Sabkush Entertainment: Review: MacGruberReview: MacGruber
Its a project that should inspire fear in the hearts of cinema lovers everywhere. The mulleted action hero known as MacGruber (Will Forte) is being given the feature film treatment. Intermittently funny in the two-minute sketches on Saturday Night Live, this inept character – who proves with mind-numbing consistency that he can never defuse a bomb on time – seems as deserving of a full-blown movie as androgynous Pat. But in his directorial debut, SNL writer Jorma Taccone achieves the impossible: MacGruber the film improves upon the (thin) source material and manages to become that rarity, a dumb movie thats actually wicked smart. At MacGrubers outset, we find this "real American hero" holed up in a cave. Having retreated from his life in special ops after the murder of his fiancée (Maya Rudolph), MacGruber preaches peace and sports some serious Michael Bolton locks. News of a stolen nuclear warhead draws him out of retirement, and forces the bungling agent to rustle up his faithful sidekicks, Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig), and military keener Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe, who deserves kudos for keeping a straight face throughout). Their hunt for the missing warhead leads them back to MacGrubers nemesis, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), the arms dealer whose surname provides the punchline to many of the movies profane jokes.
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