Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno), Saturday Night follows Lorne Michaels and the original cast of Saturday Night Live in the hour-and-a-half leading up to the show's first ever live episode in 1975. The dialogue and some of the events are fictionalized, but the movie is based on a true story. And in case you forget which famous faces were involved with the initial SNL episode, we've got Billy Crystal, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, George Carlin, Milton Berle, Al Franken, Andy Kaufman, John Belushi and more.
As I previously wrote when I first saw the film in theaters, the movie "is funny, chaotic and absolutely enthralling. The fast-paced plot is less concerned with character development (though we do get gems involving each of the famous faces) and more focused on the perfect storm that occurred on that October night in 1975, which brought about the revolutionary show that is still airing today."
I continued, "The movie has more than a few laugh out loud scenes (including Nicholas Braun's Kaufman doing his iconic 'Mighty Mouse' number) and the one-liners fly so fast it's hard to catch them all."
Needless to say, I love the film. But I do have a bone to pick with its Rotten Tomatoes score.
