MacGruber

Plot synopsis:
In eastern Siberia's Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Dieter Von Cunth and his men take control of the X-5 missile, which has a nuclear warhead. In Ecuador, Col. Jim Faith and Lt. Dixon Piper are searching for former Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger MacGruber. The two men find him meditating in a chapel, and try to convince him to retrieve the warhead. MacGruber refuses; later that night, MacGruber explodes into a fit of rage after a flashback where Cunth killed his fiancée, Casey Fitzpatrick, at their wedding; he then accepts offer.
After having a heated conversation with Faith and Piper at The Pentagon, MacGruber forms his own team to pursue Cunth. MacGruber recruits all but his long-time friend Vicki St. Elmo and Brick Hughes. MacGruber meets Faith and Piper on a tarmac, while his team is in a van with his homemade C-4 explosives. The van explodes, killing the team and MacGruber is removed from the case. MacGruber convinces Piper to form a new team, now including Vicki.
The group travels to Cunth's nightclub in Las Vegas. MacGruber gets on stage and announces who he is, his intentions, and where he will be the next day. The team sets up a sting operation with Vicki portraying MacGruber. Hoss Bender, one of Cunth's henchmen, attacks the van MacGruber and Piper are in, but MacGruber runs down Bender. With Vicki disguised as Bender and Piper disguised as MacGruber, the team breaks into a warehouse to stop Cunth from getting the passwords to operate the rocket. MacGruber distracts the guards and Piper kills most of the men, but is unable to stop the transfer of the pass codes. The team goes to a charity event Cunth is holding and Cunth's guards throw MacGruber out.
MacGruber returns to the Pentagon where Faith reprimands him and takes him off of the case. Soldiers attack and MacGruber uses Piper as a human shield to survive; Vicki and MacGruber escape. Piper survives since he was wearing a bulletproof vest, but leaves since MacGruber used him as protection. Vicki and MacGruber return to Vicki's house where the two have sex. MacGruber goes to his wife's grave in shame, but her ghost gives her blessing. MacGruber then has sex with the ghost of his wife on her tombstone.
Upon returning to Vicki's house, MacGruber discovers that Cunth has kidnapped her and what Cunth's plan is: to bomb the State of the Union address. Cunth calls MacGruber to gloat, but MacGruber traces the call. MacGruber and Piper make their way into Cunth's compound. Soldiers capture MacGruber and Piper and bring them to Vicki and the missile. The group overpowers Cunth and his men and MacGruber handcuffs Cunth to a handrail. MacGruber removes the nuclear component and guidance system before his team escapes as the missile explodes.
Six months later, MacGruber and Vicki are getting married. Also present at the wedding as ghosts are his dead team members. MacGruber spots a disfigured Cunth with an RPG. MacGruber saves Vicki, and battles Cunth before throwing him off a cliff behind the altar, shooting him with a machine gun and launching a grenade as he falls, incinerating the corpse, and finally urinating on it at the foot of the cliff.

Tags: comedy, murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, humor, revenge

Review:
Will Forte does a great job with this movie by giving it a facade of half-wit humor and making fun of itself in subtle and also obvious ways.
The good parodies are really enjoyable, and I classify MacGruber as a good parody.I saw this at my local theater last night and while there weren't many other viewers, there was an almost steady stream of laughs throughout the movie.
Based on Forte's sketch, MacGruber is an American war hero and MacGyver parody known for failing to disarm bombs in the nick of time.
Von Cunth is the man who murdered MacGruber's bride on their wedding day and he's just stolen a nuclear warhead.I hadn't seen much of the original sketches until a friend of mine heard about the MACGRUBER movie and sat me down to watch the sketches on YouTube.
This movie was funny and it got more hilarious each time I watched it.
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.The movie reeks of old school 80's action films and does a decent job of balancing the oddball humor with decent action sequences.
I love Kristin Wiig's quiet awkwardness that she brings to her characters and Ryan Phillipe did a goo job as the film's straight man, the voice of reason against MacGruber's idiocy.
A lot of silly humour which had its affect.This movie is crap in the best way, meaning you're watching and won't think good of it in the first minutes but it proves you wrong and you'll end up liking this even loving it.All the characters have a issue that makes them fun to watch.
