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MacGruber

MacGruber (2010)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 69

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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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 7 | 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

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Jorma Taccone

Sep 7, 2010

$8.0M

Universal/Rogue Pictures

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Critic Reviews for MacGruber

All Critics (131) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (73) | DVD (9)

Taccone's 'MacGruber': Mainstream Esoterica

July 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | Comment
Joe Baltake
Passionate Moviegoer
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A film that poses a philosophical question fundamental to our inquiry here, namely: "Why does this exist?"

June 1, 2010 Comment
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Some of these two minute sketches look a little thin at 87 to 92 minutes.

June 1, 2010 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comments (2)
Michael Phillips
At the Movies
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You need a great character to make a bad thing good, and the action comedy MacGruber is sadly short on great characters.

May 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Ruth McCann
Washington Post
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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.

May 24, 2010 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comments (4)
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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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.

May 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Comment (1)
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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It's not just him badly defusing bombs over and over. It's much stupider (and smarter) than that.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Dave White
Movies.com

Bereft of any kind of laughs or remote giggles when not blatantly ripping off the Austin Powers mold...

February 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

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.

October 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Elias Savada
Film Threat

This feature length version quickly outstays its welcome with uninspiring jokes and schoolboy humour.

October 9, 2010 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | Comments (271)
Mike Barnard
Future Movies UK Source: Future Movies UK

Big-screen SNL skit explodes with crass humor, sex, blood.

September 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media

It's Pat has a new rival for the title of "Worst SNL Movie."

September 7, 2010 Comment
Christopher Lloyd
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Sleazy does it!

September 4, 2010 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

It achieves wit in a realm where stupidity is too often deemed sufficient.

September 3, 2010 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

It's further proof, as if any were needed, of SNL producer Lorne Michaels' contempt for the audience.

July 19, 2010 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Will Forte, director Jorma Taccone, and the sublime Kristen Wiig triumph with their own brand of unique, risky lunacy

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

An avalanche of scatalogical humour and lame jokes that make the Austin Powers films look like masterpieces by comparison.

June 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Express | Comment
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

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.

June 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire | Comment
Sam Bathe
Fan The Fire

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.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Radio Times | Comment
Terry Staunton
Radio Times

It's ridiculous, crude and, most importantly, jaw-achingly funny.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Sun Online | Comment
Alex Zane
Sun Online
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Such a great transformation of MacGruber from SNL to the big screen. Highly recommended for fans of the MacGruber segments on SNL. Forte & Wiig together in this movie have natural chemistry and are a class act. Maya Rudolph's character, even though not in the movie a lot, is great & who could forget Ryan Phillippe's,

April 24, 2010
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Cassie Hill

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STUPID! MOVIE!!

September 7, 2010
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Cynthia S.

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MacGruber Quotes

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    1. MacGruber: You walk around like your shit dont stink. Well I've got news for you, your shit does stink [sniffs] It stinks like shit!
    – Submitted by Tom V (3 months ago)
    1. MacGruber: So what's going on?
    2. Vicki: Well it looks as if that handsome guy has some kind of tie to Cunth's men.
    3. MacGruber: You think he's handsome do you?
    4. Vicki: Well yeah kind of...
    5. Cunth: Well why don't you marry him then! Why don't you quite the case and marry him I'm being serious!
    – Submitted by Tom V (3 months ago)
    1. MacGruber: Allegedly! I do have to say that for legal purposes.
    – Submitted by Tom V (3 months ago)
    1. Piper: It is imperative Cunth doesn't get his hands on those codes.
    2. MacGruber: Ok thanks before you said that I thought it would be fine if he got them.
    – Submitted by Tom V (3 months ago)
    1. MacGruber: I'll suck your dick.
    – Submitted by Tom V (3 months ago)

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