{"id":3361,"date":"2010-11-16T07:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2010-11-16T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:17:14","slug":"5-second-review-macgruber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"5 Second Review:  Macgruber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Macgruber<\/em> is an adaptation of a recurring <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> sketch character that is loosely a satirical take on <em>Macguyver<\/em>.\u00a0 I say &#8216;loosely&#8217; because beyond adhering to the characteristic of being a <em>resourceful<\/em> crime solver, theres a fair bit of creative license as to how the rest of his character is portrayed.\u00a0 Will Forte plays him as a glib, narcissistic and occasionally misogynistic gun for hire who has serious dellusions of grandeur about his own capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Playing the straight man to Macgruber&#8217;s crazy is Ryan Phillipe who is a pretty good sport about it all things considered.\u00a0 Or perhaps being depantsed and having a carrot inserted into your buttocks is the standard hazing ritual in Hollywood for someone no longer married to an A-list celebrity like Reese Witherspoon.\u00a0 Together they work to stop an evil archnemesis, played by Val Kilmer, from trying to take over the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Macgruber<\/em> is a very funny film, albeit an incredibly crass one.\u00a0 I think part of the fun is the casting which includes performances from Powers Boothe (<em>24<\/em>), an overweight Val Kilmer (the best <em>Batman<\/em>) and a cast of about seven different professional wrestlers.\u00a0 Its short, is almost guaranteed to get a couple of belly laughs out of you and doesn&#8217;t overstay its welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ultimate Tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[309,690,691,692],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-films","tag-5-second-review","tag-macgruber","tag-snl","tag-val-kilmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}