This is a film she specifically requested either for Christmas or her birthday. The only reason I am giving four stars instead of five is that I was told that my selection had arrived on December 8 in an email I received when in actuality it didnt arrive until December 11. The entertaining, satisfying climactic stretch, which boasts an admittedly hilarious Say Anything… reference, ensures that the whole thing concludes on a relatively compelling note, at least, with the end result a barely-passable SNL comedy that certainly could’ve fared a whole lot worse. I ordered 'A Night At the Roxbury' DVD as a gift for my granddaughter. There’s little doubt, however, that A Night at the Roxbury isn’t entirely able to justify its feature-length running time, as the movie, though running about 77 minutes without credits, suffers from a handful of palpable lulls and ineffective subplots that cumulatively prevent the viewer from ever wholeheartedly embracing the material. It’s a thin premise that’s employed to mostly watchable yet exceedingly hit-and-miss effect by John Fortenberry, as the filmmaker, working from a script by Ferrell, Kattan, and Steve Koren, delivers a relatively brisk comedy that benefits from its stars’ likeable work and an ongoing emphasis on admittedly amusing gags and set-pieces – with the movie, in addition, certainly receiving plenty of mileage out of the appealing efforts of an eclectic supporting cast that includes Dan Hedaya, Molly Shannon, and Michael Clarke Duncan. More importantly, the soundtrack to said film makes a good excuse for a compilation full of surefire club hits whose sights are set squarely on the dancefloor. Based on the Saturday Night Live sketch, A Night at the Roxbury follows Will Ferrell’s Steve and Chris Kattan’s Doug as they attempt to overcome a series of obstacles to own their own nightclub. Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels managed to turn Will Ferrell and Chris Kattans recurring one-joke skit about two clueless clubheads into a major motion picture.
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