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

9. Coneheads

It's hard to peg exactly where this Coneheads movie falls in the gamut of the standard SNL feature fare, mostly because this is entirely unlike the rest of the crop. It wasn't exactly timely when it was released in 1993, a full 16 years after it first aired as an SNL sketch, but the metaphors it was using (the Coneheads family a stand-in for all immigrants) were certainly prevalent. Despite every bit of these aliens being weird as hell, they're still just following the standard immigration/integration beats... which almost makes it offensive. But the film's tone is one of goodheartedness, and so it's easy to forgive the occasionally obtuse parallels the script writers try to draw between these pointy-headed space beings and the typical immigrant. Most of the gags are so tired they barely have a pulse, particularly those involving wordy alien-speak and anatomical sight gags that is surely supposed to bring audiences to their knees, inquiring through hysterics why no one knows these guys are aliens! But even though it can be cringe-inducing just how out of touch some of the jokes are, there's an undeniable sweetness to it all that makes Coneheads really hard to hate. It's a bizarre, one-note film that throws every schticky punchline it knows at you (and literally ever former SNL star you could pick out of a lineup), but, hey, at least it's got personality.