Making a movie out of Macgruber seemed like a dumb idea to me — I always thought the sketch was heavy on the cute gimmick and light on the comedy.  But when they hired The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone to direct and made it a hard-R rating with Val Kilmer playing a villain named Dieter Von Cunth, suddenly it was interesting.  It premiered at SXSW, and the reviews are just now starting to trickle in like pee on the end of my wiener when I don’t shake it off long enough:

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This is the official first trailer for Macgruber, which is a bit of a letdown after we’ve already seen the much more promising red-band trailer from a few days ago.  Trying to watch the PG trailer for an R-rated comedy after you’ve already seen the red-band version is like a hooker you paid to take a dump on your coffee table that wants to show you how well she can cuddle.  Go away, crazy lady, that’s what the stuffed animals are for.

Fun fact: Val Kilmer loved the ponytail look because it kept him from getting guacamole in his hair.

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I’ll be honest, I thought making a movie out of the MacGruber sketches was a colossally stupid idea at first.  But let one of the Lonely Island guys direct, throw in fat Val Kilmer as a villain named “Dieter von Cunth”, and make it a hard-R rating, suddenly I’m cautiously optimistic.  I also love Kristen Wiig whenever she’s not playing Gilly or the Target lady.  I guess what I’m saying is that the MacGruber movie is like an adorable puppy with a bow on it.  I’m ready to let it into my heart, but if it can’t be potty trained, I’m selling it to the Vietnamese restaurant.  …What?  What’d  I say?  Was it the puppy thing?

I’ll post an embed as soon as it’s up, but for now you have to watch the trailer here. Update: Including the Trailer Addict version after the jump.

Cautious optimism is kind of like walking around your apartment with a boner.  You’re hoping you’ll get to use it, but until then, any sudden movement will make you flinch like a mother.

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(You make me want to vote Republican)

The delightfully pretty and funny Kristen Wiig stars in this trailer for One Night Only, which is unfortunately the hipsteriest movie that ever hipstered.

It’s produced by Last Pictures, a New York-based company that usually specializes in short films, and is described as “a romantic drama about two couples shifting sexual dynamics over one night in a folk music bar.”

Ooof.  Man, I want to knock this trailer off its stupid fixed gear bicycle so bad, but chances are its father is a lawyer.  The entire trailer consists of two context-free throwaway conversations, followed by a credits montage that takes up three-fourths of the trailer, set to a song by Bob Dylan’s unemployed nephew.

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In this latest promo clip from Mike Judge’s Extract, Judge goes back to the well for the characters that made him famous, Beavis and Butthead.  I was about Beavis and Butthead’s age when Beavis and Butthead came out, so I’m probably guilty of the same kind of romantic nostalgia I make fun of sci-fi fans for all the time when I say this, but five seconds in I was thinking, “Oh man, remember Beavis and Butthead?  Beavis and Butthead were awesome.”  Anyway, nostalgia aside (I hope), props (or kudos, or another word that doesn’t sound as lame as props or kudos) to Mike Judge for being able to skip to the good parts of his own career.  This wouldn’t have been nearly as funny or likable if he’d used King of the Hill.  God that show sucked.  Though I think it taught us all the valuable lesson that fat pussies don’t make good lead characters. A lot of people will try bring up Fat Pussy Hunter 7 as a counter argument, but in that case I would argue it was more the mcguffin.

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