I thought the Saturday Night Live movie thing died in the late 90's. Well, it should have. The last of those movies were garbage, as is the latest regurgitated hairball from the SNL stable:
Macgruber. A half-assed attempt to rip off the 80's TV show,
McGyver, this is nothing more than a sad collection of F-bombs, bad penis jokes and stupid (and I mean REALLY stupid) sexual innuendo. Every target that the story aims for misses horribly, and manages to offend even my jaded sensibilities. It honestly looks like the filmmakers were writing for an audience of twelve year old boys whose parents would never let them see this because of the language and sex, but those same boys just want to see it BECAUSE of those jokes. Trust me, that last statement makes perfect sense. This was just awful almost to its core.
I said almost there for a reason. The ONLY redeeming quality of this movie was the performance of Val Kilmer. I always thought this guy was a better comedic actor than anything else (watch
Top Secret or
Real Genius if you don't believe me), and he just looks like he's having a hell of a time being the heavy: Dieter Von Cunth. Everyone else just looks like they're going through the motions on the SNL sets trying for the instant laughs. For some reason, Ryan Phillipe and Powers Booth got roped into this too......just can't figure out how or why.
Miss this, it sucked. 1.25/10
See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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