Will Forte,
Kristen Wiig,
Ryan Phillippe,
Val Kilmer,
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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 MacGrub... read more
Directed by: Jorma Taccone
Release Date: May 21, 2010
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DVD Release Date: September 7, 2010
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April 25, 2013MacGruber isn't very funny but it does have a couple of laugh out loud moments. It's good that it doesn't milk these laugh out loud moments by repeating them but unfortunately it does with all the crap jokes. It's been done before and it has been done better (never brilliantly, b... read more
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January 19, 2013It's one joke, stretched over 90 minutes... I don't know that anyone expected this to be good, or really, what the purpose of writing a review about it would be. What you see is what you get: a series of decent gags, the occasional one hilarious, strung together lazily with somet... read more
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June 29, 2012I only own a film if I can watch it again and again and again and still enjoy it. Which I can do with this film. It's stupid and I think it's basicaly all the jokes Forte and Taccone couldn't get into SNL. But damnit it's funny. This was the first sign that Wiig was going to ... read more
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June 14, 2011Such 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 grea... read more
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April 2, 2011I don't even know what to say. What the hell did I just watch? MacGruber is so friggin' stupid, but it made me laugh with genuine amusement. MacGruber the character is an infantile and flippantly callous manchild who wouldn't win on Jeopardy if he were playing against Homer Simps... read more
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March 12, 2011Yea, it's incredibly stupid. It has a bad beginning, but this movie is freaking hilarious! Being a fan of the Saturday Night Live MacGruber skits, I sort of new what to expect. And this movie left me completely satisfied. Of course it's flawed, but if had me laughing all the way ... read more
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February 12, 2011Far far worse than I was expecting, this is what happens when you expand a 30-second Saturday Night Live sketch to a full-blown movie. MacGruber, a one-joke parody of MacGyver, becomes a one-joke movie. It's about an inept special agent who has to save the world from a criminal m... read more
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January 25, 2011Sometimes it's okay to be lowbrow. Maybe I was just in the right mood, but this had me giggling consistently, with several outright guffaws. Included one of the funniest sex scenes I've ever seen.
Critic Reviews
July 20, 2010
Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer
June 1, 2010
A.O. Scott, New York Times
A film that poses a philosophical question fundamental to our inquiry here, namely: "Why does this exist?"
June 1, 2010
Michael Phillips, At the Movies
Some of these two minute sketches look a little thin at 87 to 92 minutes. Full Review
May 24, 2010
Ruth McCann, Washington Post
You need a great character to make a bad thing good, and the action comedy MacGruber is sadly short on great characters. Full Review
May 24, 2010
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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 i... Full Review
May 24, 2010
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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 tha... Full Review
May 24, 2010
Dana Stevens, Slate
There's a conceptual flaw at this movie's heart: By the very nature of the sketch, MacGruber can't succeed on the big screen. Full Review
May 24, 2010
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Cut loose from the skit structure, screenwriters Forte, John Solomon and director Jorma Taccone seize upon a richer template, that of the ridiculous big-screen action-comedy refined by the Beverly Hil... Full Review
May 24, 2010
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The movie scores a few laughs with its startling use of bloody R-rated violence, and there are enjoyable turns by Kristen Wiig (as MacGruber's sidekick), Val Kilmer (as the international bad guy), and... Full Review
May 23, 2010
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies
... [succeeds] as a laser-sharp parody of all stripes of cliché-laden action blockbusters [and] as a consistently hilarious bad taste farce. Full Review
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