Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
5(21%)
mixed
11(46%)
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What makes Forte so funny is that he stalks through the flick cocksure and utterly deadpan.
75
How the hell can you take an SNL skit that runs 90 seconds and stretch it to a 90-minute feature? Sounds excruciating. But MacGruber breaks the jinx by putting the skit in the context of a 1980s action movie and creating its own brand of explosive lunacy.
75
MacGruber is crude. It’s obscene. The dialogue is puerile and the jokes adolescent. And for the most part, it's hilarious: a bawdy riot drunk on impropriety, which is why the movie works.
65
MacGruber never gathers any momentum. Once in a while a funny line or absurd sight gag will amble into the foreground, only to recede immediately in the rear-view mirror of memory.
63
Forte and company have managed to make crude and lewd dunderheadedness laugh-out-loud funny here and there, and that, I guess, is something of an achievement.
60
Utterly disposable but diverting, MacGruber manages to spin feature-length product out of an idea that few would try expanding beyond a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
60
How much mileage can a comedy get from a single joke? Quite a bit, judging from the guffaws-to-groaners ratio in MacGruber.
60
The meal here is mainly nostalgia, larded with a thick sauce of irony.
60
While this jury-rigged exercise may not be an explosion of laughs, it's no dud, either.
58
It isn’t exactly good, but for audiences in search of nothing more than a few silly chuckles, it should prove good enough.
