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MacGruber Red-Band Trailer and New Images

Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Russ Fischer

MacGruber

There have been rumors (sourced from where, exactly, I couldn’t tell you) that MacGruber is a crazy, envelope-pushing action movie. The feature-length adaptation of Will Forte’s Saturday Night Live sketches has a great cast (Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe, Maya Rudolph) and now has a pretty effective red-band trailer to show off most of the players.

It takes a minute for this trailer to kick into gear, but when it hits the date rape joke I start to believe that Forte, co-writer John Solomon and director Jorma Taccone might have been given some leeway to be jerks. (A good thing in comedy.) While some of the jokes that follow are cut close to the SNL mold (and the post-Anchorman mold) I can deal with that. The “I’m like a three wire guy” gag works for me. The film looks great, too. And liberal use of ‘I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News)’ by the Eagles of Death Metal doesn’t hurt.

Click the image below to jump to the official MacGruber site for the age-gated trailer. (Sorry about the lack of embed at the moment.) Below that is the official synopsis and a few images.

Only one American hero has earned the rank of Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger. Just one operative has been awarded 16 purple hearts, 3 Congressional Medals of Honor and 7 presidential medals of bravery. And only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In 2010, Will Forte brings Saturday Night Live’s clueless soldier of fortune to the big screen in the action comedy MacGruber.

In the 10 years since his fiancée was killed, special op MacGruber has sworn off a life of fighting crime with his bare hands. But when he learns that his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that’s been stolen by his sworn enemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), MacGruber figures he’s the only one tough enough for the job.

Assembling an elite team of experts—Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig)—MacGruber will navigate an army of assassins to hunt down Cunth and bring him to justice. His methods may be unorthodox. His crime scenes may get messy. But if you want the world saved right, you call in MacGruber.

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Comments

wittyphrase

I was fully expecting to roll my eyes at this and thankfully Will Forte and Kristin Wiig are the kind of people that don't take themselves too seriously and so this might be funny.

"What the f**** is this? I'm a three wires kinda guy." - delivery of that line was pretty damn spot on.

grendelsdad

I'm not familiar with the SNL skits, but I thought this was funny.

Dan you know me

Yeah comedy is SO low brow. I wipe my ass with it while watching Up In The Air and Mothlight.

GreatBigLion

MACGRUBER!

presto117

i thought it looked pretty friggin hilarious.

Jonathan

Jorma can do no wrong. I fully expect this to be the funniest movie of the year.

TotallyNotNick

I think this is a case of saving the best bits for the actual movie.

okayflint

looks like a good time. Exactly what I would expect from this movie.

Kyle C.

Sure it looks stupid but I still laughed my ass off. I mean how can you go wrong with classic lines such as:

MacGruber:"I just took an upper decker in the upstairs bathroom."

Kristin Wiig: "What's that?"

MacGruber"It's when you take a dump in the tank instead of the bowl, you look beautiful!"

and

Kathryn Wiig: "You can stick it where the sun don't shine!"

Val Kilmer: "Oh yea, where's that?!"

Kathryn Wiig: "Uh, up you butt, up your butt-hole."

Spence_Mgence

I saw a screening of this about 2 months ago and I thought it was hilarious! I went in expecting not to laugh at all and I walked out with my friends laughing my ass off. It is stupid humor, but if you really expect anything else then that says a lot about you. But seriously, this movie was awesome.

Antihero

PS Kristen Wiig

Joseph

Didn't like the poop humour but the bit at the end with all the wires in the nuke made me laugh. Not enough to go see it though.

c. ficare

Yea! Poop humor! Damn man, that stuff must of taken them ages to write! This movie is going to rock so hard!

But seriously, that's about on par with SNL writing/acting these days. The movie will suck.

Andidrone

I'm absolutely down with this movie. I understand why so many people aren't feeling it, but I love Forte and the lonely island. Hot Rod was good, but could have been better.

If i remember correctly, Hot Rod wasn't written by the gang, and i think it suffered because of that.

Admiral Akbar

This will be rad

vegabro

I like SNL and I'll probably like this movie for the same reasons.

The only real reason I can't wait to see this movie is Val Kilmer. Seriously one of the funniest people alive in the world right now.

starscream9289

I can only imagine how many people are gonna confuse this for an actual MacGyver remake.

Antihero

Funny all the people whining about age gate, because I put completely false info and got through just fine.
I thought the trailer was pretty good. I like how the cinematography paints it like a Bay-esue, takes it self too seriously action movie.
I also like how everyone but Macgruber play it serious, to his complete ineptitude.The part about the wires was genuinely very funny.

Mackey Sasser

So many haters on /Film (rolls eyes for 40 minutes). This trailer was pretty good. Def going to see this when it comes out.

