Some characters are not meant for the big screen and the Butabis are two of them.ĭirector John Fortenberry tries to do the impossible: make a feature film out of nothing. It’s one thing to laugh at these characters when they’re bobbing their heads with the likes of Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, and Sylvester Stallone for five minutes on a comedy show, but it is a whole other ballgame when you’re forced to listen to them talk on top of their normal routine for 81 minutes.
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The movie succeeds in using the same cheesy music and giving us two idiots with no social graces that like to go clubbing. Score!Ī Night at the Roxbury tries to build on the success of the five minute sketch from SNL, where the characters never speak, constantly bob their heads while listening to a cheesy dance song by Haddaway, and dance with gaggle of women who want nothing to do with them. From there, their night and their lives begin to travel on a new road that still leads to nowhere. Trying to avoid a lawsuit of any kind, the Roxbury regular invites the brothers to fulfill their destiny and club at the Roxbury. Their luck, however, changes on one fateful night when their idol, Richard Grieco, crashes his sports car into the Butabis’ fake flower delivery van. They have no girlfriends, still live in the same neon light and disco ball infested bedroom, and have no luck on becoming an A-list clubber. When the Butabis are not hitting the city streets, they are working at their father's (Dan Hedaya) fake flower shop, thinking of ideas for their own nightclub. They are a determined duo - stupid, but determined. No matter how hard they try, no matter how many times they are rejected, they continue to return, night after night, with their colorful clubbing attire, unfunny jokes, and stories about an encounter with Emilio Estevez.
Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug Butabi (Chris Kattan) are not brothers … yes, they are! Score! The head-bobbing, club-hopping Butabis have dreams, and their biggest is to get into the Roxbury, the one club that has evaded them for years.
Now, A Night at the Roxbury, another failed attempt to extend the lives of another set of odd characters, has its very own special collector’s edition DVD. While they have had some success, like the Wayne’s World franchise, they have had more than their share of stinkers with It’s Pat, Stuart Saves his Family, Coneheads, Superstar, and The Ladies Man.
Unfortunately, for the movie-going public, they don’t. After 32 years of Saturday Night Live, you’d think Lorne Michaels and company would have the concept of making movies out of characters they create on television into characters for movies down to an art form.
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