MacGruber [Blu-ray]

Director: Jorma Taccone Jorma Taccone

Overview

Will Forte brings his Saturday Night Live character MacGruber to the screen with this action comedy directed by Jorma Taccone. After bad guys killed his wife (Maya Rudolph), soldier of fortune MacGruber (Forte) devoted his life to peace. But when his old nemesis (Val Kilmer) gets control of a nuclear weapon, MacGruber's former boss (Powers Boothe) convinces him to risk life and limb one more time with the help of a new team (Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe).

Product Details

Release Date:	05/04/2021
UPC:	0683904635273
Original Release:	2010
Source:	Ushe
Language:	English
Sales rank:	41,140

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Will Forte	MacGruber
Kristen Wiig	Vicki St. Elmo
Ryan Phillippe	Lieutenant Dixon Piper
Powers Boothe	Colonel Faith
Maya Rudolph	Casey
Val Kilmer	Dieter Von Cunth
Rhys Coiro	Yerik Novikov
Andy Mackenzie	Hoss
Jasper Cole	Zeke
Tim Murphy	Constantine,Constantine
Kevin Skousen	Senator Garver,Senator Garver
Robert M. Reid	Priest
Jimmy 'G' Geisler	Janitor
Chris Jericho	Frank Korver
Mark Henry	Tut Beemer
MVP	Vernon Freedom
Kane	Tanker Lutz
Brandon Trost	Brick's Boyfriend,Smoking Guard
Robert Douglas Washington	Cashier
Chris Kittinger	Man in Tuxedo
Marielle Heller	Clocky
Derek Mears	Large Henchman
John Gibson	Dealer
Vic Browder	Control Room Guard
Russ Dillen	Commander
Michael David Aragon	Machine Room Guard,Machine Room Guard
Greg Alan Williams	Minister
Chad Brummett	Military Officer
Sandra Wood	Nude Model,Bartender
Mark Dimitrijevic	Man in Café
Amare Stoudemire	Himself
Brian Petsos	Dude
Alan D'Antoni	Russian Guard
Cajardo Lindsey	Railroad Guard #1
Laurence Chavez	Railroad Guard #2/Compound Guard #2
Matt Christmas	Railroad Guard #3
Edward Duran	Compound Guard #1
Tomas Sanchez	Compound Guard #3
Bobby Burns	Compound Guard #4
Bill Leaman	Compound Guard #5
Willie Weber	Compound Guard #6
Alan Tafoya	Charging Guard
Michelle Waterson	Club Babe #1
Milos Milicevic	KFBR392 Guy
Christina Rouner	News Anchor
Eugene Nosoff	Russian Radio Voice
Val	Actor
Dalip Singh	Tug Phelps
Paul Wight	Brick Hughes
Jimmy G. Giesler	Janitor
Great Khali	Tug Phelps
Michael Owen	Railroad Bodyguard
Matthew Compton	Composer

Technical Credits

Jorma Taccone

John Solomon

Will Forte

Jorma Taccone	Director,Screenwriter
John Solomon	Screenwriter
Will Forte	Screenwriter
Lorne Michaels	Producer
John Goldwyn	Producer
Ryan Kavanaugh	Executive Producer
Tucker Tooley	Executive Producer
Akiva Schaffer	Executive Producer
Seth Meyers	Executive Producer
Erin David	Executive Producer
Ron Trost	Special Effects
Sheila Jaffe	Casting
Tomas Sanchez	Stunts
Kathryn Brink	Casting

Editorial Reviews

MacGruber is easily the best movie based on a Saturday Night Live skit in 15 years. But, considering the quality of recent sketch-to-screen projects, that sentence doesn't quite do justice to how funny the movie is. When bad guy Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) steals a nuclear warhead, Col. James Faith (a brilliantly cast Powers Boothe) pays a visit to MacGruber (Will Forte), the legendary soldier and demolitions expert who has devoted himself to peace ever since Cunth killed MacGruber's bride on their wedding day. Driven by revenge, MacGruber heads back into action with former partner Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and young Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) to stop Cunth before he can detonate the weapon. Since MacGruber is nothing more than a spoof of the TV action staple MacGyver, it makes sense that they would follow the story beats of your average Stallone/Norris/Schwarzenegger Reagan-era blockbuster. Director Jorma Taccone's slavish loyalty to the tropes of '80s action films keeps the movie humming along -- by following that well-worn structure, they've got a solid spine to support one outrageous, tasteless gag after another. It's a smart artistic choice that pays off in surprisingly sly ways, especially since many of the jokes are so deliriously dumb. Those who want to see how far Will Forte will take his horny, easily upset, none-too-bright explosives master will not be disappointed -- this is a comedy that earns its R rating early and often. A sequence where MacGruber has sex with Vicki -- and then with the ghost of his deceased wife -- scores the biggest laughs because it deftly recalls similar softcore scenes in movies like Top Gun before shocking us with MacGruber's rather vocal lovemaking style. Sure, not every gag is a home run, but because the filmmakers stick to the action-movie formula the movie never drags. There are moments that misfire, but the whole thing never loses momentum, which is amazing considering Taccone and company are stretching a 30-second joke into a 90-minute movie. MacGruber probably won't achieve the same respect or success as the most beloved SNL adaptations, but odds are pretty good that if they wanted to give this character another spin the result would be much funnier than either Wayne's World 2 or Blues Brothers 2000.