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No comic explosion, but not quite a dud, no Wayne's World, but not The Ladies Man either, MacGruber does manage to pull off the seemingly impossible mission of expanding a 90-second one-joke Saturday Night Live sketch into a feature film. What's next: "Toonces the Cat Who Could Drive a Car"? In those MacGruber sketches, Will Forte's mullet-maned hero "makes life-saving inventions out of household materials" but always gets sidetracked as the bomb he's defusing ticks down to its last 20 seconds. Blown up for the big screen, MacGruber finds a bigger payoff whenever the film sidetracks from the standard-issue '80s action movie plot, as witness MacGruber's deranged revenge fantasies toward a driver who hurled a drive-by insult at his car. MacGruber's secret weapon is Val Kilmer as a megalomaniacal villain (his name, not appropriate for a family website, is a profanely puerile running joke) with a stolen Russian nuclear warhead and a grudge against MacGruber. MacGruber's somewhat less than A-team includes Vicki St. Elmo (SNL MVP Kristin Wiig), more into her music than into saving the world, and straight arrow Lieutenant Piper (Ryan Phillippe), who begins to question MacGruber's unorthodox tactics (one involving a diversionary stalk of celery is just one of the film's more jaw-dropping gross-out gags). MacGruber may not set the world on fire, but the insanely committed Forte, like MacGruber, will do anything, no matter how obscene, to complete his mission. Mission pretty much accomplished, particularly in a sex scene that is the most outrageous of its kind since Team America: World Police (albeit, thankfully, not as graphic). --Donald Liebenson
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Only one American hero has earned the rank of Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger. Just one operative has been awarded 16 purple hearts, 3 congressional medals of honour and 7 presidential medals of bravery. And only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In 2010, Will Forte brings Saturday Night Live’s clueless soldier of fortune to the big screen in the action comedy MacGruber. In the 10 years since his fiancée was killed, special op MacGruber has sworn off a life of fighting crime with his bare hands. But when he learns that his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that’s been stolen by his sworn enemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), MacGruber figures he’s the only one tough enough for the job.
Assembling an elite team of experts—Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig)—MacGruber will navigate an army of assassins to hunt down Cunth and bring him to justice. His methods may be unorthodox. His crime scenes may get messy. But if you want the world saved right, you call in MacGruber.
Special Features:
Assembling an elite team of experts—Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig)—MacGruber will navigate an army of assassins to hunt down Cunth and bring him to justice. His methods may be unorthodox. His crime scenes may get messy. But if you want the world saved right, you call in MacGruber.
Special Features:
- 2 versions of feature: Unrated and Theatrical
- Feature Commentary with cast and crew
- Deleted scenes
- Gag reel
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
MacGruber is a feature length adapation of the Saturday Night Live bit featuring Will Forte as MacGruber, a thinly veiled parody of a certain retro TV show. When MacGruber's nemesis, Dieter von C*nth (Val Kilmer - Heat) steals a nuclear warhead from an ex-soviet bloc country, the US Army call in their number one guy to deal with the problem. MacGruber must ditch his life of peace at an Equadorian Monastery and reassemble his old team in order to stop the evil C*nth (pronounced as you might expect...) and finally avenge his wife's death. MacGruber runs around solving any situation with his assortment of household items and his ability to combine them in some sort of lethal manner, couple this with a natural propensity for "ripping throats" and you have yourself one deadly super-agent.
Ryan Phillipe (Crash) plays the straight guy to Forte's bumbling idiot and provides the institutional rigor for MacGruber to rebel against but is largely wasted in this kind of role. Kristen Wiig (Knocked Up) plays Vicki St. Elmo, our hero's love interest, bringing a lot of humour to the role with her insecure mannerisms and unfaltering obedience to MacGruber's idiotic schemes which, for some reason, generally involve her dressing up as MacGruber himself or some other guy. Val Kilmer plays a solid bad guy but the role is really a cardboard cut out.
The one thing I feel compelled to tell you before you part with your hard-earned cash; is that there are startling comparisons between this and Team America, I mean some of the jokes are nearly word-for-word; especially MacGruber offering his 'services' when begging his superiors to get what he wants. Funny nonetheless. MacGruber is awash with expletives so if you have an aversion to that kind of humour then it's probably best to give this a miss, if however you are totally fine with more instances of the F-word than there are other words in a given sentence then this film is definitely for you.
