MacGruber

I've had to do this on occasion.

Welcome to the first ever posting for what I hope to be a permanent (if sporadically posted) source for reviews of movies from the perspective of a person who just really likes cool movies, and doesn't have the pretentiousness of a professional movie critic. I like movies of all shapes and sizes, all genres, foreign and domestic, old school and new, big budget to low brow. I will watch every movie from start to finish, no matter how agonizingly awful, if only to have sufficient basis and examples of WHY it was so awful.

This mullet has stopped more terror threats than the CIA & FBI combined.

So, without further ado, let's get to the review. Our selection today is the Will Forte vehicle "MacGruber". For those unfamiliar with the character, it is a Saturday Night Live parody of a long running 1980's television series by the name of "MacGyver" starring a be-mulleted Richard Dean Anderson, whose genius character could make weapons and other devices from simple stuff laying around. The SNL shorts were hilarious, but as anyone knows, the track record of small screen SNL characters that got big screen treatments has been less than stellar. A collective groan was issued forth when this movie was announced, as we all asked each other, "How can this be turned into a 90 minute movie without running out of jokes in the first 90 seconds?". The answer: throw off the shackles of the television censors and let 'er rip. You already know that MacGruber is inept and a total screw-up from the get-go, so you have to sit there and wonder the depths that his stupidity will go, even after he blows up his entire crack team he just assembled for the mission (comprised of some great WWE cameos, best of all being The Big Show). Along for the ride are Ryan Philippe as the straight man Army guy, and fellow SNL alum Kristen Wiig as MacGruber's remaining team member/love interest. And now for the best part of this movie, and the main reason I will recommend it to anyone: Val Kilmer as bad guy terrorist Dieter Von Cunth. Besides being one of my favorite actors, he just totally eats this role up. Without him, I don't think I could have rated this movie as high as I have. I also have a different view of celery thanks to this movie.

Celery: good with peanut butter, and for getting you out of a jam.

So, in closing, I recommend at least a rent of "MacGruber", it isn't the best of the SNL movies but it is worth a once over for a dose of dick and fart jokes. I haven't developed a cool rating system yet, so for now we'll just do a scale of 1-10, 1=lowest and so forth. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to leave them.


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