Top 10 Movies Based on SNL Sketches
In Saturday Night Live, a sketch can boost in popularity, which can even lead to a feature film based on it. However, most of them are box office and critical failures, but a few did well as you can see them on the top!
This movie has a crazy story, featuring paroled convict Jake and his blood brother Elwood, who set out on "a mission from God" to save the Roman Catholic orphanage they were raised in from being sold at auction. To do so, they must reunite their R&B band and organize a performance to earn the five thousand dollars needed to pay the orphanage's property tax bill. They are targeted by a homicidal "mystery woman," Neo-Nazis, and a country and western band, while being pursued by the police.
This was a more classic SNL movie, being released in 1980, and was a box office success. It featured R&B, soul, and blues artists such as James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles. It has a cult following and is the only one selected by the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", which remains the only SNL film to do so in 2020.
This movie is about two dudes who host a public-access television cable show. It turned Mike Myers into a movie star, who would soon create the Austin Powers series and star in the Shrek franchise. Like The Blues Brothers, it has a cult following. So, this movie is "awesome".
Not as great as the original, but it's hard to dislike Wayne and Garth. This and Blues Brothers 2000 remain the only SNL sequels.
This movie, starring Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell, is not a "superstar". The story follows Mary Katherine trying to find her place in her Roman Catholic private school. Sounds a bit similar to The Blues Brothers, doesn't it?
Movie based on radio host and sex therapy expert Leon Phelps.
Adam Sandler's first film breakout role came because he was little known before SNL and his first two films. I mean, this is based on those SNL sketches that aired in the 1970s, which kinda worked in the 1990s.
It is based on the SNL sketch that parodied the 1980s action-adventure TV series MacGyver. Jorma Taccone of the comedy trio The Lonely Island directed the film.
This has to really hit hard on Hollywood's balls. All the Roxbury Guys do is bob their heads to Haddaway's hit song "What Is Love" while being comically rejected by women at various clubs.
Let's face it, this movie does not "save Stuart's family". Al Franken (Stuart Smalley) attempts to save both his deeply troubled family and his low-rated public-access television show, but critical reviews just don't help it.