This film is very much like some of the all-time great spoof films with a style of humour very reminiscent of Hot Shots & Airplane. I think this just could be one of the under-promoted & underrated classic comedy films of the future.
Recommended for a hilarious and entertaining action film that doesn't take itself seriously and won't expect you to either.
Ryan Phillipe (Crash) plays the straight guy to Forte's bumbling idiot and provides the institutional rigor for MacGruber to rebel against but is largely wasted in this kind of role. Kristen Wiig (Knocked Up) plays Vicki St. Elmo, our hero's love interest, bringing a lot of humour to the role with her insecure mannerisms and unfaltering obedience to MacGruber's idiotic schemes which, for some reason, generally involve her dressing up as MacGruber himself or some other guy. Val Kilmer plays a solid bad guy but the role is really a cardboard cut out.
The one thing I feel compelled to tell you before you part with your hard-earned cash; is that there are startling comparisons between this and Team America, I mean some of the jokes are nearly word-for-word; especially MacGruber offering his 'services' when begging his superiors to get what he wants. Funny nonetheless. MacGruber is awash with expletives so if you have an aversion to that kind of humour then it's probably best to give this a miss, if however you are totally fine with more instances of the F-word than there are other words in a given sentence then this film is definitely for you.
This film is very much like some of the all-time great spoof films with a style of humour very reminiscent of Hot Shots & Airplane. I think this just could be one of the under-promoted & underrated classic comedy films of the future.
Recommended for a hilarious and entertaining action film that doesn't take itself seriously and won't expect you to either.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Marine Piat
Format:DVD
One of the funniest comedy films I've seen, hilarious spoof version of MacGyver from a talented comedian-actor! Worth watching for a laugh!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Sidney Scott
Format:DVD
its hard to say if this is good or bad some bits are really funny and some are just bad but there is a lot more good than bad as long as you take it for what it is a spoof you wont go far wrong. :-)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Top banana
Macgruber is hilarious its the perfect film for people like me who love silly American comedy will forte plays the brilliant lead roal macgruber the guy you just love to hate
Published 2 months ago by Danny
3.0 out of 5 stars
A poor Ace Ventura impersonating...
2 stars funny...
there are better movie at the same price .
i would trade it back if i had the chance. Read more
there are better movie at the same price .
i would trade it back if i had the chance. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Andrei
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Arrived quickly and well packaged. Some brilliant moments and a few familiar faces. Worth a watch if you like Hotshots
Published 4 months ago by Joe
3.0 out of 5 stars
Middle-of-the-road funny. As many gags hit the target as miss it.
As McGuyver spoof MacGruber, Will Forte's character requires 2 important things of the viewer to maximise enjoyment: knowing a bit about McGuyver, and being tolerant of juvenile... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Benminx
4.0 out of 5 stars
It is what it is
MacGruber was a seemingly pointless movie full of the typical characteristics of a laughable hero who wins through in the end. Read more
Published 13 months ago by BookWorm64
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funniest film I've seen in a long time!
This film is right up there with Anchor Man and The Hangover for me. I noticed many people moaning saying the humour isn't to their taste and therefore the score they give is a... Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. J. Wearn
1.0 out of 5 stars
Making a Bad Film Out of a Load of Old Rubbish
Although they speak vaguely the same language as us, the Americans are not the same as we Brits. I won't go into the socio and cultural differences that we have, but just say that... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sam
1.0 out of 5 stars
MacGruber [DVD]
Under no circumstances waste your hard earned cash on this drivel, it is, without question the worst film I've ever seen and I would give it zero stars if I could. Read more
Published 20 months ago by D. De Lyckefoldyoung
4.0 out of 5 stars
Thoroughly Enjoyable
I did not expect to find this that funny, but laughed out loud at at least 5 different scenes. The movie starts out as an over-the-top comedy tribute to 1980's action movies and... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mr. R. Howe
5.0 out of 5 stars
A favourite of 2010
Originally I wasn't particularly interested in watching MacGruber until I happened to see a 20 minute clip from around half way through the film and my god I could not stop... Read more
Published on 9 May 2011 by Feona G
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