The history of Saturday Night Live is riddled with both excellent characters, bits, settings, and jokes, and some that don't quite hit the mark. The films are just the same, from Ghostbusters to The Love Guru, the entire history of the show has been hit or miss, despite the fact that the show has a nearly godlike status in the mind of the average television viewer.
That's not to say they haven't put out some legendary comedy films occasionally, but there are definitely a good few that lost millions or were universally panned, so we'll be exploring some of those today.
10 It's Pat: The Movie
Oh boy, here we are, starting with the big one. It's Pat: The Movie is one of the most notorious examples of an SNL alum starring in an absolutely trash movie.
The film stars Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, and Kathy Griffin, and the title character was created by Julia Sweeney, who plays the titular Pat. The movie was so unfunny because there's no way the character could carry an entire movie. It has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and was pulled right after its opening weekend.
9 Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
The only good thing that any critic had to say about this movie anywhere was that it was at least maybe slightly better than Joe Dirt. The release of the movie pretty much started a universal hatred for David Spade, who had been pretty successful when starring alongside Chris Farley in a few films.
The movie is pretty much just an excuse for David Spade and the writers of the film to make fun of child stars who became washed up, including people like Gary Coleman who featured in the film.
8 Brother Nature
Brother Nature features a good few SNL alums, and none of them do a particularly great job in the film. Most of the movie most heavily features Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam, who play Roger and Todd, who have a pretty generic relationship.
Roger is going for a nice time at the lake with the woman he hopes to propose to when he gets there, only for Bobby Moynihan's character Todd to be super overbearing about their friendship, perhaps threatening to ruin his plans. The whole issue, as happens with SNL films, is that Todd is an extremely annoying character to watch.
7 The Love Guru
Yet another absolutely awful film that's made its unfortunate appearance, is The Love Guru. The film is so bad for a multitude of reasons, and in a magnitude that caused Mike Meyers to swear off appearing in live-action films since it was released.
Among the reasons that the film suffers so badly is the fact that Mike Meyers plays a pretty culturally insensitive character, and the writing is so bad that not even the celebrity guest stars, including Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, are able to salvage the trainwreck.
6 The Master Of Disguise
The Master Of Disguise makes absolutely no illusions about the fact that it was intended purely to be a vehicle for Dana Carvey's famous impressions. Unfortunately for the man we probably all know best from an actually good SNL film, (Wayne's World) it really doesn't pan out.
The plot of the movie isn't only particularly thin, but it also doesn't really make any sense. The fact that our protagonist is named Pistachio Disguisey should clue anyone in on just how terribly absurd the entire film is.
5 Meet Dave
Eddie Murphy might have absolutely killed it on the stand-up circuit back in the day, but really struggled with his transition to film for a number of reasons.
Perhaps, going back to Murphy's standup, it becomes pretty obvious that the crass nature of his jokes can't sustain an entire 80-minute comedy film, but that didn't stop him from making multiple of these, such as The Nutty Professor or Norbit. The film was so bad that Eddie Murphy skipped the premiere, which he claimed definitely wasn't because it was terrible.
4 Stuart Saves His Family
Stuart Saves His Family is a mess of a film, despite the fact that the notoriously vitriolic Siskel and Ebert both gave the film a thumbs-up rating, saying that it was braver than a lot of more serious films. The biggest issue with the film is how ridiculously tonally inconsistent it is.
It's presented as a comedy, but the plot of the movie centers around a man in a 12-step program who constantly makes terrible, self-destructive decisions whenever various calamities end up befalling his family. The end product is a complete bummer, dressed up as a rip-roaring comedy.
3 The Ladies Man
The Ladies Man is actually a really serious loss for the entirety of SNL films since the production of them ended for about ten years after the massive disaster that this film caused at the box office. Once again, a character that's really funny for about 3 minutes during a sketch doesn't hold up for an entire hour-and-a-half runtime.
The film consists of Leon, the titular ladies man, being fired from his job as a radio host, and then going on a Dumb And Dumber-like hunt for a woman he doesn't know the name of.
2 A Night At The Roxbury
A Night At The Roxbury is probably at least halfway familiar to anyone familiar with Will Ferrell's work, or people who are familiar with SNL lore. The movie follows two Armenian-American club kids on their adventures at various nightclubs, mainly the titular Roxbury.
For whatever reason, people weren't satisfied with an entire film that had a high point of watching Ferrell and Chris Kattan bob their heads while listening to Haddaway's club hit "What Is Love?". The film has an 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
1 Blues Brothers 2000
This film in particular is very sad, mostly due to the fact that it seems to exist more like a eulogy to people who died that were involved in the original film than anything that's able to stand on its own.
John Landis and Dan Akroyd are leftover from the first film, but it's actually pretty depressing to see that John Belushi was replaced by John Candy for the film. Aside from all of the various "This Film Is Dedicated To ____" moments in the film and the credits, it's just nowhere near the original in terms of quality.
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