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MacGruber

2010

Jorma Taccone

Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe ...

4.5

978

Action. Adventure. Comedy A comedy based on Will Forte's bumbling secret agent whose lack of skill and abundance of personal problems serve as a detriment to him -- and those around him.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"How the hell can you take an SNL skit that runs 90 seconds and stretch it to a 90-minute feature? Sounds excruciating (...) putting the skit in the context of a 1980s action movie (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"After a few promising opening gags, inspiration soon begins to fizzle out; the film ends up looking less smart than the material it's supposed to be parodying (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kate Muir The Times	"An action-comedy-thriller, MacGruber is based on a recurring American Saturday Night Live sketch -- a joke funny for 20 seconds, but not 99 minutes."	NEG
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"It isn't exactly good, but for audiences in search of nothing more than a few silly chuckles, it should prove good enough."	NEU
United States	Ruth McCann The Washington Post	You need a great character to make a bad thing good, and the action comedy MacGruber is sadly short on great characters.	NEG
United States	Andrew Schenker Slant	"Like many a contemporary lowbrow comedy, MacGruber's at its best when it's most vulgar"	NEU
Canada	Rick Groen The Globe and Mail	"It's MacAwful.2	NEG

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