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"...ROXBURY stands to offer some much-needed good cheer..." 10/01/1998 p.29New York Times
"...Strangely lovable..." 10/02/1998 p.E20 Total Film
"...It delivers its fair share of laughs..." 10/01/1999 p.99 Variety 8 of 10
One of the few reliably funny recurrent skits on "Saturday Night Live" in recent years has had Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as two seemingly coke-addicted, desperately "hip" losers who trawl through Manhattan clubland, rebuffed over and over by all womankind. Of course, a three-minute sketch is one thing, a feature another. 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...Pacing is tight, and the aptly disco-tawdry saturated colors in lensing and design work are punched up to intended gaudy effect. For the record, director John Fortenberry ("Jury Duty") replaced original helmer Peter Markle after two weeks' shooting. Also, the titular club on the Sunset Strip has since gone the way of the Imperial Gardens and the Players Club before it at the same location, and is now a Japanese eatery. - Dennis Harvey
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