MacGruber (2010)

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Inevitably a film that parodies the worst clichés of Hollywood action movies is unlikely to rise above the quality of its source material, but this is actually a lot of fun - especially if you like the targets of its humor. This gets the emotional immaturity of much Hollywood output along with the inherent yet still-in-the-closet homosexuality of trying too hard to prove that all problems can be resolved through the extensive use of military ordnance.

Val KILMER is especially good as the villain and he really enjoys camping it up. Ryan PHILLIPPE is the necessary corrective to the general mayhem since he maintains a po-face throughout. Not as good as something like Airplane because it never rises enough above its own undergraduate sense of humor.

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