Will SNL never learn that you can't make a movie from a one-joke skit? Here they attempt to sustain their MacGyver TV parody into a full-length feature. Clueless MacGruber (Forte) searches for enemy Dieter Von Cunth (Kilmer) after he steals a nuclear warhead. Typical potty humor ensues. The movie can't decide whether to be an 80s action film or a parody, and only occasionally succeeds at either.
In the pantheon of Saturday Night Live sketches turned feature films, there is the preeminent The Blues Brothers, the admirable Wayne's World, and then the ever-increasing junk pile, a category to which the newest SNL offering MacGruber falls. Not since 2000's pitiful The Ladies Man has ...Read More