BEFORE: A busy Saturday today - we drove to N.J. for my wife's junior-high reunion (sponsored by Facebook) where it took me all day to realize that the 80's music being played was in alphabetical order (Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Hot For Teacher, I Want to Know What Love Is, Jump...) Then after a quick nap, I met my friend Amy at Barcade in Williamsburg, which is a place I've been trying to get to for years. They've got a great beer selection and two rows of classic arcade games, not just the expected like Robotron and Tempest, but also games like Moon Patrol, Tapper and Smash TV. It was a tough call for me between Ladybug and Qbert, but I've been bemoaning the fact that Qbert doesn't seem to be available for Playstation or GameCube, so I had to rock that game. Sure enough, my old cube-jumping patterns came back to me. Knowing that a bar with microbrews and a working Qbert machine is just a few subway stops away is very dangerous for me...
I'm not expecting much from a film based on a "Saturday Night Live" skit that was just about 2 idiots bobbing their heads in a club to the world's worst song...
THE PLOT: The Roxbury Guys, Steve and Doug Butabi, want to get into the best club in town, and also hope to open their own club...
AFTER: Yes, this was a fairly horrible film. They didn't really expand the characters or the plot beyond what was seen in the short skits on SNL - a fairly common fate, based on the recent reviews of "MacGruber".
This was probably Chris Kattan's largest screen role, before he became the Peter Scolari of the late 90's, and Will Ferrell's career took off...
And for the third film in a row, idiot slackers get rewarded for having pie-in-the-sky dreams of success. Just what message are you sending to America's youth, Will Ferrell?
Also starring Dan Hedaya, Molly Shannon, Loni Anderson, with cameos from Richard Grieco, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Clarke Duncan, Mark McKinney, Colin Quinn and Chazz Palminteri (uncredited as an oddball nightclub owner)
RATING: 3 out of 10 plastic plants
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