MacGruber -- Film Review
9:02 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by John DeFore,
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AUSTIN -- 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. Unlikely to catch fire at the box office, it leaves unanswered the question of whether star Will Forte will be able to break out and carry comedies on his own. Screening here in what director Jorma Taccone said was a not-quite-locked cut, the movie stretches the material about as far as it can go.
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