MacGruber

2010, 15, Directed by Jorma Taccone

Starring: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer

You may have heard of Austin Powers - a crazily successful and hilarious trilogy that spoofed James Bond: the jokes are genuinely funny; the characters charming; the plot enjoyable. None of this applies to the completely irrelevant MacGruber, a send-up of decades-old show McGyver. However, Saturday Night Live regular Will Forte deemed it necessary to introduce the world to his bumbling buffoon of a character who reassembles a team to defeat adversary, ‘hilariously’ named Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer, in a role which drags him a hundred steps backwards from the brilliant Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). There’s not a lot else to say apart from the fact that Kristen Wiig manages to steal the show with an unfunny line… In all seriousness? The whole thing is a mess

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