How Does MacGruber Compare To Past Saturday Night Live Films?
Let’s play Rank the “Saturday Night Live” Movies! We’ll go first. “The Blues Brothers” did it first and, arguably, best. “Wayne’s World” has got to be up there, and for some strange reason, we have a soft spot for “Coneheads.” At the other end of our highly subjective spectrum, we’ve got “It’s Pat,” “The Ladies Man” and “Blues Brothers 2000” duking it out for last place. Where might Will Forte’s “MacGruber” fall? The early buzz on this adaptation of a sketch about a wildly incompetent action hero is largely positive. Forte himself isn’t bothered by the comparisons to “SNL” flicks past. If you ask him, the varying reception of those films is about on par with the way decades’ worth of movies have been embraced — or rejected — by the public. “The ‘SNL’ track record is about the same as the movies-in-general track record,” he told MTV News. “There are a lot of crappy movies out there and a lot of great movies. Sure, there has been some ‘SNL’-based movies that have sucked; there have been
