Dieter Von Cunth robs a Russian X5 nuclear warhead. Colonel James Faith travels to Rio Bamba, Ecuador, with Lieutenant Dixon Piper to summon retired special operative MacGruber to retrieve the X5.
MacGruber is considered deceased after the death of his beloved wife Casey by his archenemy Cunth during their wedding.
MacGruber teams up with Piper and Vicki St. Elmo and they learn that the evil Cunth intends to use the warhead to destroy Washington D.C....
I wasn't expecting nothing from this movie, after all the last decent movie from the SNL barn was way back in 1992, and things have gone from bad to worse with the SNL/big screen translation.
But this looked like fun, it looked a lot like the straight to video action films of the 1980s that me a nd my father used to watch every Friday night, and it delivered it in droves.
If you can bear the (quite funny) smutty humour and and the human scene vacuum that is Will Forte, you will have a lot of fun with this movie. Kilmer has not been this good in years as the villain, and seems to be having a ball delivering line after line of pure ham.
Phillipe fits into his role with ease, and does self deprecating very well.
The comedy as i said before is smutty and very childish, so many self certified movie snobs will balk at the idea of this, but the script is funny, the action scenes surprisingly good and violent and this film has one of the most funniest soundtracks that has been released in a while.
It's all predictable stuff, just like the TV show it was based on, but the most important thing is, it'll keep you entertained for 80 odd minutes.
MacGruber is considered deceased after the death of his beloved wife Casey by his archenemy Cunth during their wedding.
MacGruber teams up with Piper and Vicki St. Elmo and they learn that the evil Cunth intends to use the warhead to destroy Washington D.C....
I wasn't expecting nothing from this movie, after all the last decent movie from the SNL barn was way back in 1992, and things have gone from bad to worse with the SNL/big screen translation.
But this looked like fun, it looked a lot like the straight to video action films of the 1980s that me a nd my father used to watch every Friday night, and it delivered it in droves.
If you can bear the (quite funny) smutty humour and and the human scene vacuum that is Will Forte, you will have a lot of fun with this movie. Kilmer has not been this good in years as the villain, and seems to be having a ball delivering line after line of pure ham.
Phillipe fits into his role with ease, and does self deprecating very well.
The comedy as i said before is smutty and very childish, so many self certified movie snobs will balk at the idea of this, but the script is funny, the action scenes surprisingly good and violent and this film has one of the most funniest soundtracks that has been released in a while.
It's all predictable stuff, just like the TV show it was based on, but the most important thing is, it'll keep you entertained for 80 odd minutes.