It's based on the "Saturday Night Live" skits about the Butabi brothers, Steve and Doug ( Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan), who snap their heads in unison with the music and each other, while trying out pick-up lines in spectacularly unlikely situations. " "A Night at the Roxbury" is such a movie. I approach it as an opportunity for meditation. Sometimes a movie is so witless that I abandon any attempt to think up clever lines for my review, and return in defeat to actually watching the film itself. Kepesh of Chicago writes, "Do you ever find yourself distracted during a screening by thoughts of the review you will later write? Distracted to the point of missing part of the film?" Sometimes it gets much worse than that, D. However, perhaps time has been kind to Roxbury, as its audience score is a strangely fresh (and appropriately "nice") 69%.D. Besides bombing, A Night At The Roxbury earned a disastrous 11% critic's score, stalling Ferrell's film career and killing Kattan's.
Paramount saw bucks in the Butabis, but they were the only ones. It was kinda funny for six minutes, but did these guys ever even talk on SNL? Did we even know their names? Didn't matter. The one who seemed the least likely to warrant a movie was Steve Butabi, who - along with his brother, Doug (played by Chris Kattan) - was an obnoxious clubgoer who "danced" to Haddaway's "What Is Love?" Ferrell had several memorable characters during his seven-year run, including Harry Caray, Marty Culp, and Craig the Cheerleader. Ferrell was on SNL for seven years, from 1995-2002, and he might've left sooner had Roxbury not bombed with $30 million in 1998, less than half as much as the $75 million that his breakout role in Old School earned in 2003.
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