
In the Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Eastern Siberia, the criminal Dieter Von Cunth steals a Russian X5 nuclear warhead. Colonel James Faith travels to Rio Bamba, Ecuador, with the efficient Lieutenant Dixon Piper to summon the retired special operative MacGruber to retrieve the X5. MacGruber is considered deceased after the death of his beloved wife Casey by his archenemy Cunth in their wedding. MacGruber teams up with Piper and Vicki St. Elmo and they learn that the evil Cunth inte... (Full plot summary below)
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In the Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Eastern Siberia, the criminal Dieter Von Cunth steals a Russian X5 nuclear warhead. Colonel James Faith travels to Rio Bamba, Ecuador, with the efficient Lieutenant Dixon Piper to summon the retired special operative MacGruber to retrieve the X5. MacGruber is considered deceased after the death of his beloved wife Casey by his archenemy Cunth in their wedding. MacGruber teams up with Piper and Vicki St. Elmo and they learn that the evil Cunth intends to use the warhead to destroy Washington D.C.
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| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfMacGruber actually snaps together quite agreeably thanks to a thunderously filthy screenplay and a game cast, who heroically taffy pull a slender concept to a pleasing consistency of comedic madness. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumChris BumbrayPee-your-pants funny AND a solid action flick to boot! |
| Boston PhoenixBetsy ShermanFrom one of Saturday Night Live's lamest recurring sketches comes one of its funniest spinoffs. |
| Film Journal InternationalEthan AlterMacGruber! Did they really make a movie out of that one-joke "SNL" character? MacGruber! Can a 90-second sketch become a funny feature film? MacGruber! Well, it's no Wayne's World but at least it's not It's Pat. MacGruber! |
| E! OnlinePeter ParasUnfortunately, the film becomes as much of a scattershot joke on the Regan era as it is on MacGruber himself. |
| PremiereJohn DeVoreMacGruber 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. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversHow 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. |
| Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonWhat makes Forte so funny is that he stalks through the flick cocksure and utterly deadpan. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookIt certainly has some laughs. And of course it has explosions. |
| TheLoop21.comKam WilliamsA "sleazy does it" production that looks like it was improvised on the spot with a lack of conviction by a bunch of naughty 12 year-olds desperate for attention. |