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  2. May 21, 2010 · 47% Tomatometer 153 Reviews 35% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings In the decade since his fiancee was killed, an Army Ranger, Green Beret and Navy SEAL rolled into one (Will Forte) has sworn off...

  3. May 21, 2010 · MacGruber: Directed by Jorma Taccone. With Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer. Former special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his arch-enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C.

    • (47K)
    • Action, Comedy
    • Jorma Taccone
    • 2010-05-21
    • Its Box Office Failure Wasn’T Surprising, But Neither Is Its Cult Status
    • Will Forte Was 100% Committed to The Role
    • It’S A Perfect Spoof of Bombastic 1980s Action Films
    • The Supporting Cast Is Aces
    • Where You Can Watch It Now

    (Photo by Greg Peters/©Universal courtesy Everett Collection) Looking back at MacGruber now, Taccone, Forte, and Solomon couldn’t have believed that their hilariously aggressive R-rated comedy would be as successful as other SNL-based films like Wayne’s World or The Blues Brothers. They were asking summer movie audiences to embrace a profane movie ...

    There’s a moment in MacGruber when his teammates Vicki Gloria St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) are being shot at by mercenaries, and a distraction is necessary. Rising to the occasion, MacGruber pulls down his pants, shoves a stalk of celery in his posterior (Forte’s mom was on set that day), and prances around to draw a...

    “The Legendary MacGruber. Former Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Green Beret. Served six tours in Desert Storm, four in Bosnia, three each in Angola, Somalia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Sierra Leone. Recipient of 16 Purple Hearts, three Congressional Medals of Honor, seven Presidential Medals of Bravery, and starting tight end for the University of Tex...

    After 10 years, the sight of Kristen Wiig disguised as MacGruber or the bearded hitman Hoss Bender is still hilarious. Wiig’s performance as capable agent and talented vocalist Vicki St. Elmo is an absolute delight. It’s an all-in performance that features her screaming loudly in coffee shopsand dodging Will Forte’s sweat during their outrageous lo...

    FandangoNOW (rent/own), Amazon (rent/own), Google (rent/own), iTunes (rent/own), Vudu (rent/own) MacGruber was released on May 21, 2010. For another passionate defense of the film, check out our book, Rotten Movies We Love, which celebrates 101 movies from the green end of the spectrum that deserve another look.

    • 3 min
    • 2018
    • Mark Hofmeyer
  4. MacGruber (Will Forte) is completely deadpan with his delivery and truly believes he is a genius hero while those around him, friend Vicki St. Elmo (Kristin Wiig) and Lieutenant Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillipe), are just as vexed as the audience as to MacGruber's insane methods.

  5. Critical response. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 48% of 152 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "It too often mistakes shock value for real humor, but MacGruber is better than many SNL films – and better than it probably should be." [23]

  6. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. This is an action-comedy that forgot the action part of its equation, leaving only the base comedy to entertain us....

  7. Dec 17, 2021 · MacGruber” works overtime at feeling edgy (the gags are R-rated and then some), but that consists of variations on the same couple of jokes over and over, from Wiig’s character gushing about...

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