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Saturday, May 22, 2010

MacGruber (2010)

How do you take an amusing 2 or 3 minute recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live and turn it into a 90 minute feature length film? Well, you can’t, not successfully. At least if MACGRUBER is any indication. Hardly as bad as the critics are proclaiming but there’s no denying that the film just doesn’t work. Oh sure, there’s bound to be the occasional laugh. A cemetery sex scene had me chuckling and the amazing Kristen Wiig can bring a smile to your lips with the weakest of material. But a lot of it is just sophomoric adolescent humor and if celery stalks up the butt is your idea of funny then you might enjoy it. Will Forte is a talented comic but not enough to overcome the half witted screenplay. With Ryan Phillippe, Maya Rudolph, Powers Boothe and Val Kilmer.

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