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- Peacock
- Dec 16, 2021
- Peacock
- Dec 16, 2021
Summary MacGruber (Will Forte) is finally released from jail after 10 years and with help from Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe), seeks to stop Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane) from destroying the world.
Created By: Will Forte, John Solomon, Jorma Taccone
- Peacock
- Dec 16, 2021
- Peacock
- Dec 16, 2021
Summary MacGruber (Will Forte) is finally released from jail after 10 years and with help from Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe), seeks to stop Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane) from destroying the world.
Created By: Will Forte, John Solomon, Jorma Taccone
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
64
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Goofy dresses, goofy names, goofy voices, or that trusty tape deck, “MacGruber” has everything you could want from a comedy homecoming nearly a dozen years in the making.
"MacGruber" the show is about as stupidly funny as you would hope. ... When it gets back to Forte and whatever dimwitted plan is forming in MacGruber's head, this series proves why the character deserves such an epic resurrection, and a second season.
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
5.9
53% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
33% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Looks great, but where are Forte and Wiig? I just forced myself to finish episode 5. Nice helicopters, I guess? Wiig is allowed barely a pair of 30-second gags (they are wonderful, classic Wiig, both her opening number and her "ad libbed" speech a few episodes later). However, the whole thing feels like it's resting just a bit heavy on the humor inherent in many of the situations. Too much of the dialogue is just exposition. If I were a professional critic or comic, I might take the time to go back, rewatch this plodding excuse for a talkie, come up with a few more devastating turns of phrase, and list the dozens of missed opportunities for this film's all-star cast to have landed any number of the kinds of quips we all know and love them for. Please do better next season. I want to hear "30 seconds, MacGruber!" at least twice in every episode, not once in five. I want about a thousand times more expert engineering and Tandying by Forte. And maybe pick up the pace in the editing room. Do I make myself perfectly clear? I love you all very much. (Last Man on Earth should have gotten another twenty seasons, change my mind.)
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SEASON 1
A fun binge for fans of Forte and/or "whoever smelt it dealt it" jokes. [Feb 2022, p.101]
In all, whether “MacGruber” works for you, or doesn’t, will depend on your patience for sophomoric puns and your knowledge of and deep interest in soldier-of-fortune flicks. But while much of the show can leave the uninitiated cold, its unity of tone, and its ability to keep spinning its simple premise into madness, are genuinely impressive. Chalk up another win for Forte’s unkillable hero.
The show still goofs amusingly on how the one-man-army brand of patriotism sold by so many action movies is actually just raging narcissism, and Forte remains an expert at poor attempts to disguise a tantrum as laconic cool. ... It’s a shame, though, that this supersized version can’t sustain its satirical ambitions or its goofy emotional notes as well as, say, a longer-form Ferrell effort like Talladega Nights.
This latest incarnation hasn’t quite reached the popping point for the brand, but it also doesn’t feel like TV has somehow become its ideal vehicle. The standout parts are still every bit as funny, while the gaps between those parts have only grown.
An unnecessary reminder that not everything that's funny for three minutes works for two hours, much less four.
It's Will Forte being Will Forte. He can play only one way. I liked it for a bit in The Last Man on Earth, but it's growing stale now.
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SEASON 1
I didn't find it funny on SNL, so it's a no for me. In fact, outside of a few cameos, I don't find Will Forte very funny. He's great when he shows up as a secondary character in a skit or on someone else's show, but I don't think he's solid enough to carry a show by himself. Take Last Man on Earth for example. The real winners were everyone else on the show, tbh. He was just the annoying foil to them, but never really grew as a character. I guess that could be funny, but more often than not, it was just plain annoying.
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