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A Night At The Roxbury
1998
Two brothers, Steve and Doug, never seem to make it on to the list of cool dudes who inhabit the guest list of the Roxbury Club. When Richard Grieco involves them in a slight motor vehicle accident to avoid complications he invites the pair in... Read more
| Starring | Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Dan Hedaya, Richard Grieco |
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| Director | John Fortenberry, Peter Markle |
| Genres | Comedy |
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A Night At The Roxbury
Two brothers, Steve and Doug, never seem to make it on to the list of cool dudes who inhabit the guest list of the Roxbury Club. When Richard Grieco involves them in a slight motor vehicle accident to avoid complications he invites the pair in...
| Starring | Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Dan Hedaya, Richard Grieco, Loni Anderson, Molly Shannon, Elisa Donovan, Gigi Rice, Lochlyn Munro, Dwayne Hickman |
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| Director | John Fortenberry, Peter Markle |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 19 mins Watch now: 1 hr 21 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German, Hungarian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 04 Sep 2000 Watch now: 08 Apr 2009 Production year: 1998 |
| Watch now | FREE |
| Format | DVD |
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Beware movies based on comedy sketches as, with very few exceptions (Wayne's World being one), they are rarely very good. This tale, based on a Saturday Night Live skit about two dumber-than-dumb, sexist brothers trying to get into the coolest clubs in LA, is utterly devoid of any redeeming features. The actors (Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan) are irritating, the script is humourless, and at under an hour-and-a-half it is still 80 minutes too long. The highlight amid the gloom? A mildly amusing spoof of the “you complete me” scene from Jerry Maguire. By the time it appears, though, you will have already abandoned this as a lost cause.
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Yet another comic spin-off from the US TV series Saturday Night Live; on the big screen, it is dumb, stupid and not at all funny.
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17 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Ouch!!
This movie had me in stitches from start to finish. It's not intelligent comedy, but if that doesn't bother you, you'll love this film.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Fantastic (if you like that sort of thing)!
This film is firmly rooted in the genre sparked by Bill & Ted and Wayne’s World, but treated with a knowing and frankly quite bizarre eye.
Whilst most of the recent efforts at this kind of movie (e.g. Dude, where’s my car?) are also trademark silly and slightly surreal, Roxbury is subtler. First off, the two ‘teenage brothers’ are being played by men in their late thirties, and the film’s take on the eighties is hilarious and at the same time tellingly believable.
Much of the humour is visual, and whilst it seems to grate a little at the start, I quickly found myself getting drawn into the guys’ (utterly ludicrous) world. If you can put up with the level of silliness, then you will probably find this film very funny.
It is a credit to the pace and humour of the film that you don’t tend to notice the lack of a proper plot structure until you think about it afterward. It’s not big, it’s not deep, and it’s only a bit clever, but I love it anyway. But be warned - if you don’t, you’ll probably really hate it. -
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Two brothers, Steve and Doug, never seem to make it on to the list of cool dudes who inhabit the guest list of the Roxbury Club. When Richard Grieco involves them in a slight motor vehicle accident ... -