I wasn't a fan of the sketch on SNL and was scared off by the poor reviews and its box office failure, but let me tell you this movie is really, really funny.
A full-length film version of a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch may seem anachronistic these days; after all, it seemed the SNL movie finally died out way back in 1999/2000 with the one-two TKO of SUPERSTAR and THE LADIES MAN.
In an age of YouTube and instant dissemination of, well, everything, they know that the best way to reach the widest audience at a level that truly connects is through their pop umbilical cords.Will Forte's "MacGruber" sketches follow an identical formula: MacGruber, a hyper skilled MacGyver parody (we learn in the opening of the film that he has something like 16 Purple Hearts and four Medals of Honor, and has somehow served multiple tours of duty as a member of every branch of the armed forces) is trapped in a control room of some bad guy's lair with his assistant, Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and a third person played by that week's guest star.
Support is provided by Kristen Wiig as Vicki St. Elmo, a woman as strangely trapped in 1989-era style as MacGruber, as well as Ryan Phillippe as Lt. Dixon Piper, who actually seems to know what he's doing, if he can ever get through to MacGruber, whose home-made tactics not only generally fail to work, but often make things worse.
Taccone and Forte give them lines that echo almost exactly what the average audience member might be thinking when MacGruber distracts some baddies by stripping down and utilizing a piece of celery in an interesting way.
MacGruber is a foul-mouthed near-deviant whose dedication to his country is matched only by his penchant for public nudity.Forte is a dynamo on screen, showing that he, like Will Ferrell and others before him, will do absolutely anything to get a laugh, no matter how potentially embarrassing.
Taccone and Forte have great fun messing with the conventions of action movies in general – and "MacGyver" in particular, though I doubt MacGyver ever offered to fellate a man to accomplish the mission.
The best thing that can be said of MACGRUBER is that in the end, the intelligence and cleverness of its creators situate this film happily much closer to the work of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg than to the Butabi Brothers.
The funny thing is that it really looks like an action film.
I had seen the previous sketches and the film is so much better.Don't get me wrong many will probably be offended by the coarse language used (hence the bad reviews) and the antics MacGruber gets up to.
But if you are not easily offended I'm sure you will enjoy this movie as much as I did.A Cheesy, Offensive, Action Comedy that I couldn't stop laughing at.
I felt Ryan Phillipe was an odd choice for the straight man because I didn't think he could hold the screen against Forte, but he grew on me during the film and in the end proved that he was indeed willing to 'go there' to get the laughs.
While Kilmer doesn't come near that level of comedic ownership, he does balance out nicely with the rest of the cast and digs into the second-grade humor when it's called for.While it may play out to be one of the year's biggest box office disasters, MacGruber will ride on and gain a solid life on DVD as a cult comedy, not unlike Hot Rod, starring Andy Samberg, another SNL superstar.
And for most of the movie Macgruber is a loser, but once he starts ripping throats, s*** gets real.With the recognizable homage to the SNL sketches near the end many laugh out loud moments such as; the old celery trick, humping a gave stone, and multiple intense orgasms, Macgruber did it's job.
From the offensive naming of the characters to its overuse of bathroom humour (which, let's face it, was never really genuinely funny to begin with), MacGruber was the worst movie that I can recall seeing since the days of Leonard Part 6 and Howard the Duck.
The plot is silly but also funny; the fans of "MacGyver" may enjoy this film and the stupidities of MacGruber, the agent that does not use weapons, more than I did.
It is a ridiculously over-the-top, stupid and vulgar comedy, but it's FUNNY AS HELL.HARD R rating.Not only are they spoofing MacGyver, but they're poking funny at 80's film style in general.
I was more then pleasantly surprised.The set pieces were obvious and you could see what was going to happen ages before it actually happened but that didn't stop this film being funny.I laughed myself silly on numerous occasions.THe premise is fairly self explanatory, they tell you whats going on in the first 5 minutes.
The characters are a bit one dimensional but MacGruber, his side kicks played by the brilliant Kristen Wiig and the ever handsome Ryan Phillipe were very funny and a great foil for the stupidness that was MacGruber.This film is definitely not going to win any Oscars or be lasting in your memory but for the duration of the film you will be entertained.Only go and see if you like this type of Superbad or Role Model-esquire type of films.Leave your brain at the door and you'll be sorted..
