A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

If you are a thinker you will get all the humor in this movie. Some of the humor has to be considered, {Deeply}. Some of it has to marinate. Then giggles and ROFL comes later. There are references to old technology that, can give you the"Hmms", then the "BaHa-Ha-Ha s!" Such references leave you longing for more of them.I never encountered guys like these during my young adult nightclub years. However, I think if I had, I would have enjoyed their friendship. Corny dudes trying to not be corny. I recommend it to anyone who appreciates laughter. We don't do enough of it.

Los Angeles-area brothers Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell (as Doug and Steve Butabi) have a serious case of arrested development. The adult men share a bedroom in their parents' home and dress like idiots. They dream of someday opening their own disco, but neither Mr. Kattan nor Mr. Ferrell seem smarter than a fifth grader. One of their greatest skills is bopping their heads, in unison, to Haddaway's "What Is Love?" They love the nightlife and wanna boogie, but can't even gain admittance to the popular "Roxbury" nightclub. One evening, the brothers are lucky enough to get into a fender-bender with Richard Grieco. To avoid blame, the "21 Jump Street" star gets Kattan and Ferrell into the club. They score with attractive women and lose their virginity...All good skits from the late-night TV series "Saturday Night Live" seem to falter around 30 seconds before they end. Curiously, many go on to become feature-length films. Kattan and Ferrell (as the Butabi Brothers) follow this progression. On television, they were sometimes joined by Jim Carrey; here, he does not appear. We do get to see old favorites Loni Anderson ("WKRP") and Dwayne Hickman ("Dobie Gillis "), although the word "old" will likely never accurately describe Ms. Anderson. She would have no trouble being admitted to the Roxbury and finding a dance partner. The cast and crew do a nice job and the script seems logical, but the motion picture never seems to stretch. That's okay, because an average movie is certainly better than a dud.***** A Night at the Roxbury (10/1/98) John Fortenberry ~ Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell, Dan Hedaya, Molly Shannon

This is one of those movies which I saw an ad for and decided that I wanted to see it. My first impression was that it was about two guys in the vein of Bill and Ted. Afterwards I began to have second thoughts yet I still went along to see it. My final opinion of this movie is that it is good, and quite funny in parts. When the movie's gags stick in my mind then the comedy has succeeded.A Night at the Roxbury are about two brothers who cruise the nightclub circuit of Los Angeles looking for girls. Their dream is to own a night club, but they really are not all that cool. In fact they find themselves thrown out of more night clubs than let into them. Their jokes are funny to them but nobody else. In fact, they live in their own little world in which they want people to be apart of, but the serious people think they are pure donks. What ends up happening is that the owner of the Roxbury, the best nightclub in Los Angeles, actually likes them and wants to implement their ideas, yet his driver thinks him mad and does not like them.This is not the plot though. The main focus of the movie is their relationship with their father. Their father has great plans for them, but they don't want to pursue them. One of them is really unsure, and after they have a fight, he is easily taken away, forced to marry a woman that he really does not like, and to run a business he does not want to run.There is an interesting warning in the movie - don't jump on the woman that chases you around because you will discover that she is trying to mould you to what she wants you to be. I can think of a woman who is like that, and fortunately my friends managed to pull me away from her.I can't really think of any deep or meaningful thing to say about this movie, but that is not its point. A Night at the Roxbury is not a deep movie, it is a fun movie. It shows you that what normal people consider donks can succeed in their bizarre plans. It is interesting that they get their nightclub and become partners with the most prominent nightclub owner in the city. It gives us an idea of what the night life is like, but at this point in history it is something that we don't need to know. I still liked this movie though.

I'm 14 and I recently watched "A Night At The Roxbury" for the first time. The only reason why I wanted to see it in the first place was because of Chris Kattan (one of my all-time favorite comedians). But I was surprised. Yes, the film is incredibly dated, but so what? The gags/jokes flow perfectly, Ferrell and Kattan's performances are hilarious, the film doesn't dwell on "SEX" like what most recent comedies do and the soundtrack is the icing on the cake. It also might have one of the most rewarding and just simply perfect endings I've seen in any comedy. The bad things for the film is yet again, the film is INCREDIBLY dated and I noticed a lot of similalities to "Wayne's World" (yet another SNL film) like the psycho-girlfriend. It's pretty much "Wayne's World" but with early-mid 90's techno music instead of rock/metal tunes.Overall, quite an underrated comedy gem. Check it out (and the soundtrack too).7.5/10