Every Movie Based On A Saturday Night Live Sketch - Ranked From Worst To Best

2. The Blues Brothers

While The Blues Brothers is arguably the crowning achievement of Saturday Night Live sketches as feature-length films, there's no denying that its legacy is a roadkill littered highway of big hopes and terrible execution. Because all of the worst things about SNL feature films took root in The Blues Brothers. This movie began the trend of ripping characters out of the show that had zero backstory and very little to say, then trying to craft at least 90 minutes of actual movie around them. It also threw everything it could at the audience, hoping that something would stick (car chases, silent comedy antics, deadpan drama, and a cavalcade of legendary R&B musicians performing song-and-dance numbers.) So what's the difference between all those other, likeminded SNL films and this Belushi-Aykroyd action comedy? It had Belushi and Aykroyd, for starters. Those two had such a crazy energy and untouchable chemistry that as long as the movie had even the thinnest of premise, there was a good chance it would be a hit. Speaking of which, it shouldn't be overlooked that the two most successful movies in this list feature not one, but two lead characters. Poor Stuart Smalley had to shoulder the whole movie by himself. The tag-team effort always seems to fare better...