Although it had gotten good reviews, SNL-based films are hit and miss and Will Forte is not a terribly great comedian in my opinion.
I should have known better than going to this movie, since I don't find the MacGruber skit that funny to begin with.
After much persuasion and deep thought, MacGruber gears up for another mission.Along with MacGruber are Ryan Phillippe and Kristin Wiig, I feel like I don't have to go much further as I'm sure you can figure out the plot and how it will end just by watching the trailer.
I went to see this movie after hearing a CNN critic say he "really, really, really liked it" and the sex scenes were "hilarious and inventive." Having seen and enjoyed several of the SNL MacGruber skits, I naturally thought "how could I lose." Well I feel I lost big time.
This is just boring and plain stupid because there was no script for this movie so I won't waste my time and yours talking about some plot that doesn't exist.Let's go to acting!!!
My wife and I just returned from seeing this bomb.Was unsure of what to expect since there were an equal number of positive and negative reviews.Not sure what kind of sick mind thought that this movie was good and/or worth seeing.SNL cast members were really awful in their roles as were the WWE (although that was to be expected).Neither the film nor the characters had any redeeming features.The film raised crudeness to a whole new level - gag.This has to be one of the worst films ever made.Can't understand why they made it or how they got funding.The best part of the movie was the ending - meaning it was over.Don't waste your time or money..
It's a parodied action flick and so you get one of these movies that tries to balance good action with comedy, and many of them fail because they forget to be funny.
While it's not laugh after laugh it's still a good amount of funny and the action scenes are well done.The thing is, it's not the kind of movie with a lot of replay value, though I think I would watch it again, it will be a long time before I do.
Just because the SNL sketches staring this character were good and funny, the same does not apply to this movie.The thing is , pretty much all of the action and story felt out of the place - we were presented with the classic scene where the old associate asks our hero to come back and help save the world ; then the assemble of an elite team and last , the pursuit of the old nemesis.Still, the story didn't feel right.
I think Forte's performance was good and he delivered what one could expect , and considering the character's childish moment , based in the past sketches.I hope SNL crew learn from their mistakes and don't ever release another movie based in a sketch , since it's fate is already known..
"Time to go pound some Cunth."I'm completely unfamiliar with the MacGruber character, as I've never seen the Saturday Night Live skit that his character originated from.
If you've seen any of the other SNL movies, then you have a pretty good idea of what to expect from this one.
Really?) That kind of humor won't appeal to everyone, but what kind does?Kristen Wiig was great (I'll happily admit that I love that woman), Will Forte was funny in spots, Val Kilmer was a bit of a failure as his character (I bet Heat feels like a loooong time ago), and Ryan Phillippe just seemed shocked that this is what his career has come to (Celery?
MacGruberThere are three telltale signs you're watching a comedy based on a Saturday Night Live sketch: the title character is wearing a wig, the jokes are abysmal, and there are no Asians in the cast.Obeying that rule of three is this offering inspired by MacGyver.When his nemesis Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) hijacks a nuclear warhead, ex-special agent MacGruber (Will Forte) comes out of retirement with a vengeance.Forming a team consisting of Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Lt. Piper (Ryan Phillippe), MacGruber sets out to stop Von Cunth from getting the passcodes needed to launch the warhead.While his minute-long sketches usually find MacGruber defusing a bomb, in his film debut, however, he just stars in one.Pieced together with a pipe cleaner plot and poop jokes, MacGruber's big mistake is that, unlike SNL, it doesn't use a flashing laugh prompter to tell viewers something is funny.
I went into this film with pretty much no expectations but I thought that I would like it since I found some of the SNL skits to be quite funny.
I usually will suffer through a horrible movie just to see if it develops into something better, but I just couldn't take it.MacGruber is basically an hour and a half long SNL skit.
The humor that makes you laugh while watching a MacGruber skit on SNL cannot be transferred into a movie.
Like most other SNL movies, MacGruber falls short.
