Wish I Wrote That: The ‘MacGruber’ edition

Wish I Wrote That: The ‘MacGruber’ edition

A one-joke “Saturday Night Live” skit based on a television series that ended in 1992 has been turned into a no-joke movie that ended 99 painful minutes after it began. – Movie Mom

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YeffNo Gravatar May 22, 2010 at 11:54 pm

Of all of the parody movies, the only ones that seemed to get it right were the Brady Bunch movies. The family wasn’t lampooned, just stuck in the 70s. When all was said and done their family values won out.

I enjoyed catching all of the references to the original series while also enjoying the new actors playing the characters.

The movies paid homage and for my childhoods sake I was grateful.

OpusNo Gravatar May 22, 2010 at 11:57 pm

She was much more charitable to the movie than me. I found the film not just unfunny but disturbing and I have a high threshhold for bad taste and weird jokes but this film crossed the line several times. I felt like I needed a shower after watching it.
No one in the theater laughed the entire movie, but there were several collective “eewwwwww” ’s.
There was one person in my particular showing that walked out of the film.
A very, very nasty film.

JohnFNWayneNo Gravatar May 23, 2010 at 12:22 am

Anyone who believes current-era SNL is worthy of mining film franchises is on crack.

cftotoNo Gravatar May 23, 2010 at 3:35 am

Thanks for the first person report, Opus. Am traveling this weekend otherwise I would have caught up with the film and posted a review (It was not screened for critics in the traditional sense). The film is doing badly so far, and if other audiences react in a similar fashion to your crowd, it should do even worse in weekend #2.

And yeah, the Brady Bunch films really nailed it — they honored the source material and gave it a modern spin. Let’s put the sweet and square Brady Bunch in today’s world. Smart.

DavidPMillerNo Gravatar May 23, 2010 at 3:49 am

Jason Hawes from Ghost Hunters (via Twitter) went and saw it today and was also repulsed or at least bored by it. Sounds like we got us a big Rotten Tomato.

DagnabbittNo Gravatar May 25, 2010 at 11:23 pm

the track record on Michaels’ mining of SNL skit is so poor that it again raises the question for me: how do these films get green-lit and distributed widely?

fwiw, this is the first SNL skit adaptation in a while, so perhaps this poor performance will return the idea to dormancy again

D.

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