MacGruber (2010)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 133
Fresh: 63 | Rotten: 70
It too often mistakes shock value for real humor, but MacGruber is better than many SNL films -- and better than it probably should be.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 15
It too often mistakes shock value for real humor, but MacGruber is better than many SNL films -- and better than it probably should be.
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Movie Info
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). ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Cast
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Will Forte
MacGruber -
Kristen Wiig
Vicki -
Ryan Phillippe
Piper -
Val Kilmer
Cunth, Dieter VonCunth -
Powers Boothe
Colonel Faith -
Maya Rudolph
Casey -
Rhys Coiro
Yerik Novikov -
Andy Mackenzie
Hoss -
Jasper Cole
Zeke -
Timothy V. Murphy
Constantine -
Tim Skousen
Senator Garver -
Robert Reid
Priest -
Jimmy G. Giesler
Janitor -
Chris Jericho
Frank Korver -
Mark Henry
Tut Beemer -
MVP
Vernon Freedom -
Great Khali
Tug Phelps -
Kane
Tanker Lutz -
Big Show
Brick Hughes -
Brandon Trost
Brick's Boyfriend -
Robert Washington
Cashier -
Chris Kittinger
Man in Tuxedo -
Marielle Heller
Clocky -
Derek Mears
Large Henchman -
John Gibson
Dealer -
Vic Browder
Control Room Guard -
Russ Dillen
Commander -
Michael David Aragon
Machine Room Guard -
Greg Alan Williams
Minister -
Chad Brummett
Military Officer -
Sandra Wood
Nude Model -
Matt Wood
Bartender -
Mark Dimitrijevic
Man in Café, Man in Ca... -
Amare Stoudemire
Himself -
Brian Petsos
Dude -
Alan D'Antoni
Russian Guard -
Cajardo Lindsey
Railroad Guard #1 -
Laurence Chavez
Compound Guard #2, Rail... -
Matt Christmas
Railroad Guard #3 -
Michael Owen
Railroad Bodyguard -
Edward A. Duran
Compound Guard #1 -
Tomas Sanchez
Compound Guard #3 -
Bobby Burns
Compound Guard #4 -
Bill Leaman
Compound Guard #5 -
Willie Weber
Compound Guard #6 -
Alan Tafoya
Charging Guard -
Michelle Waterson
Club Babe #1 -
Jason Trost
Smoking Guard -
Milos Milicevic
KFBR392 Guy -
Christina Rouner
News Anchor -
Eugene Nosoff
Russian Radio Voice
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All Critics (134) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (70) | DVD (9)
Taccone's 'MacGruber': Mainstream Esoterica
Top CriticA film that poses a philosophical question fundamental to our inquiry here, namely: "Why does this exist?"
Some of these two minute sketches look a little thin at 87 to 92 minutes.
You need a great character to make a bad thing good, and the action comedy MacGruber is sadly short on great characters.
While it would be unfair to saddle MacGruber with the "worst SNL movie of all-time" moniker (I can think of at least two that are more painful to endure), its place on the vaunted 2010 Worst 10 list is assured.
MacGruber is by no means a work of genius, or a piece of art, or even very good. But Forte and company have managed to make crude and lewd dunderheadedness laugh-out-loud funny here and there, and that, I guess, is something of an achievement.
"MacGruber" is an absolute waste of time and easily the worst movie of 2010.
It's not just him badly defusing bombs over and over. It's much stupider (and smarter) than that.
Bereft of any kind of laughs or remote giggles when not blatantly ripping off the Austin Powers mold...
My advice? Wear gloves, a surgical mask, and get the proper inoculations before entering the theatre. It's the first sexually transmitted comedy of the year.
This feature length version quickly outstays its welcome with uninspiring jokes and schoolboy humour.
Big-screen SNL skit explodes with crass humor, sex, blood.
It achieves wit in a realm where stupidity is too often deemed sufficient.
It's further proof, as if any were needed, of SNL producer Lorne Michaels' contempt for the audience.
Will Forte, director Jorma Taccone, and the sublime Kristen Wiig triumph with their own brand of unique, risky lunacy
An avalanche of scatalogical humour and lame jokes that make the Austin Powers films look like masterpieces by comparison.
If you're a fan of the SNL sketch, you'll like what you see here, though newcomers might be left asking why they bothered to adapt it for the big screen at all.
Forte is likeable as the renegade good guy but the humour relies too heavily on blatantly telegraphed sight gags and villains with rude-sounding names.
It's ridiculous, crude and, most importantly, jaw-achingly funny.
After a few promising opening gags, inspiration soon begins to fizzle out; the film ends up looking less smart than the material it's supposed to be parodying.
Will Forte, who hasn't starred in a movie before and looks extremely unlikely to do so again, lacks the slightest vestige of credibility or charm as MacGruber. He also cowrote the script. Let's just say comedy is not Forte's forte.
Throwaway but genuinely funny throughout, MacGruber plays like Hot Shots: Part Trois or a live-action Team America: World Police -- a summer six-pack movie that makes up for in laughs what it lacks in longevity.
Despite the occasional laugh, strong performances from Phillippe and the ever-reliable Wiig and the most ridiculous sex scene since Team America: World Police, jokes that are funny within the first five minutes became stale at an alarming rate.
MacGruber might be a wildly uneven ride, but it doesn't outstay its welcome and lined up against other Saturday Night Live productions it's hardly the worst of the bunch.
Unexpectedly, this feature-length cash-in on a mildly popular American comedy sketch is more fun than most of this year's bum-awful blockbuster crop put together.
Audience Reviews for MacGruber
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- Vicki: Wait, I'm a virgin.
- MacGruber: Shhhhhh... not for long.
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- MacGruber: Cause after I disarm this nuke, I'm gonna cut off your dick and...
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- MacGruber: Well I bet you wish your nose was a dick...so you could use it fuck butts!
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- Cunth: I was talking to the missile.
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- MacGruber: Well, then, if you'll excuse me, it's time to go pound some Cunth.
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- MacGruber: Well they were fucking great guys, and it's a fucking asshole of a day.
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