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- 2010
- R
- Rogue
- 1 h 30 m
- 2010
- R
- Rogue
- 1 h 30 m
Summary 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, MacGruber figures he's the only one tough enough for the job. (Rogue Pictures)
Directed By: Jorma Taccone
Written By: Will Forte, John Solomon, Jorma Taccone
- 2010
- R
- Rogue
- 1 h 30 m
- 2010
- R
- Rogue
- 1 h 30 m
MacGruber
43
6.5
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Summary 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, MacGruber figures he's the only one tough enough for the job. (Rogue Pictures)
Directed By: Jorma Taccone
Written By: Will Forte, John Solomon, Jorma Taccone
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
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46% Mixed
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33% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
43
21% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
46% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
33% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
What makes Forte so funny is that he stalks through the flick cocksure and utterly deadpan.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 109 User Ratings
6.5
53% Positive
58 Ratings
58 Ratings
28% Mixed
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30 Ratings
19% Negative
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21 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 109 User Ratings
6.5
53% Positive
58 Ratings
58 Ratings
28% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
19% Negative
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
Macgruber, for me, is one of the greatest comedies of the 21st century. Of course, it's not for everyone, but one thing is for sure – you haven't seen anything like it.
Can't wait for Macgruber 2!
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**** amazing, gold. Immature,yes. But hey we all need a bit of it. Sex scenes with ghosts, couldn't ask for much more. Oh wait, yes there was more, including an 'A-team" being blown to pieces by home made dynamite
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Utterly disposable but diverting, MacGruber manages to spin feature-length product out of an idea that few would try expanding beyond a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
All thing considered, MacGruber’ is a lot better than it should be. That still doesn’t mean it’s all that great.
More Pistachio Disguisey than Austin Powers, this cheapjack comedy is nowhere near as ingenious as the man it sends up.
Watching this movie, I wished I knew how to use dental floss, a paper clip, and a crumpled movie ticket to break the projector.
The law of diminishing returns is enforced so stringently that the movie succeeds not only in negating its own comedy, but its very being.
Some people hate it, some people love it. Macgruber is a kind of movie which has such immature and idiotic humor cause it to be a large success. Going into this, i thought it was going to ****, i came out realizing how wrong i had been. Iv'e seen Macgruber 4 times and i still laugh at the jokes
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As an Englishman my only experiences with SNL as a broadcast show, is from the late 1980's when certain skits were sort of packaged up and shown on television as part of a late night American comedy compilation show.
This is also how I now enjoy the show, as all I can access are the skits that the 'Network' upload onto YouTube, it's effectively the same.... But I can now access them at will, and find out who the comedians on the show are.
I knew that The Blues Brothers, and Wayne's World were based on SNL characters, but I didn't know Coneheads was, such was my lack of knowledge about the (now) evergreen show.
Macgruber was a skit I found on YT and found relatively amusing (this despite the fact only the first series of the show it was parodying, 'McGyver', was shown on UK TV), and when I discovered a movie had been made I downloaded a copy and got stuck in.
It's also worth making a point that the film barely got a cinema release here, and no one I know has ever heard of it!
The film itself expands on the short skits of the series, introducing MacGruber (Will Forte) 10 years after his wife was killed and living a secluded life (a la Rambo III). He's called back into action after a Nuclear missile is stolen by his arch-nemesis **** (Val Kilmer), and therefore looks to bring back his old team.
However, they are all killed (due to their ineptitude) leaving MacGruber to go after **** with only his dead wife's best friend (and retired special forces operative), Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig), and wet-behind-the-ears operative Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe)
Cue comedic shenanigans as our heroes bumble their way through the movie, as the villain hams it up in a very unamusing way.
This is a sporadically funny movie, but it's not as funny as other films which have spoofed the same kind of genre in the past. Will Forte is probably the only actor who comes out of it with any sense of pride attached, everyone else (including Powers Boothe as 'The Colonel') probably won't mind anyone asking them 'what on Earth were you thinking!!??'.
Overall it's competently directed, the score is acceptable, and the run-time (at 90ish minutes) is bang on. It's just not as funny as people claim it to be, especially as its now (apparently) established a cult following!!!
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Silly, juvenile, **** absolutely brilliant. How could anyone have expected more from a full-length version of a MacGruber skit?? It is a silly SNL skit, for God's sake! Gratuitous in language, violence and 80's references, the only reason not to like this movie is if you thought they shouldn't have made a movie version of it. Deal with it. They made it. And if you were a fan of the skit, I cannot imagine why you wouldn't have loved the film.
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Some people may see it as a guilty pleasure but I wouldn't consider MacGruber that. It tries so hard to be funny and it can't even do that. I don't think Will Forte's humour is for everyone so that is hy I didn't care for it. The misfired jokes are almost non-stop and it gets to be so lame. Val Kilmer definitely the best part of this movie playing the villain. MacGruber is nothing more than another failed Saturday Night Live film that boasts a fairly funny cast but Will Forte uses up all the screen time trying to toot his own horn.
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This movie so terrible that I couldn't stand of this character is acting like a jerk,jackass,and ****! This is the worst spinoff that it's based on the SNL and it's nothing interesting about him. I couldn't even laugh this movie to the beginning and to the end. The jokes are so lame,the characters are so stupid,the story is a mess,the plot makes no sense about the character and they couldn't explain about him,it's just a based on the the character that he did shorts in SNL that's all they got. And how so STUPID that this movie is completely dumb that the viewers are enjoying this movie that is nothing to offer! Those viewers are idiots and that's fine like that! The critics are SO STUPID! Hey viewers,SHUT THE F@#$K UP,NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW YOUR REVIEWING ARE,GO ENJOY IN THE WATER SLIDE FOR STUPID MOVIE!
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Production Company
Broadway Video,
Michaels Goldwyn,
Relativity Media
Release Date May 21, 2010
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
Tagline The Ultimate Tool
Website
http://www.macgruber.com/
Awards
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 2 Nominations
IGN Summer Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
