A Night At the Roxbury

Another Saturday Night Live skit-to-screen comedy: this one isn't as abysmal as The Coneheads or It's Pat, but it's not on par with Wayne's World or The Blues Brothers. Reprising their head-bopping Butabi brothers, SNL-ers Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell spend the entirety of the film trying to get into the Roxbury, LA's chicest night club. Of course the fashion-challenged siblings -- replete with chains and polyester -- think they're the hottest movers and shakers since John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, but they're really a pair of delusional dimwits who live at home, can't get laid, and are shunned at every club door. Along the way a woman comes between them (SNL's Molly Shannon in an uproarious bit), they hang out with Richard Grieco, and they get berated by their controlling father (Dan Hedaya looking ripe for a coronary). Although the film occasionally achieves the warm goofiness of The Wedding Singer, its real star is the retro-hip disco soundtrack ("What Is Love"), which sustains the sherds of momentum with a throbbing, rhythmic energy. If only SNL alum Mike Myers had tossed his 54 shtick into this flick, there might have been at least one entertaining cinematic take on club life. At the Harbour Mall, Holiday, Tri-Boro, and Woonsocket cinemas.

-- Tom Meek