It's been a long, long (long, long, long) time since a movie based on a Saturday Night Live (TV) sketch caused anything but severe pain to those who paid their hard-earned bucks hoping against hope that what amused them for a few minutes once in a while on SNL could provide 90 minutes to two hours of laughter in a theater. The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992), Wayne's World 2 (1993) and the vastly underrated Coneheads (1993) aside, we're talking about non-stop clinkers spanning from It's Pat (1994), Stuart Saves His Family (1994) and A Night at the Roxbury (1998) to Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Superstar (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000). Now, after a decade free of SNL movies, longtime producer Lorne Michaels has seen fit to bring -- of all things -- MacGruber (2010) to the big screen. Why do we say "of all things?" Well, the sketches are essentially spoofs of MacGyver (TV), with Will Forte as MacGruber,...
- 5/12/2010
- by ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
- ScreenStar
It's been a long, long (long, long, long) time since a movie based on a Saturday Night Live (TV) sketch caused anything but severe pain to those who paid their hard-earned bucks hoping against hope that what amused them for a few minutes once in a while on SNL could provide 90 minutes to two hours of laughter in a theater. The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992), Wayne's World 2 (1993) and the vastly underrated Coneheads (1993) aside, we're talking about non-stop clinkers spanning from It's Pat (1994), Stuart Saves His Family (1994) and A Night at the Roxbury (1998) to Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Superstar (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000). Now, after a decade free of SNL movies, longtime producer Lorne Michaels has seen fit to bring -- of all things -- MacGruber (2010) to the big screen. Why do we say "of all things?" Well, the sketches are essentially spoofs of MacGyver (TV), with Will Forte as MacGruber,...
- 5/12/2010
- by ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
- ScreenStar
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