{"id":239,"date":"2024-06-16T03:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=239"},"modified":"2024-10-14T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:09:15","slug":"its-pat-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/06\/16\/its-pat-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-924\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-PIC.jpg?resize=620%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-PIC.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-PIC.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie \u00a0<\/strong>(1994)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Touchstone\/ Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 75 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (crude vulgar humor, brief nudity, androgyny)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Adam Bernstein\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Julia Sweeney, Jim Emerson and Stephen Hibbert\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Mark Mothersbaugh\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jeff Jur\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 26, 1994 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, Kathy Griffin, Julie Hayden, Timothy Stack, Larry Hankin, Kathy Najimy, Tim Meadows, Ween.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $60,822 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>NO STARS!!!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Over the years, many Saturday Night Live skits have been made into feature films. Only a few really worked- The Blues Brothers, Wayne&#8217;s World and Coneheads. The others, like A Night at the Roxbury and Superstar- are generally pretty bad. The absolute worst of the bunch is <strong>Its Pat: The Movie<\/strong>, an abomination that opened in only three cities in the entire country. It&#8217;s NOT funny on any level. It\u2019s not even funny by accident. Quite the opposite, the whole movie is an accident.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The idea behind the Pat sketches is that nobody can tell whether Pat is male or female and try to ask in roundabout ways only to get non-committal type answers. It barely works in five minute increments let alone a 75-minute movie. I have never met a single person who likes Pat. I can\u2019t believe they really expected to get a feature length movie out of this terrible character. Who&#8217;s the dummy that thought this would work? Does this dummy still have a job?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Pat, played by Julia Sweeney, is not a funny character. Pat is annoying, gross, inconsiderate, self-absorbed, narcissistic, oblivious, rude, ugly, pushy and just plain creepy. Pat is the type of person you walk blocks out of your way to avoid running into him\/her\/it. Pat is why they invented restraining orders. Why make a movie about a person like this? Who\u2019d want to watch it other than masochists? Judging by its terrible box office performance, next to nobody had any desire to see <strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The plot, if it even matters, has Pat falling in love with another androgynous creepozoid named Chris (Foley). Hey, they get my vote for world\u2019s creepiest couple. A subplot has Pat\u2019s new neighbor (Rocket, Dumb and Dumber) becoming obsessed with Pat and Pat\u2019s gender. He tries every trick in the book including going through the entire dictionary to get Pat\u2019s computer password to no avail. In addition, Pat gets a job as a radio therapist after getting a \u201cfriend\u201d (comedian Griffin) fired from the gig. These are the salient plot points. Let me save you the trouble of suffering through <strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie<\/strong>; we never learn Pat&#8217;s gender!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Remember the 90s folk rock group Ween and their big hit \u201cPush the Little Daisies and Make Them Come Up?\u201d They appear as themselves and I can tell you exactly why. It allows Pat the opportunity to announce &#8220;I just played with the Ween!&#8221; to her grossed-out neighbors after he\/she does a tuba solo at one of their gigs. Ha, ha, that\u2019s so funny I forgot to laugh. \u00a0Oh yeah, Pat also goes through a series of jobs and gets fired from all of them. The low point is Pat sneezing on a tray of sushi and covering it with snot. Come to think of it, pretty much every scene is a low point. It is awful in every conceivable way. It\u2019s a complete waste on every level. There isn\u2019t anything in the universe capable of salvaging this turd, not even an uncredited script doctoring by Quentin Tarantino. I am astonished that Adam Bernstein was allowed to direct another theatrical movie, Six Ways to Sunday, after this humorless fiasco. As for Sweeney, she should be ashamed of herself. She\u2019s a funny lady and should never have let things get this far with Pat. Was she contractually obligated to do a Pat movie or what?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie is<\/strong> a complete embarrassment. Even at 75 minutes, it feels way too long. It\u2019s easily the most excruciating &#8220;comedy&#8221; I have ever watched. It feels less like watching a movie than witnessing a crime against cinema. I\u2019m not even sure I can call it a movie. It\u2019s more like a black hole. I can\u2019t believe a major studio is behind it. Philadelphia wasn\u2019t among the three cities in which <strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie<\/strong> opened which shows our fair city has some class. I voluntarily rented it when it came out on video just to see if it was as bad as I heard. It was worse. I even tried to convince the clerk to give me a refund to no avail.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0I\u2019ll never understand why some movies get made. <strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie <\/strong>is at the top of the list. I can\u2019t think of a single thing to justify its existence. It\u2019s as obnoxious as in titular character. It\u2019s also as hateful. There, I said it. I HATE Pat! I hate Pat with a passion. As such, I HATE <strong>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie<\/strong>. It\u2019s lower than pond scum and not even a tenth as useful.<\/p>\r\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-923\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C912&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-POSTER.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-POSTER.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Pat: The Movie \u00a0(1994)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Touchstone\/ Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 75 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (crude vulgar humor, brief nudity, androgyny)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Adam Bernstein\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Julia Sweeney, Jim Emerson and Stephen Hibbert\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Mark Mothersbaugh\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jeff Jur\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 26, 1994 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, Kathy Griffin, Julie Hayden, Timothy Stack, Larry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-this-sucks-so-bad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Its-Pat-The-Movie-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}