Movies like Magruber that are based on Saturday Night Live sketches usually fall flat at the box office. Its hard to stretch one little sketch into a full length film obviously. Magruber is not a film for the sensitive. It is very vulgar and its hero is more annoying then anything else. Will Forte just doesn’t chew the scenery, he grinds it into baby food! Val Kilmer pretty much does the same as the bad guy. What made me like this film isn’t its star, but Kristen Wiig as Vicki and Ryan Phillippe as Lt. Piper. They both give great comic performances in Magruber. Wiig has a howlingly funny moment in the coffee shop while shes wearing a wire. Actually the real hero of the film is Piper, if it hadn’t been for him Magruber would have been dead several times over. In addition, Powers Boothe gives a great performance as Magruber’s frustrated commanding officer. I wanted to mention that I learned something watching this film, I didn’t know what a double decker was, now I do.
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