I thought Phillipe would seem out of place among the SNL regulars but fills the role well and I found him to be a great character to pair up with Forte creating some brilliant scenesOverall, the film dishes out top notch sketches and memorable scenes and quotes.
in the beginning it feels like a serious action/drama movie but then once the main character is introduced it gets very bad..
I was full of anticipation before I hit the play button :) I love a good parody and thought this would be something like "The man with a naked gun", "Hot shots", or even MacGyver meets Jim Carrey...First few minutes was not too bad...a little flashback to Rambo 3...after 30 minutes I hit the stop button, which I think I have never done before!
Maybe the movie got better in the end, and maybe I am being unfair and stepping on the toes of some hardcore MacGruber fans here...but please don't let your poor kids/teens watch something as disturbed and pathetic as this movie, isn't the world bad enough as it is?.
MacGruber has a lot of really funny scenes and great one-liners, but could have been skits split into an episode of SNL.
The cast was a good as the normal SNL cast, the only difference is in this episode Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer are co-guest stars.I found funny where the sex scenes.
I honestly believe that Wayne's World being such a success has tainted the minds of the all the SNL producers into thinking any skit that is funny for 5 minutes will translate into an amazing hour and 45 minutes movies.Monday, May 24, 2010...written by John Richards on http://aroundthemovies.com.
All I know is that Will Forte is a pretty funny guy and his character proved that, just wish the film and the rest of the cast was better..
But in the sense that it is just an insane parody of action adventure movies with the central character a continuation of the SNL MacGruber, it is funny and crazy.
So every time he messes up it is apparently hilarious, or it must have been to the writers who found it so funny that they didn't bother writing any more jokes to y'know top it off.It reminds me of almost every Will Ferrell film where he is great because we are told so.
The cleverness is limited to character names (Val Kilmer plays Dieter Von Cunth) and Kristen Wiig writhing on the floor of a coffee shop at the sound of gunfire in her earpiece.Wiig and co-star Ryan Phillippe (Lt. Dixon Piper) are mostly there to counter the obnoxious, repetitive and blunt behavior of Forte's MacGruber.
Hell yes to this movie, this has to be one of the greatest stupid comedy films I've seen in a long time.
The actor who played MacGruber fitted the role exceptionally great and was just what the film needed.If you ever liked Airplane and Naked Gun I suggest watching this film.
But this was as if they took one of the worse Saturday Night Live skits, one of those you can't believe they really thought was going to be funny, and stretched it out into a movie.
An embarrassing film for the likes of Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe, Kristen Wiig.
Yes, there are good actors in it other then Mr. Kilmer - but definitely except the one who plays MacGruber, Will Forte.
Like I said, I watched it because of Val Kilmer otherwise it's a very dumb movie with lots of boring, filled with been-used-a-zillion-times-before kind of jokes..
I was not really looking forward to seeing MacGruber but all-in-all I had a good time watching it.
Honestly this is the only movie in the world that actually gets funnier the more times you watch.
It is dead pan humor and while it gets better as it progresses I am still left wondering if the producers had a few dollars leftover after a bigger production and decided to waste it on this.While it would most certainly come under the "Comedy" genre, it is by no means a very funny or side splitting type of film.The acting is perfect and the plot is sound but the the movie just isn't any good, as a comedy like.
I haven't had the pleasure of having watched the Saturday Night Live sketches, so I didn't even know that this movie and the characters were based on a SNL sketch.
The funniest parts of this movie is when MacGruber acts super obnoxious and crazy, and his obnoxious stupidity is actually sort of entertaining to watch in this film.
You can tell the guy that plays MacGruber would do anything for a laugh and it really shows in this film, even going as far to do really embarrassing stuff on screen.
I really like Powers Booth, so he made the movie less terrible, but I don't think I'm gonna watch it ever again..
MacGruber (2010) This is an action comedy film based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name.
If you aren't a fan of SNL or never watched Macgyver, this movie will likely be lost on you.
That's all you need to know.Two things should be addressed regarding this film:1) The cast is surprisingly good with Will Forte, Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions) work really well off of one another.
The writing in this film is not for everyone - but if silly, over-the-top comedy is your thing, then you'll love this movie.
If you don't need a bigger meaning from every film you watch and love big belly laughs - than you'll love this movie.