Only a few films based on Saturday Night Live skits have managed to successfully cross over to the big screen--the two best examples being The Blues Brothers and Wayne's Populace. Those films, as well as the skits upon which they were based, offered fully developed characters that were charismatic. Go into A Night At The Roxbury, a flash-in-the-pan comedy starring Chris Kattan and Will Farrell. The films' biggest problem is that it's based on a sketch that isn't all that laughable to start with. Kattan and Ferrell play the Butabi brothers, a couple of goosy club hoppers whose sterling aspiration is to open their have nightclub. This tedious flick runs out of steam in no time, offering very few funny moments worthy of either thespian. The scenes that do work pasquinade much bettor films such as Say Anything and Jerry Maguire. Kattan delivers a one note performance and is completely annoyance. Ferrell is surprisingly sympathetic but isn't given anything worthwhile to do. Both actors exhibit great zip and comic timing on SNL, merely are entirely wasted in this motion-picture show. Alas, Roxbury will link up It's Pat as unitary of those skits turned feature cinema that just now doesn't ignore it. Hopefully this testament serve as a moral to the folks at SNL. Possibly they'll catch taking a sketch that's funny for all of five seconds and trying to suffer it for ninety proceedings. They're sending people to the exits!
