Steve Butabi: Will Ferrell
Doug Butabi: Chris Kattan
Hottie Cop: Jennifer Coolidge
Richard Grieco: Himself
Emily Sanderson: Molly Shannon
Credit Vixen: Meredith Scott Lynn
Producers: Lorne Michaels & Amy Heckerling
Director: Jon Fortenberry
Writers: Steve Koren, Will Ferrell & Chris Kattan |
Anyone who is currently doing the nightclub scene - and all those who can remember - will immediately recogise the Butabi Brothers. Steve and Doug are the sort of guys you pray will never ask you to dance. Dressed cool, complete with sideburns, shiny, colourful shirts, gold chains and swagger, they are all surface with no money, no real style, and even less experience. They think they're irresistible, but the bouncer at The Roxbury, the club to be seen at, immediately recognises them as the losers they are. When they try to fast talk their way into the club, he bounces them straight to the end of the line. Their names are not on the list.
Later the same night an accident sees the brothers inside the Roxbury as guests of the coolest dude they could imagine - Richard Grieco of "21 Jump Street" fame, and planning to do a deal with the club's owner. And, what's more, two beautiful women are chasing them. They are in for the night of their lives, but will they still like each other in the morning?
The Butabi Brothers are fleshed out characters from one of the most popular acts on American TV's "Saturday Night Live" - The Roxbury Guys, the "we're so cool, head-bobbing night clubbers" created by Will Ferrell and Christ Kattan.
Although you might avoid Steve and Doug like the plague at a club you can't help but like them on the screen - they are so incredibly optimistic, so irrepressibly persistent in pursuing their goal of proving themselves, as men and entrepreneurs. Not for them the life of their father with his fake flower shop, and his plans to marry Steve off to Emily the daughter of the owner of the lamp shop next door and create a brilliant new venture - a lamps and plants business! They have bigger ideas!
Produced by Lorne Michaels & Amy Heckerling of "Clueless" fame, "A Night at the Roxbury" may not be the greatest movie of all time but it is an energetic and fun comedy. Everything is over the top kitsch in this good hearted and funny send up of the games people play all put to a bobby dance score.
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