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16 out of 24 people found the following comment useful :-
'It Sucks: The Movie': better title, 24 January 2004

Author: Scott LeBrun from Winnipeg, Canada

Ill-advised attempt to create a feature film vehicle for the disgusting, creepy androgynous "Pat" character that Julia Sweeney created for "Saturday Night Live".

To begin with, most people knew this film shouldn't have been made in the first place. How prophetic.

Flat, forced comedy in which "Pat" searches for fame and fortune while romancing the equally gender-bending "Chris" (David Foley). Charles Rocket plays Kyle, a neighbor of "Pat"'s who ruins his marriage when he becomes unhinged in his quest to confirm Pat's gender.

Now, I like Sweeney; I really, really do, but she'll have to bear some of the blame for this 'comedy' that provides little to no entertainment value. I think I had two good laughs in total.

For once, a film that I can believe should go on the IMDB bottom 100 list.

Even at 78 minutes this film is too long; an SNL skit that was vaguely amusing at best is stretched out too darn far.

I got to say, though, for such a bad comedy, Rocket certainly plays his weirded-out character well.

If I DIDN'T like Sweeney, I would easily give this 1/10.

As it stands...2/10.

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12 out of 19 people found the following comment 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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3 out of 4 people found the following comment 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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4 out of 6 people found the following comment 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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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
a comic masterpiece, 29 August 2000

Author: (sww7044@aol.com) from philly

This was easily the best movie I ever seen. It's talented plot and comedy has you laughing the rest of the day. I think this movie should ne re-released so the generation that wasn't around to see it when it came out could experience this rich, witty, work of art. You might get hurt from laughing to hard, I mean, it's genus, you don't know if it's a boy or a girl. You can't go wrong. If you haven't seen this one, do yourself a favor and find out what everybody is talking about.

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Quite an interesting film, 29 May 2000

Author: spyder-19 from Sydney, Australia

True, It's Pat is not a Citizen Kane or Ben Hur or even The Mask. True, It's Pat has a single line as storyline. True, It's Pat is an average, if not bad comedy. But--and this is the big but--what It's Pat has in its favor is an element of the bizarre, the weird, cinematically speaking. I mean, when did we last see a film that dealt solely with what the sex of its protagonist was. And, more importantly, when did we last see a film that never revealed this secret? Unconventional cinema is a treat that comes your way once in a navy-blue moon. I don't think we should shun it. I would rate It's Pat up there with Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Ed Wood and Gridlock'd.

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Bad, but not the worst movie ever, 4 January 2008

Author: Jsimpson5 from United States

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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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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
too clever for most, 5 January 2002
Author: Kyle from ross ice shelf

While on a romantic vacation in Mexico with my spouse we came across "It's Pat!," one of the only English language movies on the television. This movie is more than an expanded version of the TV skit, the character in the movie is much more funny. Pats lack of a specific gender is merely a side note to his/her/whatever selfishness. Pats gender jokes are funny, but, this is more a movie about how silly people look when they are too wrapped up in themselves. If you rant about how bad "It's Pat!" is, it is probably because it hits too close to home.

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
A pretty good movie that had some hilarious moments, 24 December 1998

Author: Jose Cisneros

I must admit, I wasn't expecting much of this movie when I saw it on cable, but i didn't have anything else to do (and there was nothing else on tv) so I decided to watch this movie. To my amazement the movie was pretty good. Don't get me wrong or anything like that, it wasn't an oscar worthy production or some runaway hit, but the movie made me laugh hysterically in many of its insane scenes. I suggest you give this movie try....You will be laughing!

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
good movie, 4 April 2003

Author: Andrea-Gail (ill_tumble_4_ya@msn.com) from Ontario, Canada

It's Pat is about Julia Sweeney's SNL character Pat Riley, looking for love and a 'place' to be ...pat. Pat is of undeterminable gender and most of the film is of people trying to figure out whether Pat is male or female and Pat's new neighbor Kyle (Charles Rocket) falls for Pat and becomes obsessed, trying to learn every detail of Pat's life. The first 3/4 of it is good, really funny, but then near the ending, you start to get bored. It drones on, not really going anywhere. It's still a good movie, good for many laughs.

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