A movie made from a skit featured on Saturday Night Live, MacGruber (2010) should have stayed on Saturday Night Live. Twenty minute skits of MacGruber (which you can find on YouTube) are great, hilarious even, but a full movie-length hodge-podge of not-always-funny acts was maybe pushing the envelope too far. The story didn’t manage to flow and the links were hard to follow at times.

MacGruber is the newest candidate in the spoof movie category. By the name you can just tell MacGuyver must be featured somewhere in here and you’re right. This is the ultimate MacGuyver spoof movie we all never saw. And it’s a shame because I really used to like and enjoy MacGuyver. Don’t get me wrong though, when it’s funny it’s funny. It’s just that it’s not funny enough, enough of the time.

So the plot of the story runs something like this. MacGruber, who is actually a heavily decorated war veteran, is needed by the United States government to help recover a stolen warhead. He’s the man to see when you need something done right.He is also more than qualified as over the course of his enlistment he gained 3 Congressional medals of honor, 16 Purple Hearts, 7 Presidential medals of Bravery and one arch enemy. An arch enemy, who has returned to bring him out of a self-imposed retirement following the death of his fiancée, where he made an oath to follow peaceful ways, because it is his arch enemy Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) who stole the missile. Cunth plans to launch the missile at the White House and that is all the motivation MacGruber needs to don the super soldier mantle once more.



But he needs friends to help him out this time and he recruits his old buddy Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and a young Academy graduate, Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) to be on his team. The acting on this movie is subpar and Phillippe has a lot to answer for, with a disconnected and angry effort as Piper.  

There follows hijinks and mayhem, dirty crime scenes and unorthodox methods while MacGruber and his little team tackle the bad guy. Speaking of the bad guy, Kilmer plays a brash role.Where his co-stars (dare I say star after this movie?) had the potential to turn their own roles around and perform well, Kilmer stole the scene nearly every time. Between him and Philippe it was hard to really get into this movie. Overall, MacGruber gained a fair and reasonable tiny point for the funny parts.

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