Hand me that bobby pin. Give me the rubber band, and do you have any gum? I'm trying to craft a weapon to aim at the genius(es) who greenlighted a feature length movie based on Will Forte's admittedly funny MacGruber sketches on Saturday Night Live.

Funny, yes. But only in 60-second, late-night doses or a Super Bowl commercial for Pepsi. For some reason Haddaway's What Is Love? from A Night at the Roxbury keeps ringing in my ears.

Hollywood Reporter says Forte and fellow SNL comedian Kristen Wiig will reprise their roles as MacGruber -- the less intrepid son of MacGyver, the 1980s TV action hero -- and his harried assistant handing him the junk used to manufacture whatever he requires to escape or trap a villain. The examples of MacGruber posted are among the first episodes broadcast, with Molly Shannon and Maya Rudolph sharing Wiig's duties. (Sorry for the commercial Hulu.com attaches.)

Ryan Phillippe is negotiating to play an Army officer teaming with MacGruber to stop a nuclear terrorist. Val Kilmer is angling to play the bad guy. Want another bad sign? The director will be Jorma Taccone, who did the job on SNL but whose only big-screen credits are co-writing Extreme Movie and playing Chaka in this summer's lousy Land of the Lost update.