Based on the old Saturday Night Live skit "It's Pat" from the early 1990s, the film "It's Pat" details the life of this androgynous person named Pat Riley, Pat's life and the comedic attempts of everyone around Pat to figure out whether Pat is a man or a woman.
The story finds Pat trying to establish Pat's self and along the way Pat meet and falls in love with Chris, another androgynous person. But Pat's failures in life and repeated job-jumping forces Chris to dump Pat. Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor Kyle becomes obsessed with learning what Pat's true gender is.
Whether it's Pat falling down the stairs and crushing Pat's nuts ("Awwww, there goes my afternoon snack!") or it's Pat getting a hug and seeming to be very excited only to find out that it really was a banana in Pat's pocket, hilarity ensues at every turning point in the film. Even when Pat finds Pat's self on stage to play with the band Ween. Even one man, who is obsessed with learning whether or not Pat is a man or a woman, goes to great lengths to hack into Pat's computer using every word from A to Z in the dictionary before finding the password.
Movies based on Saturday Night Live skits usually fail in terms of quality -- whether it's plot, acting, comedic writing and lines, the overall story, film techniques or other aesthetics. But "It's Pat" is one of the most beautiful movies you'll ever see based off of an SNL skit that was often times cut because Adam Sandler had a song to sing. The plot is top notch of trying to figure out what gender Pat is and the aesthetically, the film is just beautiful. Granted, it's not like the vistas that Terrence Malick shoots in his films, but it is beautiful nonetheless.
And comedic? HO! My stomach and ribs hurt when I was done watching this movie on account of how hard I was laughing. You can keep your "The Hangover" thank you very much. This is the funniest movie I've ever seen. Bar None.
In closing, just let me say: Happy April Fools Day.
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