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The groundbreaking variety series 'Saturday Night Live' recently celebrated 50 years on the air.
The iconic TV series has launched the careers of countless movie and TV stars over the years including Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristin Wiig, and Kate McKinnon.
The series has also spawned several popular movies based on sketches and characters from the show including 'The Blues Brothers', 'Wayne's World' and 'MacGruber'.
In honor of 'SNL's 50th anniversary season, Moviefone is counting down and ranking every 'Saturday Night Live' movie ever made.
For this list, we are only including movies based on sketches or characters that originated on 'SNL', so we will not be including 'Tommy Boy', 'Black Sheep', or any of Adam Sandler's early films. We will also not be including director Jason Reitman's recent biopic 'Saturday Night'.
Let's begin!
11. 'It's Pat' (1994)
Pat Riley (Julia Sweeney), an obnoxious busybody of indeterminable sex, meets and falls in love with Chris, a sensitive, caring person also of indeterminable sex. Their relationship suffers because Pat's a lout, and cannot decide on a direction for their life. Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor Kyle falls further and further into obsession with Pat, fascinated by their indeterminate sexuality.
10. 'Stuart Saves His Family' (1995)
A self-help advocate (Al Franken) struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
9. 'Blues Brothers 2000' (1998)
Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.
8. 'The Ladies Man' (2000)
7. 'A Night at the Roxbury' (1998)
Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug (Chris Kattan) and Steve Butabi (Will Ferrell) still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with Richard Grieco gets them inside the swank Roxbury club. Mistaken for high rollers, they meet their dream women, Vivica (Gigi Rice) and Cambi (Elisa Donovan), and resolve to open a club of their own.
6. 'Superstar' (1999)
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher (Molly Shannon), an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.
5. 'Coneheads' (1993)
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymatt (Jane Curtain) don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
4. 'Wayne's World 2' (1993)
A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer (Christopher Walken) is putting the moves on his girlfriend, Cassandra (Tia Carrere), while Garth handles the advances of mega-babe Honey Hornee (Kim Basinger).
3. 'MacGruber' (2021)
After rotting in prison for over a decade, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber (Will Forte) is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane). With the entire world in the crosshairs, MacGruber must reassemble his old team in order to defeat the forces of evil.
2. 'Wayne's World' (1992)
1. 'The Blues Brothers' (1980)
Jake Blues (John Belushi), just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) were raised.
