MacGruber. Consequently,MacGruber demonstrates his lack of courage when he dresses Vicki tolook like him so she can distract the opposition.
Taccone stages several minor action sequences without flair. Guys blastaway at other, but the violence breaks no new ground compared to thelast "Rambo" sequel. "Indecent Proposal" lenser Brandon Trost makesthese low-budget antics look better than they have any right. Asidefrom one scene with an older woman posing nude for Dieter to paint,nudity is confined largely to our hero's bare buttocks. If "MacGruber"had been made in the 1980s, the only nudity would be beautiful femalenudity. At one point, Forte parades around with a piece of celeryprotruding from his bare buttocks as a way to distract the opposition.Later, Lieutenant Piper follows MacGruber's example. After he has sexwith Vicki, MacGruber visits his late wife's grave and has sex with heras a way to relieve his guilty conscience. A cemetery groundskeeperwatches in disbelief as a naked MacGruber has sex with an apparition.Of course, the groundskeeper cannot see Casey, but MacGruber believesthat she is there. Taccone saves the best scene for last. Our MacGoofyprotagonist finally triumphs over evildoer Val Kilmer. Not only doesMacGruber transform him into a sieve with his machine gun, but he alsoblasts Dieter with a grenade launcher. Were that not enough still,MacGruber urinates on Dieter's corpse. Too bad the previous 80 minuteswere not as insane and hare-brained. It is some consolation that thesoundtrack teems with classic Top-40 hits from the 1980.
Added: 30 August 2010
Vote: 4
Action and Comedy don't mess in MacGruber
I went into this film with pretty much no expectations but I thoughtthat I would like it since I found some of the SNL skits to be quitefunny. Now, am I not a fan of SNL but I since some of their skits andit was alright. So, I decided to watch MacGruber because I've rad somereviews and I was looking forward to see how it happened. Well, andsince I watched it, I hated it. It was completely not funny, it waslame, predictable and the dialogue was just pain stupid. There is a lotof crude and sexual jokes. They get old real fast and they aren'tfunny. I really didn't laugh at all through the movie, I was justwondering why I watched it. There were many weird and stupid scenesabout the movie, such as MacGruber dancing around with celery up hisass, two weird sex scenes (one with MacGruber doing it with his deadwife in a cemetery), all the dick jokes with MacGruber talking to theCornell and his partner, and the last scene was just a joke. The moviewas so dumb it wasn't funny. Though some of the actions scenes wereokay. Some were shocking how violent it was but it was alright. Theydidn't last that long anyway. And there were cameo's by a few WWEwrestler which was pretty cool, but they end up dying real quick anddon't do much. And I don't see how easily people are amused these days!
User: chriswilliams7125Added: 23 September 2010
Vote: 3
Will forte you suck! Kristen Wiig I'm disappointed.
Im a thirteen year old and i was looking forward to seeing this movieand was going to see it when it came out. Then the parental guide cameout for the film and i was disgusted. The perverted gross out bull crapthat they use in this film is gross and nauseating. The SNL sketchesare funny and creative but this film is just plane old crap.
I was really looking forward to seeing this flick with my dad and i asready to go. I was really mad. Im a Christian and the gross outreferences they use on god makes me want to vomit.
The sex scene is just to gross to talk about and i liked will fortebefore this came out now I'm just sick to my stomach. Im happy that youwere the bomb of the summer with only 8 million dollars made youdesserve it. Im gonna watch a good movie like Braveheart. If you seethis movie your just gross. If i could give this a negative rating idefinitely would but i cant so 1.
Added: 26 September 2010
Vote: 3
my god it is amazingly stupid!
this has maybe been the worst movie i have seen in my short life. ireally hope that i don't have another experience like that, this isridiculous and really hope that this movie will have absolutely nosuccess and it will be nominated for nothing but worst movie of alltimes.cheers and thanks god it's over. the plot is do ridiculous thatnot much movies can come to this frontier.i have pushed myself to watchit until the very end and in the end and have been closer to suicidemore than anything else. I don't know what Ryan does there, but thishas been an enormous downfall in it's career. please don't do thatmistake again. Not only reviews will say that but also normal people.it is amazingly terrible. don't do that ever again to the audience! theworld deserves better!
User: countryshackAdded: 5 October 2010
Vote: 3
Save Your Money
Please, Save Your Money!
Unless you have a double digit I.Q., are a Progressive Liberal, or ateen that hasn't matured yet, Don't See, Buy, or Rent this movie. Ofcourse, if you fit one of the three descriptions above you may reallylike this movie. Heck, for that matter, you may Love It! For Example:If you think that a naked man walking around with a piece of celery inhis rectum is funny than you will Love this useless simpleton garbage.
I've read comments from others that said: "This is an artistic humorousparody that you will love". I say: "B.S. to that. That comment neatlyfits into one of my three categories above." A good example of anartistic humorous parody would be the movie 'Airplane' but itdefinitely isn't MacGruber.
Now here is really the sad part that I'm sure many, like us, havefallen victim to.
My wife and I had our seats and started watching the movie. Fifteenminutes into the movie we realized that the trailer was hype and thatthe movie is really crap. Of course we don't want to admit it yet so wesit through another miserable fifteen minutes because we try to believethat the movie will somehow start to.....'Take Off'. And as we all knowit never does.
Now this is even worse than the sad part. We paid for our tickets!Granted we walked out after a half hour but....... The theater stillgot their money because we brought a couple of tickets. The Movie stillgot its cut because we brought a couple of tickets. The mostembarrassing thing, for us, is that our contribution helped keep thiskind of mindless refuge alive.
Added: 3 July 2010
Vote: 1
Owen Wilson's Poser
Whatever angle you look at it, Will Forte looks a hell of a lot likeOwn Wilson. Both are good in some rolls, but some rolls they can't actin. In this one, he is careening on the edge of crappy. This movie isborderline failure, and brings up the question, should SNL stop makingfilms? I made a blog on the issue and did a whole episode of Front RowSteve on whether or not SNL should continue their lines of films basedon sketches from the everlasting TV series. This movie was nothing moreI could call than an average, forgetter.
MacGruber is a parody/one big joke on MacGwyer. The plot is focusedaround MacGruber (Will Forte) who needs to find a crime boss namedDieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). After killing his team on accident,MacGruber is forced to find another team. He finds Dixon Piper (RyanPhillippe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig). Their clueless, but theyat least somewhat know what they are doing. They are now sent to findCunth and stop his plan, whatever it may be.
I'm sorry, I just don't feel like elaborating a plot thats been donemore times than I can count. This story is clich? and just boring allaround. There's nothing creative or unique here, same old thing.MacGruber is just a knock off, soon to be forgotten film that isnothing more special than if a High School kid with half a year of FilmSchool would make. The only difference is that might have some effortput into. I just cant find much more to say about this film, it's notthat great or well made. Just forget it like everyone else will in tenyears, or it could be an SNL film that will have annoying lines quotedforever and maybe achieve a cult status within the next years. DirectorJorma Taccone better stick with The Lonely Island and not do crappyfilms if he wants a successful career.
Starring: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, and Ryan Phillippe. Directed by:Jorma Taccone.
