A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY FULL MOVIE MOVIE
It’s tempting to say that the film was way ahead of its time, given how much costar Will Ferrell’s comedic stylings have become part of the cultural zeitgeist in the last decade (while Chris Kattan has been left behind & forgotten), but the truth is that the movie is so 90s it hurts. I have fond memories of this movie from when I was a kid & I’m sure I’m not alone there, but it’s far from the universally loved Saturday Night Live-related properties like Wayne’s World or Tommy Boy or even the recent cult-inductee MacGruber. That’s why it felt like an appropriate time to revisit A Night at the Roxbury, a sublimely dumb comedy about a pair of club-hopping airheads who survive on a strict diet of tacky suits, Gay 90s club music, and bad cologne. Long forgotten pop acts like La Bouche, The Real McCoy, Snap!, and C&C Music Factory are great motivation for a stressful service industry shift & I’ve been relying on them for moral support a great deal lately. Running time: 81 MIN.My favorite soundtrack for kitchen work is a genre of music I like to call “Gay 90s”. Reviewed at the AMC 1000, San Francisco, Sept. Camera (Deluxe color), Francis Kenny editor, Jay Kamen music, David Kitay music supervisor, Elliot Lurie production designer, Steven Jordan art director, Carl Stensel set decorator, John Philpotts costume designer, Mona May sound (Dolby digital/DTS), Jim Tanenbaum associate producer, Erin Fraser assistant director, J.
Screenplay, Steve Koren, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan. Also, the titular club on the Sunset Strip has since gone the way of the Imperial Gardens and the Players Club before it at the same location, and is now a Japanese eatery.Ī Paramount release, presented in association with SNL Studios, of a Lorne Michaels and Amy Heckerling production. For the record, director John Fortenberry (“Jury Duty”) replaced original helmer Peter Markle after two weeks’ shooting. Pacing is tight, and the aptly disco-tawdry saturated colors in lensing and design work are punched up to intended gaudy effect. Uninspired screenplay never lifts this into the high silliness that the “Wayne’s World” movies managed, but overall effect is painless enough.
Support players (including Lochlyn Munro from “Dead Man on Campus,” Meredith Scott Lynn as Kattan’s love interest and other “SNL” classmates Mark McKinney and Colin Quinn) are given middling material at best. Latter prevents former’s marriage in the nick, however, and circumstance happily finds them co-owners of a spanking new club.įerrell and Kattan gamely sustain their one-note characters. This idyll can’t last, and subsequent fallout finds Steve elbowed by Dad toward wedlock with pushy neighbor Emily (fellow SNL regular Molly Shannon), while Doug pouts on the sidelines. Pair then find themselves embraced by the venue’s owner (an unbilled Chazz Palminteri), as well as pursued by two slinky gold-diggers (Elisa Donovan, Gigi Rice) who mistake them for rich businessmen. A car accident with former “21 Jump Street” co-star Richard Grieco (in an expanded cameo as himself) at last provides them with the desired entrance clout. What the boys dream about, however, is opening their own club, one modeled on top local discotheque the Roxbury - which they’re too uncool to get into. (Cocaine refs are out, suggesting that what NBC can get away with in post-primetime broadcast isn’t something parents will overlook at the multiplex.)
Pic relocates duo from NYC to sunny Beverly Hills, where they’re the hapless offspring of a much-lifted glam mom (Loni Anderson, a bit hapless herself here) and a perennially irate dad (Dan Hedaya), at whose fake-flower shop they grudgingly work. Opening seg reprises the skit’s basic shtick - hair-gelled, silver- chained, satin-blazer-wearing brothers Steve (Ferrell) and Doug Bubati (Kattan) cruise niteries to the endless thump of disco tune “What Is Love?,” alienating every “babe” they try to pick up.
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