MacGruber

Yeah … I saw MacGruber. I’m not entirely sure why either. And the fact that I laughed many times confuses me. This should have been one of the all time worst movies yet it wasn’t. Was MacGruber actually good? Is that possible?

I’m unsure why of all the current Saturday Night Live sketches MacGruber was given the nod. And since it made single digit millions it’s clear that no one was asking for it. Yet if you stumble across it, don’t run away screaming. There is some dark dark humor to be found in there. MacGruber's obsession with the license plate number of a guy who pissed him off, his pleading to get Ryan Phillippe on his team, and the climatic scene that was the movie version of the actual skit it was based on were all highlights. Then again there were just as many parts that were so twisted I’m not sure if they still qualify as funny. This included a lot of Will Forte ass including multiple sex scenes that defy description. I think the balance came out on the funny side of the margin but it was close.

This is Will Forte’s character so he definitely took advantage of the R-rating to provide more depth to MacGruber. Mainly he made him a complete prick. Hopefully Kristen Wiig will get better roles down the road but she shined where she could. She had a couple great scenes where she would answer in such a quiet voice that it was automatically funny. Now the non-SNL folks were Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, and Powers Boothe and who doesn’t want more Powers in their cinema? Phillippe was a solid straight man to Forte, while big fat Kilmer just went all out as the bad guy. Good for them for trying!

So MacGruber has come and gone and the world did not care. I guess I could have saved the 10 bucks but what's done is done.

5 out of 10