EMILIOOOOO!!! (A Night At The Roxbury (DVD))

Member Name: pablodiablo

Product:	A Night At The Roxbury (DVD)
Date:	25/04/02 (264 review reads)
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Advantages: Instantly quotable, hilarious , just soo much fun

Disadvantages: not exactly oscar material but who cares

And so begins my quest to review my entire video and dvd collection ( i am going to get tired of it really quickly ). Starting off with A Night At The Roxbury, a comedy directed by john fortenberry and brought to us by the creator of clueless featuring two characters from saturday night live. The Butabi brothers, Steve (will ferrel-zoolander) and Doug(chris kattan-monkeybone) are a pair of club hopping nutters who never have any luck with the ladies and seriously annoy their fake plant store owning father (Dan Hedaya-shaft,nixon). The two brothers are a mix between the guys from dumb and dumber and john travolta in saturday night live.

Every night they go to various clubs and do their little dances ( mostly consisting of simply bobbing their heads from side to side or flinging themselves at hot ladies ) but the one club they can't get into is the roxbury, the hottest club in town (bouncered by michael-clarke-duncan ) . The brothers dream of opening their own nightclub but how are they going to open a cool club when they can't even get into a cool club. However, one night when they are accidently crashed into by Richard Grieco (playing himself) he (eager to avoid being sued) gets them into the club. There they meet the owner mr zadir ( played brilliantly by chazz palminteri- the usual suspects ) and are pulled into the world that they dreamed of.

This film is an absolute scream, all of the characters are caricatures so it really shouldn't be taken too seriously. The club owner mr zadir is a big man who constantly asks people if 'they touched his ass'. Steve is constantly harrassed by the neighbours daughter ( molly shannon ) and is eventually bullied into getting engaged, an idea that delights his father who wants to combine shops with her father. Doug is constantly phoning up an operator at the credit company because he likes her voice.

There are so many quotable moments in the film, the brothers tell everyone they mee
t about the time they saw emilio estevez in hilarious fashion and a trip along the beach in the tightest swimming trunks ever is also a laugh out loud moment. The plot is hackneyed and some of the acting by the support cast is weak but this film is about laughs. And of course at the end everything is rosy for the boys.

I currently have this on video ( it comes in a nice shiny glittery box that looks good on the shelf ) which cost be about £3 but i would buy it on dvd just because it is a cult classic it is certificate 15 and 78 minutes long. Get drunk watch this film and laugh till your sides hurt. Then get drunk again and have fun quoting it and making each other laugh till beer comes out of your noses.

Cheers

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