Cheese with a side order of cheese.

Rating: 5/10 (27 February 2001)

I think Will Ferrell is one talented comic. I watch Saturday Night Live regularly and on a bad night, he's sometimes the only saving grace. Yet outside late night TV, I haven't seen him in anything worthy yet. I doubt it's a question if he's talented, I think more likely it's the material. He captured a couple of laughs from me in the Austin Powers flick, but that was a case in sound effects more than anything.
So here we are with the latest skit turned feature length movie. I'm not the first and definitely not the last, but I'm gonna say it anyway. You can't take a five minute skit and turn it into a 90+ minute movie. Well in this case a 80-something minute movie. Perhaps the first sign of impending doom. Couldn't find the material for another ten minutes?
If you've seen SNL lately then you know about the club hitting dudes who groove to Haddaway's "What Is Love". This movie adds that they're brothers and somehow that's not the surprise it should have been. The hassle known as plot has the duo trying to get into to the high profile club, the Roxbury, owned by Chazz Palminteri in a brief, but hilarious unbilled role. What follows from there is just filler. They throw in love interest sub-plots, but it's of little importance. I can't recommend "A Night at the Roxbury". I'm afraid only SNL fans or those with a extreme love for cheesy bad movies will find something to cheer for here.