The National Post recently ran an overview of the best and worst movies to emanate from Saturday Night Live sketches, using the release of Ladies Man as their hook. Making their worst list, in accordance with Leonard Maltin, was It's Pat, the feature based on Julia Sweeney's clever gender-confusion sketch.

I would beg to differ: this SNL-sketch-to-feature-film is among my very faves. First, they actually fleshed Pat out and gave her/him some funny additional characteristics. Believe it or not, this androgynous type is a layabout and when Pat finally falls in love, a point of frustration for the love interest is Pat's general slackerness (okay, it doesn't sound that funny in description, but it is).

As well, Pat's object of affection is equally androgynous and brilliantly portrayed by David Foley. Kids in the Hall fans, take note: his performance is another brilliantly pitched bit of gender confusion, one followers of the cult Canadian TV series won't want to miss. I don't know what reviewers' major malfunction was on this one: rent It's Pat now and see for yourself.

Spike Lee has cited A Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan's '57 film about celebrity and TV culture, as a major inspiration for Bamboozled, his latest. Kazan's film is well worth the rent, especially during the current U.S. presidential race. The film remains remarkably pertinent today.

--Matthew Hays