Presumably we are supposed to empathise with their role as perennial outsiders, forever striving to make it beyond the Roxbury's velvet rope. Doug and Steve Butabi, on the other hand, have no believable existence outside this tired procession of set-ups and punchlines. Even for a British audience denied the opportunity of seeing the characters in their original milieu, Wayne and Garth were given enough personality for the humour to resonate. When the formula works, as it did with Penelope Spheeris' Wayne's World (with its pair of dim-witted losers embroiled in an insular music subculture), the secret lies in the instant recognisability of the protagonists. Despite some ferocious competition, it may also be the most profoundly unfunny. A Night at the Roxbury is simply the latest variation on the theme. In the tradition of the first SNL spin-off, The Blues Brothers, such vehicle are often little more than an extended riff based around characters already established on the small screen. Reviewĭespite the fitful nature of the results, a job on the venerable US sketch show Saturday Night Live has long been a golden tickets for comics seeking to transfer their talents to cinema. At the opening of their own club, Steve and Doug spend the evening with their new girlfriends: the policewoman and the telephonist. Steve leaves Emily the brothers track down Zadir, who becomes their business partner. At the wedding, Doug appears brandishing a tape recorder playing his and Steve's favourite club anthem. Distraught, the brothers argue Doug moves out of the room he shares with Steve and into the family's guest house.Įmily and Steve become engaged. Their conquests of the previous night abandon them. In the morning, they visit Zadir's offices to tell him their idea for a new club, but are ejected by his chauffeur. Inside, they share a table with the owner Mr Zadir, and are mistaken for businessmen by two women with whom they subsequently lose their virginity. En route home, television star Richard Grieco scrapes their car's bumper worried about litigation, he gets the Butabis into the club. That night, the brothers unsuccesfully attempt to bribe their way into the Roxbury. Steve and Doug spend the following day working at their father's shop, where Doug sweet-talks a female credit-control telephonist and Steve is pursued by neighbour Emily. Returning home, Steve is given a ticket by a policewoman with whom he immediately falls in love. Ardent clubbers Steve and Doug Butabi are refused entry to exclusive LA nightclub, the Roxbury. Our synopses give away the plot in full, including surprise twists.īeverly Hills.
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