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MacGruber

MacGruber is a modern day comedy that is a send up of the McGyver days of the mid 80’s right down to the epilates, high waisted jeans and (ugh) mullet hair. Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels is a producer and SNL regulars Will Forte (MacGruber) and Kristen Wiig (Vicki St. Elmo) are two retired government operatives pressed back into service by the US military to thwart a nuclear threat from the disgruntled evil mastermind Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). Like McGyver, MacGruber shuns firearms in favour of weapons improvised from stuff lying around the house. He has a penchant for tearing out the throat of his adversaries although his toughness is questionable since he usually acts like a little girl at the first sign of trouble. When some of his home brewed C-4 wipes out his hand picked vigilantes he is forced to work with the less than desirable Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe). Juxtaposed against the comic timing of Wiig and Forte Phillipe is a solid straight man (save for one incident involving celery) and a jowlier Kilmer is a respectable foe. The set-ups are not forced and Forte and Wiig can make it work but the humour is either deep in the darkness or deep in the toilet.

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