Joseph

You aren't hating on the haters are you? You know what that means ;)

I think I am going to choose to hate on your hating of others people's hating.

Good day sir :)

Dillon

Caught a test screening a little while ago. It's pretty fantastic. One of if not the funniest movie(s) I saw last year.

Mike Aparicio

Looks funnier than that Steve Carell/Tina Fey movie at least...

super_aj

One chuckle from the trailer, but it looks pretty terrible. Wasn't there some film blogger or journalist who saw a rough cut and said it was the best SNL movie since Blues Brothers? Must have made a few bucks off that statement I'm guessing.

sdsdfqwladennisyyhlekfjqwoijfl

hahaha, why is he always carrying a car radio in those pictures!?!?!

Antihero

He doesn't want anyone to break into his sweet ride and jack his tunes man.

john q

I read the script and it made me laugh at loud quite a bit. If they can execute it as well as they wrote it, it's going to be awesome. Ghost sex!!!

sdsdfqwladennisyyhlekfjqwoijfl

stupid age verification thingy!!! arg!!! whoever decided upon that should be fired 'cause i'm sure it pissed off alot of potential viewers!

but anyway, i found it on YouTube and love it!!!!

big fan of The Lonely Island. Love Macgruber.

Definitely going to watch this

...though I wish others would too. I sense a bit of what heppened to their other movie HOT ROD. amazing, hilarious movie that no one saw..

DrLickies

Shhhh, everything's going to be ok, it's just the trailer for the Macgruber movie dude, no need to get all worked up.

Harmonica

I didn't watch the trailer. Yet.

But I believe this movie will be a giant flop.

JesseWhitehead

For those who don't want to bother with the age gate, this is also on youtube. As for the trailer, damn this thing made me laugh. More than that though, I'm excited by how much it really captures the visual style of a Hollywood action movie. Go Jorma!

JasonJ

Looks like it could actually be pretty good. The whole spy/action hero spoof worked pretty great with Austin Powers. I'll be interested in seeing this when it comes out.
Side Note: Eagles of Death Metal, the band who does the song in the trailer, kick ass. One of the funnest concerts I've ever been to.

Alexander Humphries

As a citizen of the internet it is my duty (nay my responsibility!) to crap all over everything. That said, Will Forte and Kristen Wiig are hilarious and I'll watch anything they do. Suck on that, meh-sayers!

Tercotta

I have never heard of meh-sayers before. It is now one of my favourite words.

SnowDogs

That trailer wasn't worth the hoops I jumped through to watch it. BTW registration database, my real name isn't Mike Hunt.

650, bro

yeah, mine isn't heywood jablome either, but whatever works i guess

CMcCon342

I'm sure it will be terrible, but it got me to laugh a few times.

lorettajohnson

that looks as bad as i thought it would

and doesnt that pic of them with the explosion look like the one from the A Team?

Shawn

Once again, useless age verification limits viewings to USA residents.

I will say it looks stupid then.

Zac Shipley

I'd like to watch this, but the age gate on the trailer rejects my 1979 birthday.

Appartly, at age 30, I'm either too young or perhaps too old to view the trailer.

Sockin

I chuckled at the "The **** is this?! I'm a three wire guy."

But other than that meh.

MonsterKilledThePilot

looks terrible.

funkyp56

Let me be the first to say , this looks like utter shit

Cineprog

I agree with you mate, this looks like utter shit. Val kilmer must have been desprate to even star in this shit.

freemachine

I predict a clean sweep at the Razzies.

Vincent Brulotte

I genuinely thought this movie was going to suck.

I'm now cautious of quality but I won't be surprised if it sucks

Joseph

The fact that they want my name and address to squeeze out a few pennies from the trailer... means it's a fucking certainty that this will be shit.

Devindra Hardawar

Actually, Bacon is correct, studios have been using ID verification for red band trailers for some time now. If you enter false information, the site won't show you the trailer. I'm sure the information is useful to the studios in other ways, but it is first and foremost a verification setup. The more you learn.

Pentarix

Unless there's a Dicklock McGee in Hollywood, born 1936, then I call bullshit.

And the trailer sucked. Hard. And the masses will love it, as they always fall over themselves for this kind of shit. Remember Pineapple Express? LMAO what a piece of crap.

Matt_Bacon

They want your name and address because it's a legal requirement to prove you're over 17, and the only way to do so is by confirming you're age by bringing up your Drivers Licence records... yes, that's how they know you're telling the truth...

Joseph

So you are saying some random film distributor is going to the trouble and expense of looking up people in the driving licence databases (if they even have a drivers licence)... in all the countries they list... just to verify countless random internet people's age so they can watch a flash video!.. for a shitty movie!...... The chances of that are so remote it's bordering on retarded to even suggest it. Sorry buddy. :(

It's the internet, they don't need to prove anything.

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