MacGruber (film)
MacGruber is a 2010 American action comedy film based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, itself a parody of actionadventure television series MacGyver. Jorma Taccone of the comedy trio The Lonely Island directed the film, which stars Will Forte in the title role Kristen Wiig as his love interestpartner, Vicki St. Elmo Ryan Phillippe as Dixon Piper, a young lieutenant who becomes part of MacGrubers team Maya Rudolph as MacGrubers dead wife, Casey and Val Kilmer as the villain, Dieter von Cunth.
In eastern Siberias Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Dieter Von Cunth and his men take control of the X5 missile, which is a nuclear warhead. On the other side of the world Col. Jim Faith and Lt. Dixon Piper are searching for former Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger MacGruber in Ecuador. The two men find MacGruber meditating in a chapel, and try to convince him to return to the United States in an effort to retrieve the warhead. MacGruber refuses later that night, MacGruber explodes into a fit of rage after a flashback where Cunth killed his fiance, Casey Fitzpatrick, at their wedding he then accepts the Colonels offer.After arriving at The Pentagon and having a heated conversation with Faith and Piper, MacGruber decides he will form his own team to pursue Cunth, declining the offer to build a team around Piper. MacGruber successfully recruits all but his longtime friend Vicki St. Elmo and Brick Hughes MacGruber initially recruits Hughes, but upon discovering Brick is gay, crosses his name off his list. MacGruber and his team meet Faith and Piper on a tarmac. Upon being asked where his team is, MacGruber responds that they are in the van along with his homemade C4 explosives. The van promptly explodes, killing the team. MacGruber is distraught over the loss of the team and is promptly removed from the Cunth case. In a oneonone conversation with Piper, MacGruber convinces him to form a new team. Vicki also arrives, completing MacGrubers team. ........
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