Page 10 - Thursday. October 8, 1998 - The Behrend College Beacon
Review:
the Roxbury
By Michael Coursey
staff writer
A Night at the Roxbury, a Para
mount Productions film, stars Satur
day Night Live regulars Will Ferrell
as Steve and Chris Kattan as Doug.
They are two Saturday Night Fever-
John Travolota-wannabees who
cruise the L.A. club scene. They work
by day in an artificial plant store,
owned by their father, played by vet
eran actor Dan Hedaya, whose wife
is played by Loni Anderson. The
comedy starts off in a farcical kind of
way, but falls far short when com
pared to other similar comedies.
After the success of The Blues
Brothers and Wayne’s World , this
movie created from a successful skit
on SNL, pales in comparison in co
medic writing, timing and chemistry.
The directing, production, and cin
ematography among other things
were at most typical of a cable B
Adding to the misery was Molly
Shannon as Steve’s girlfriend Emily
and a surprise appearance out of the
mothballs by Richard Grieco, of 21
Jumpstreet fame. The movie’s only
apparent plot was about Steve and
Doug, a couple of moronic cruisers,
looking for the ultimate “club babe.”
They are frustrated by their tedious
work for their father, and only live for
the night when they can don their
Miami Vice outfits and chase the la-
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dies in the clubs.
They run into problems with
their chaotic method of dancing, when
they continuously bump into the other
people in the club. One thing is ap
parent that these brothers, Doug and
Steve, have a strong bond for each
other, and don’t want that to end.
When they are repeatedly turned
down for admittance to the Roxbury
Club, they find themselves in a hope-
It’s a shame that they put
out inferior movies with
obvious talent wasted
less situation, to be so close to the
trendiest Club in L.A. and not being
able to get in.
As luck would have it they get into
a fender- bender with Richard Grieco
(playing himself, and looking like he’s
had too many plates of lasagna) who
is so afraid of getting sued by these
geeks, that he takes them as his guest
to the Roxbury.
This is where they meet the owner
of the club, played by Chazz
Palmenteri and hook-up with a couple
of barflies, Vivica and Cambi. They
spend some time partying with them
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until they find out they’re a couple of
Basically after that, Steve moves up
his relationship with Emily and they
move toward marriage. The problem
with the movie is every time a joke
or line was
setup, 90% of the time it failed mis
erably. It seemed the skits on SNL
had more thought and better timing
than this movie that only ran a hour
and 20 minutes. It’s a shame that they
put out inferior movies with obvious
talent wasted; maybe some better
writing and commitment would make
a better product. I was immensely
disappointed with this movie. Better
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