Instead, they are obsessed with going to discos at every opportunity to dance and pick up girls. This leads to constant disappointment on his part and conflict between him and them, as they show zero inclination to go along with his wishes, or to do much of anything else that requires being grown-ups. So I’m not familiar with much of anything from that show after 1979 or so.)įerrell and Chris Kattan play two loser brothers whose father (Carla’s ex-husband Nick from Cheers, who was always a hoot in his infrequent appearances on that show) desperately wants them to grow up to take over the family business (an artificial flower shop).

(I probably watched 80% of the episodes of Saturday Night Live with the original cast, and have seen five hours or less cumulatively of all the decades of the show since then. I didn’t realize until I spent a few minutes reading about the film after the fact that it’s an expanded version of a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch.

Based on the modest amount I’ve seen of him, I’d probably rank him somewhere around the middle of comedians I’ve seen in my life, so a film with him in it is not by any means a “must-see” for me, but nor would I go out of my way to avoid it. It’s a Will Ferrell movie, and actually I don’t turn my nose up at Ferrell. The 1998 comedy A Night at the Roxbury is decidedly not a film I would have chosen to watch left to my own devices, but I watched it with a friend at her urging because it’s one of her favorite comedy movies ever.

Night at the roxbury movie