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17 out of 20 people found the following review useful:
surprisingly mean-spirited and unfunny, 7 November 2005

Author: ithearod

I actually liked the sketch "Pat" on SNL. It was a fresh idea - honestly, how many other "andrognenous character-sketch" routines can you name? It had its limitations, and it sure as hell could have been pushed past the "Pat almost reveals his/her gender but then doesn't" joke that seems to have been the limit of its humor.

So when there was a movie, I thought, "Hey, they're finally going to push the character beyond the one-joke limit. I like Pat, sure, I'll like the movie!" Well, I was stunned at how ineptly and poorly executed the whole thing was. The Pat character is immediately portrayed as boorish, intrusive, insensitive, and a host of other undesirable characteristics. Who decided this is what Pat was about? Who thought this would be funny? And how does this relate to the SNL character, anyway? I see no resemblance at all.

Even Dave Foley, whom I love and who is well-known for his excellence at portraying long-suffering comic characters, cannot soften the unrelenting ugliness that Pat exudes. In addition, I really think they took the low road with the "Chris" character. Of all the androgynous names they could have chosen (Terry, Bobby, Sam, the list is long), "Chris" is so boring! And the style of androgyny that was chosen, "70's-esque flower child", complete with page-boy haircut, while certainly complimenting Pat's dowdiness, was just one more joke with a very short lifespan.

By the time you finally realize the ugly boorishness that Pat is all about is not going to be a short-lived bit, but is instead the main (and only) joke, and that you will get no reprieve at all, ever, through the entire film, it will be too late. You will have suffered through the whole film, with very few laughs, and entirely missed out on a "naive-but-loveable-doofus" version of Pat, that you might have expected to get.

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16 out of 26 people found the following review useful:
About As Bad As It Gets., 2 July 2002
Author: tfrizzell from United States

Mercy what an awful excuse for a film. Sexless (meaning impossible to tell whether male or female) Pat (Julia Sweeney) wants to get married to another equally sexless person in this amazingly poor motion picture that was just a ploy by those morons at Saturday Night Live to make a few quick bucks. They made very few bucks as the movie-going public saw through this mess before they ever set foot into a theater. Tasteless and worthless. Turkey (0 stars out of 5).

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
It's really bad.....really really bad, 24 August 1999

Author: hugh jass from santa monica, Ca

Do yourself a favor by not watching this awful movie. In my lifetime, I don't think there will be a movie as bad as this one. It has got to be the most unfunny, retarded movie ever made. It's that stupid snl skit that was not funny, but not they go and extend the time???? Can you imagine if they made a movie about the spartan cheerleader? Please don't watch any snl movies, so they get the message and stop making stupid movies.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
A joke drawn out to feature length with the world's most annoying main character., 21 November 2011

Author: Anders Twetman

#95 on IMDBs bottom 100 films was surprisingly bad, with #94 It's Pat we are back on track with bad movies. I understand that this is based on an SNL skit, but since I have never seen SNL in my entire life, I have to base my judgment on the film alone. I HATE Pat! He/she is so ungodly annoying, I cannot fathom how anyone would think it would be a good idea to make a film about him/her. The whiny voice, the obnoxious manner, the ugly look, all of it is just extremely annoying, every single minute of screen time without Pat is like is like a precious gift from the Gods themselves, that's how loathsome i think Pat is.

Not only have the film makers made a film about the most intrusively obnoxious character in the world, they have also based the whole plot (using the word plots actually gives the film more credit than it deserves) on one single joke. It feels like they have taken a skit (that wasn't funny to begin with as far as I can tell) and drawn it out to feature length. I HATE Pat and I HATE this movie!

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Somewhat fascinating as a time capsule., 9 November 2011

Author: Crazy_Gibberish from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

It's Pat is one of those movies whose very existence is baffling today. Well, it was obviously intended to cash in on the success of the Wayne's World sequel the year before it came out, but apart from that it has absolutely no substance. I don't think I can think of another equally cynical, lazy cash in.

Sweeney just doesn't seem to care. If anything, it feels like she was actively trying to shoot the project in the foot. Why else would she choose to make Pat so unlikable and repellent? A project like this could only succeed if we care about Pat and want to see him/her save the day. Instead Pat is constantly complaining, putting people down and gurgling like a sick cat.

I had to use "him/her", a phrase now considered offensive given the rise of transgender awareness, because It's Pat's only "joke" is predicated upon Pat's gender ambiguity. The entire time I was watching it I thought "man, imagine the balls it would take to release this today?" At the time Pat first appeared on SNL in the late 80's and early 90's, I thought it was just hacky, lame and instantly tiresome. But watching the feature length version today, that one-note joke now feels downright mean spirited and cruel.

