Yeah, it's one SNL skit stretched out to an hour and a half, but twenty years later it is still funny. It is dated. Lots of people will not know who Richard Grieco is or anything about "Twenty One Jump Street", and why are those people talking into bricks? but the human element is still recognizable and therefore funny.
You have two very childish geeky brothers close in age and aspirations - they want to own their own club - but they have a dad (Dan Hedaya) who is completely unhappy with them and their lack of interest in his business and what he hopes will be their business someday - an artificial flower shop in Beverly Hills.
The Butabi brothers think that they are much cooler than they really are, would starve if not for dad's wealth, and go out every night in hope of getting into an exclusive club - the Roxbury. The bouncer is having none of it. Then one night they get rear ended by Richard Grieco, and to avoid a possible lawsuit he gets them into the Roxbury. The plot takes it from there.
What are the human elements that are familiar? Two guys well into their twenties trying to hide their lack of sexual experience, and falling for two party girls who would not give them the time of day if not for who they think they are - rich guys with connections. A man with lots of wealth and business savvy actually liking these two guys who have nothing going for them that anybody else can see. A dad who is particularly angry with one son maybe because he reminds him of himself at that age. And a girl who chases after the other son because she knows she can manipulate him into marriage and unite two empires - her dad's lamp store and the Butabis' flower shop.
I have no idea how one fake flower shop could make Mr. Butabi that rich, but it is still funny after all of these years. And the soundtrack is to die for. It's too bad Hollywood is so broken these days that they just can't make silly movies whose entire point is just plain fun.
With Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as the clueless and close-as-twins Butabi brothers, Dan Hedaya as the constantly yelling father, Loni Anderson as the unconditionally loving mom who has a permanent scaffold built around her for all of the plastic surgery she gets, and Molly Shannon as the aggressive and mercenary girl chasing after Ferrell's character, sometimes literally.
You have two very childish geeky brothers close in age and aspirations - they want to own their own club - but they have a dad (Dan Hedaya) who is completely unhappy with them and their lack of interest in his business and what he hopes will be their business someday - an artificial flower shop in Beverly Hills.
The Butabi brothers think that they are much cooler than they really are, would starve if not for dad's wealth, and go out every night in hope of getting into an exclusive club - the Roxbury. The bouncer is having none of it. Then one night they get rear ended by Richard Grieco, and to avoid a possible lawsuit he gets them into the Roxbury. The plot takes it from there.
What are the human elements that are familiar? Two guys well into their twenties trying to hide their lack of sexual experience, and falling for two party girls who would not give them the time of day if not for who they think they are - rich guys with connections. A man with lots of wealth and business savvy actually liking these two guys who have nothing going for them that anybody else can see. A dad who is particularly angry with one son maybe because he reminds him of himself at that age. And a girl who chases after the other son because she knows she can manipulate him into marriage and unite two empires - her dad's lamp store and the Butabis' flower shop.
I have no idea how one fake flower shop could make Mr. Butabi that rich, but it is still funny after all of these years. And the soundtrack is to die for. It's too bad Hollywood is so broken these days that they just can't make silly movies whose entire point is just plain fun.
With Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as the clueless and close-as-twins Butabi brothers, Dan Hedaya as the constantly yelling father, Loni Anderson as the unconditionally loving mom who has a permanent scaffold built around her for all of the plastic surgery she gets, and Molly Shannon as the aggressive and mercenary girl chasing after Ferrell's character, sometimes literally.