Kristen Wiig lends it a bit of class as the hero's moll, Vicki St Elmo, but Forte is a pain, the scatological crudity unrelenting, and the air of pointlessness unignorable.

| Mar 30, 2019

A brash, intermittently funny, but predictably disposable movie, just about good enough for a switch-off-brain DVD rental.

| Mar 30, 2019

An action-comedy-thriller (although the term "dud" is better), MacGruber is based on a recurring American Saturday Night Live sketch -- a joke funny for 20 seconds, but not 99 minutes.

| Mar 30, 2019

Any fans of satire who haven't checked out MacGruber yet, prepare to be converted into believers like the man himself when he finally uses a gun for the first time.

| Dec 5, 2018

The whole thing is utterly tone deaf.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 6, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2010

Despite the occasional laugh, strong performances from Phillippe and the ever-reliable Wiig and the most ridiculous sex scene since Team America: World Police, jokes that are funny within the first five minutes became stale at an alarming rate.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2010

Unexpectedly, this feature-length cash-in on a mildly popular American comedy sketch is more fun than most of this year's bum-awful blockbuster crop put together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2010

More Pistachio Disguisey than Austin Powers, this cheapjack comedy is nowhere near as ingenious as the man it sends up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2010

A film that poses a philosophical question fundamental to our inquiry here, namely: "Why does this exist?"

| Jun 1, 2010

Some of these two minute sketches look a little thin at 87 to 92 minutes.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2010

The film goes by in a wash of uninspired action and unmemorable comedy; the daffy, mock ingenuity of the original sketch is long gone, and MacGruber's ineffectualness has degraded into flat-out incompetence, with far fewer comedic rewards.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 27, 2010

You need a great character to make a bad thing good, and the action comedy MacGruber is sadly short on great characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 24, 2010

MacGruber is by no means a work of genius, or a piece of art, or even very good. But Forte and company have managed to make crude and lewd dunderheadedness laugh-out-loud funny here and there, and that, I guess, is something of an achievement.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 24, 2010

There's a conceptual flaw at this movie's heart: By the very nature of the sketch, MacGruber can't succeed on the big screen.

| May 24, 2010

MacGruber alternates quick bursts of laugh-out-loud funniness with long dry stretches. It isn't exactly good, but for audiences in search of nothing more than a few silly chuckles, it should prove good enough.

| Original Score: C+ | May 24, 2010

Cut loose from the skit structure, screenwriters Forte, John Solomon and director Jorma Taccone seize upon a richer template, that of the ridiculous big-screen action-comedy refined by the Beverly Hills Cop movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2010

The movie scores a few laughs with its startling use of bloody R-rated violence, and there are enjoyable turns by Kristen Wiig (as MacGruber's sidekick), Val Kilmer (as the international bad guy), and Powers Boothe (as the good guys' commanding officer)

| May 24, 2010

... [succeeds] as a laser-sharp parody of all stripes of cliché-laden action blockbusters [and] as a consistently hilarious bad taste farce.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 23, 2010

Today we dig anti-comedy, thinking that we discovered the joke, and director Jorma Taccone understands that odd tone of straight-faced, almost surrealist bluster.

| Original Score: B | May 21, 2010