And all in the service of 1 laugh. Just one, but man it's a gut buster. Pat's creepy neighbor develops a sexual fascination with Pat that one would normally find in a Todd Solondz film. Not surprising given the script treatment by Tarantino. But at one point Pat comes over and his pervert neighbor is caught still wearing a Pat wig and glasses. It was so much funnier than anything that came before or after, I completely lost it for five minutes straight.

This doesn't redeem the film of course. It's a black hole for laughs that only exists now as a testament to what things were like immediately before the time of re-evaluating gender normative.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
If you're going to watch one bad movie this year...., 17 May 2003
Author: PsYcHoPaTh_X from Camp Crystal Lake

You might as well skip this one, as it's not worth your time. If I wanted to watch a sexless person's everyday life, I'd revisit my sixth grade boys P.E. teacher. No, my friends, this is a BAD film. Not bad like "Hey! They forgot the ketchup!" bad, more like "Hey! There's pube hair on my hamburger!" bad.

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4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
possibly the worst movie I have ever seen., 14 July 2001

Author: bingo2 from vancouver canada

No it is the worst movie I have ever seen. I do not know why any television station would even broadcast this drivel. You could use it as a form of torture for those you hate or really really despise. In my opinion all copies should be pulled from circulation and buried in a very deep pit, but then that would be pollutting the earth. I would have given it a MINUS rating, but the poll doesnt go that low.

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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Bad, but not the worst movie ever, 4 January 2008

Author: Jsimpson5 from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Being a fan of SNL and bad movies is an odd mixture of things that I enjoy. Being a fan of older SNL skits, one that always gave me a good laugh was Pat. In order to ride the wave of success that the skit had a movie was made called It's Pat, and while it's not the best film around, it's currently not the worst either.

The skit Pat is about a androgynous person called Pat, who no body is able to tell if Pat is a male or female. Pat would say phrases that would be said specifically by either sex, but would then be canceled out by having Pat say something that would confuse the person further. An example of this would be Sorry if I'm a little grumpy, I have really bad cramps... I rode my bike over here, and my calf muscles are KILLING me!" I will now talk about the film itself. The film starts with the birth of Pat but just like the show we don't know if Pat is a male or female. The entire plot of the film deals with this entire though, "Is Pat a man or a woman" Some of the dialog is just stupid and at times pointless. While the whole plot goes on, another man tries to find out what is Pat's sex because he is obsessed with Pat.

The acting is at times awful, but it's still funny to watch at times. This isn't the best film around, but it's not the worst.

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6 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
The worst movie ever, 19 January 2007

Author: robertseege from Finland

I've seen a lot of movies, many good and many bad ones. But trust me on this; this is by far the worst. There is nothing positive I can mention about this movie. Why? Well I'll tell you why; The script is something that should have been thrown in trash, the acting is awful, the jokes are not even a bit funny and the characters are utterly annoying. I would understand if this movie would be a film for kids but with all of the "undeterminable sex" stuff, it's clearly not just for kids. A certain Quentin Tarantino helped out with the script(according to the trivia) and he will be relieved that he chose to be uncredited. It's hard for me to even imagine what types of idiots would do a movie like this or even worse find it funny. This is as I mentioned earlier the worst movie I've ever watched and therefore I can't recommend it to anyone. In my opinion this should occupy the no. 1 spot in the bottom 100. It's so bad that if you for instance showed it to some monkeys at a zoo, even they would understand how bad this movie actually is and would destroy the TV set after the first five minutes.

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7 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Not even Dave Foley can save this..., 12 March 2006

Author: rcs914 from Tucson

I loved Kids in the Hall, and so one day when this stinker of a movie was on HBO I watched it, thinking that it couldn't be all bad, if Dave Foley was in it. I was truly wrong. That's 80 or so minutes that I can never have back. It's not just that the movie is bad, it's that the main character, Pat, is completely unlikeable. It behaves like a complete obnoxious jerk, oblivious of the feelings of others. I spent the whole time just hating the character.

The only reason I gave this 2 stars instead of 1 is for the setting of Pat's apartment. I liked the almost googie style architecture, and the retro interior decorating. But other than that, I wouldn't recommend this movie for any reason, not even to see Dave in yet another dress or two.

If you really want to watch an SNL spin off, check out "Stuart Saves His Family" which is actually quite good.

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