The premise: The Butabi brothers work for their dad ( Dan Hedaya) in his artificial flower store. The sad thing about 'A Night at the Roxbury' is that the characters are in a one-joke movie, and they're the joke. Lorne Michaels seems determined to spin out every one of the 'SNL' characters into a feature-length movie-even if this one barely makes it to that length (the studio pegs it at 84 minutes but I didn't stay for the closing credits and was out in closer to 75). Peepers, the Missing Link, is very funny. Apart from that, I relate to the sketches basically as a waste of the talent of Kattan, who as Mr. I liked the first 60 seconds of the first Butabi brothers sketch I saw, because I found the head-snapping funny. It's based on the 'Saturday Night Live' skits about the Butabi brothers, Steve and Doug ( Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan), who snap their heads in unison with the music and each other, while trying out pick-up lines in spectacularly unlikely situations. ' 'A Night at the Roxbury' is such a movie. I approach it as an opportunity for meditation. Sometimes a movie is so witless that I abandon any attempt to think up clever lines for my review, and return in defeat to actually watching the film itself.

Kepesh of Chicago writes, 'Do you ever find yourself distracted during a screening by thoughts of the review you will later write? Distracted to the point of missing part of the film?' Sometimes it gets much worse than that, D.

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