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Snl movies. Wayne s world and its sequel were perhaps the most popular and highest grossing snl movies ever made while the other movies have yet to live up to the success of those early snl films they re still fun for snl fans. Take popular possibly one joke characters from the show and fill 90. Here are the ten best snl movies according to their imdb score. Saturday night live has made several efforts to develop some of the more popular sketches into feature length films with varying degrees of commercial and critical success.

To date 11 movies based on hit snl sketches have hit theaters in which the most popular recurring characters get 90 minutes of big screen time to tell a story far too big for a five minute. This is the movie that created the formula for future snl films. Fans of saturday night live have a special place in their comedic hearts for some of the show s classic characters many of whom graduated to starring roles in movies. Here you will find your favorite sketches behind the scenes clips and web exclusives featur.

If the blues brothers was the best snl movie ever made wayne s world can at least enjoy a comfortable number two slot the fact that the first two snl films produced were the best doesn t bode well as another eight movies were still to come. The blues brothers directed by legendary director john landis was the first snl film and earned a sequel 18 years later. Some proved to fare. In 1990 lorne michaels oversaw the writing of a sketch anthology feature film titled the saturday night live movie with many of the show s then current writing staff in.

The first foray into film came with the successful aykroyd and belushi vehicle the blues brothers which earned over 115 million on a 27 million budget.