An SNL film is a genre unto its own. Featuring silly/low-brow humor inspired by self-contained Saturday Night Live sketches, these movies inflate outlandish concepts and characters that typically work best in short format. The movies have a certain flavor: They're broad and loopy, often high-concept and highlight just enough feel-good emotional stakes to reward the audience for their time. Some are outright successes, such as The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World. Some are cult classics, like Coneheads. Others are… It's Pat.
Despite being an alt-comedy Funny or Die production — far from the mainstream ethos of TV's 45-year-old sketch comedy king —...
Despite being an alt-comedy Funny or Die production — far from the mainstream ethos of TV's 45-year-old sketch comedy king —...
- 9/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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