"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 sketch.
Most of these films were churned out in the '90s, and most of them are pleasant, fun, and, as examples of cinema, okay. Audiences have been largely indifferent to this particular genre of film. As box office goes, only one cleared the magical $100 million threshold; quite a few were full-on flops. However, there are some actual classics in the mix … along with a few whose mere existence is inexplicable (and mainly forgotten)."
