“You wanna know another thing I hate? Senseless evil.”
It’s Pat: The Movie - It’s Fine: The Review
Well before Letterboxd existed, this already earned a reputation as the worst, most despicable SNL byproduct ever created. I forget why I put this on my watchlist forever ago, but I was pleasantly surprised by It’s Pat.
Its worst crimes are an awful original score and several long, boring stretches. But each time I’m getting bored, Dave Foley or Charles Rocket comes in with an amazing line reading and I’m back. Yes, the jokes about people trying to decode Pat’s gender get tiresome, but they’re also interesting as a verbal precursor to the Austin Powers sight gags that would be so memorable a decade later.
I’m not the right person to weigh in on the debate between Letterboxd reviewers who see this as aggressively anti-queer and those raising it as a proto-pride document. I would be horrified to even kinda identify with Pat since they have odious personal habits and are so deeply annoying. But then Chris, the other indeterminably-gendered person in the movie, kind of slays. I really don’t know. Perhaps It’s Pat is a representational Rorschach test for viewers.
