The track record of SNL-drawn movies is dire ("It's Pat," "Stuart Saves His Family," "Blues Brothers 2000"), and this one stands just a peg higher, as an amiable, if flyweight, di-version.
Kattan and Ferrell do their best to fill out the shallow Butabis.
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TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
Steve and Doug's story just isn't funny, and it would take far better writing than Kattan, Ferrell and Steve Koren can muster to make it less than an ordeal.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The sad thing about A Night at the Roxbury is that the characters are in a one-joke movie, and they're the joke.
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
One could criticize A Night at the Roxbury for being a comedy that provides not a single laugh. That would be too easy.
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L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
That Amy Heckerling produced and, supposedly, had an uncredited hand in scripting this turkey is the saddest thing I've heard all year.
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Film Threat
Film Threat
Its forced slapstick egregiously mugs the audience for laughs.
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ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so boring and pointless, that those faithful movie-goers who never walk out on a film have to find some alternative to watching the mind- numbing stupidity unfolding on the screen.