A night of stupidity

Rating: 2/10 (23 September 2018)

You ever get that feeling that when you're sitting in the theatre, and you're watching a movie, and it's so stupid, and you want to leave, but somehow you make it through It?, "A Night at the Roxbury" is the perfect example. There is no doubt this picture will do well at the box office this weekend, and that's sad because of how stupid it is.
It's about two wealthy idiot brothers, Steve Butabi (Will Farrell) and Doug Butabi (Chris Kattan) who frequent various nightclubs in L.A. Their dream is to party at a legendary nightclub called "The Roxbury." The problem is they are too stupid to get in the front door. By day, they work at their dad's fake plant store and by night, and fail miserably at picking up women on the sunset strip. After a fender-bender with Richard Grieco, he gets them into the Roxbury where they meet the owner, Benny Zadir (Chazz Palminteri) and attempt to set up a business deal with him to open up a nightclub of their own If they don't screw it up first.
"Saturday Night Live" is where skits about the Butabi brothers were born, and It proceeds to make us wonder why the hell we are watching something so stupid and how the actors or the director of this picture, John Fortenberry thought any of it was funny. What's worst is Amy Heckerling is the producer of this as she is responsible for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." These dummies twiddle their noses like they just sniffed cocaine and proceed to hump every woman in their view. Well, I am surprised a woman doesn't mace them in the movie for sexual assault.
Glittery lights and a cruising BMW open this picture to the tune of "Haddaway - What is Love?" with the brothers bopping their heads in unison to the song. After getting kicked out of clubs for being unpleasant and dumb, they waste the night away by driving down the road and trying to act cool with each other. Instead, they end up crashing their car for being stupid. A female cop shows up and begins writing the ticket. Steve attempts to flirt with her at the moronic advice of Doug. The policewoman is the smarter character of the scene for walking away after issuing a ticket which these idiots interpret as an actual date as opposed to the court date for being dumb.
They wake up the next morning and decide to walk around their local beach talking about their dreams of owning their nightclub. Unfortunately, they have their asses hanging out in wedged up thongs and proceed to air hump every woman that comes within range of them. After this, they go to work and almost screw that up with their father, Kazemi (Dan Hedaya). Soon after, they get into the Roxbury, and It doesn't get much better than that. It took the brothers seven years to graduate high school, and they still live at home with their parents and share the same bedroom together. Steve seems to be the one who is the dumbest, but instead, he is clueless. Doug tries to be the brother in charge but flunks every time he opens his mouth and makes himself look dumber than Steve.
After the dreadful "Superstar," which starred Will Farrell as well, Molly Shannon returns as a wealthy annoying daddy's girl who is smitten with Steve. One can imagine why and it's not for his heart. The third act of the picture is a right-off with the brothers getting into a predictable fight and Doug moving into the guest house. From here we move on to engagement and a wedding and so on and so forth. Finally, the picture drags to a likely conclusion that leaves us exhausted. I don't think this movie set out to be as pathetic as it is but it never had a shot anyway at being kind or funny.