Storyline
Ex-special operative MacGruber (Forte) is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Kilmer), who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.
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Cast
Brandon Trost, Val Kilmer, Kristen Wiig, Gregory Alan Williams, Powers Boothe, Maya Rudolph, Rhys Coiro, Brian Petsos, Ryan Phillippe, Dalip Singh Rana, Dalip Singh Rana, Will Forte, Timothy V. Murphy, Andy Mackenzie, Jasper Cole, Chris Jericho, Mark Henry, Paul Wight, Glenn Thomas Jacobs, Hassan Hamin Assad, Amar'e Stoudemire, Marielle Heller, Kevin Skousen
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Reviews
75
How the hell can you take an SNL skit that runs 90 seconds and stretch it to a 90-minute feature? Sounds excruciating. But MacGruber breaks the jinx by putting the skit in the context of a 1980s action movie and creating its own brand of explosive lunacy.
75
Premiere
MacGruber is crude. It’s obscene. The dialogue is puerile and the jokes adolescent. And for the most part, it's hilarious: a bawdy riot drunk on impropriety, which is why the movie works.
60
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.
60
Variety
How much mileage can a comedy get from a single joke? Quite a bit, judging from the guffaws-to-groaners ratio in MacGruber.
50
Orlando Sentinel
Kilmer makes a worthy, if somewhat underscripted villain. And some of the bits -- MacGruber idiotically setting traps that the bad guys never fall for -- tickle. But this still feels instantly dated, a "Hot Rod in a Role Models" era.
