Given that the entire joke of the long-running "MacGruber" sketch series on SNL is that the titular hero has only 30 seconds to save the world-- and doesn't do it-- it seemed incredibly, incredibly doubtful that a feature-length movie about the guy would be anything but an It's Pat!-level embarrassment. And while the film isn't entirely finished, and no critics have actually seen it, there's one voice crying out in the internet wilderness to tell you, hold on... this thing might actually be good.

"MacGruber is the best SNL film since Wayne’s World back in 1992," is just one of many astonishing bits of praise in the test screening review over at The Vertex Blog, where they actually call the movie "amazing." Aparently Will Forte and Kristen Wiig is great, Ryan Phillippe is "excellent" and Val Kilmer isn't embarrassing, and even a plot about a supervillian named Dieter Von Cunth actually works.

I mean, I guess it's possible that this can be true-- Forte is a talented comedian, and they had to add so much material to make a real movie out of MacGruber that they may have come up with a real movie in the process. Do you guys think this is enough to become cautiously optimistic about yet another SNL movie? Or will the Rotten Tomatoes score be the only judgment you'll trust?