Eye Candy #454 - "MacGruber"

MacGruber:   It’s uncommon to find a film that wears the wafer-thin nature of its plot proudly on its sleeve, but for those that doubt, I give you Exhibit A - “MacGruber”.  A “MacGyver” parody some 20 years too late, Will Forte is MacGruber, former SEAL, Green Beret, and Special Forces called out of a ten year retirement to stop the man who murdered his wife, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer) after Von Cunth steals a nuclear missile.  Hilarity is supposed to ensue.  An SNL skit blown up for the big screen, the jokes more often than not fall flat, the dialogue is dopey and crude as all-get-out,  and it’s all dragged out longer than it deserves to almost 100 minutes, backed by a rocking 80‘s pop-rock score (even Eddie Money!).   The supporting cast includes a handful of WWE wrestlers, almost all of whom acquit themselves better in the all-too-brief screen time they share.  The always lovely Kristen Wiig is here, too, and the script gives her some funny bits but not enough to carry the film.  But MacGruber is the real problem with “MacGruber” - he’s just not that appealing of a character.  He’s a macho, mean-spirited idiot that lacks any real charm.   I had high-ish hopes for “MacGruber” and I was soundly disappointed.  Woodchuck sez, “Meh.”