5 Best Movies Inspired by 'Saturday Night Live'

[WyldeMan45]

I just read this write up on Yahoo of the top 5 best SNL inspired movies, so I thought I'd create a poll including all of the SNL films and see which do you think is the absolute all-time greatest SNL inspired film. I couldn't choose just one, so I included my top 3, but my vote got to the Blues Brothers for replay value alone, even if Wayne's World taught me to schwing at the age of 7.

The Blues Brothers (1980)
The first feature film spun off from SNL is still considered to be the best. The characters of "Joliet" Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) were never in a sketch on the show, but they were the musical guests in 1978. The movie is not only wildly funny with some of the best car chases ever filmed, but it also preserves some wonderful performances by music legends like James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and John Lee Hooker.

Wayne's World (1992)
After Mike Myers and Dana Carvey helped revitalize SNL in the early '90s, it was only logical to bring their signature characters to the big screen. The movie was so popular it put Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" back on the Billboard top 10 singles chart nearly two decades after it was first released. "Wayne's World" was a surprise smash, taking in $121 million in the U.S., but the sequel in 1993 made less than half that amount.

Office Space (1999)
Milton, the mumbling, bespectacled cubicle drone from this cult classic, first appeared in an animated short that Mike Judge created before he made "Beavis and Butthead." The series of cartoons were featured on SNL in 1993. In the original, Judge provided the voice of both Milton and his boss, and much of the dialogue was re-used in the movie version, including Milton's threat to "set the building on fire."