I loved their clothes and their hair looked great. So one night I picked up some movies, including this one - and I became hooked! If you don't know the skit, you don't really 'get it'). He wanted to see it at the theatre but I didn't want to - I had never seen SNL (which DOES make a difference. I reluctantly rented this movie for my husband. Richard Grieco demonstrates a remarkable sense of humor about himself by allowing the Butabis to build him up as a big celebrity, when the joke is obviously that he's a total has-been. What's not to love? Dan Hedaya is great as the brothers' disgruntled dad, and Chazz Palminteri does a hilarious cameo as an entrepreneur obsessed with ass-grabbing. They have a strong fraternal bond, they're obsessed with Emilio Estevez, and they can't get any play. The essential question is, are the protagonists of "A Night at the Roxbury" lovable losers or just totally annoying dweebs who deserve all the grief they get? You know my answer already. Comic protagonists always take a beating, and we either laugh with them, or at them, or maybe we laugh not at all because we couldn't care less. Most critics didn't see a distinction between these two bombs, but I do.
I've just bombed "Joe Dirt," and now I'm going to do an about-face on modern comedies and argue that "A Night at the Roxbury" is brilliant.
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