This week’s home video releases are impressive on all counts, but you won’t find yourself breaking the bank to enjoy it all. Most of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases are worth a watch, but a cheap rental should suffice.

Most of the releases this week feature all-star casts in either parody or serious form and showcase Hollywood’s best. The only film that doesn’t seem to belong this week is Killers, which comes off as a lazy version of Knight and Day.

Either way, this week’s releases are a step up from the other batches in recent months. Next week bodes well for September’s home video schedule, but with some superb classics this week, it will be hard to top.

The following movies can be found on DVD and Blu-ray.

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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: Sept. 7, 2010

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Screen Rant’s Kofi Outlaw reviews MacGruber

I went into MacGruber with low expectations. After all, movies adapted from SNL sketches have largely been agonizing experiences ever since the days of Wayne’s World passed us by. And at this point, The Blues Brothers seems like a gift from God, rather than a testament to the comedic potential of good SNL turned movie.

So it’s understandable why many people would turn their noses up at the notion that a Saturday Night Live sketch about a MacGyver knock-off, who constantly blows himself up, could be adapted into a feature-length action/comedy. Thankfully for us all, the filmmakers abandon the constrictive premise of the MacGruber SNL sketch and dive headfirst into some wonderfully demented comedic territory.

The “plot” of MacGruber is lifted straight out of ...

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This week I attended the press junket for Universal’s movie adaptation of the SNL sketch MacGruber and had a chance to talk with stars Will Forte, Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe, along with SNL writers Jorma Taccone and John Solomon who directed and co-wrote the film, respectively.

The conversation was fast and funny, with topics ranging from the unlikely journey of MacGruber from sketch to feature film, the late 80s/early 90s action flicks which inspired the movie, and the soon-to-be-infamous “celery scene.”

To be specific, I had a chance to speak with stars Will Forte (who also co-wrote the film), Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe, and director Jorma Taccone; somehow we made it through the entire set of interviews without co-writer John Solomon saying a word. Maybe he said half a word, but if so, it was too soft ...

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Rogue Pictures has released a set of five MacGruber clips to whet your appetite for the Saturday Night Live inspired-comedy starring Will Forte. If you’re still skeptical, as many of us were, maybe the clips will help sate your worries.

The plot isn’t particularly robust (though early reviews credit the film’s stupidity as a well-excuted maneuver) following Ex-special operative MacGruber who is “called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who’s in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C.”

In addition to Forte, MacGruber stars Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, and Val Kilmer.

Check out the video clips after the jump, courtesy of Collider: