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THE FILM:
Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan star in yet another Saturday Night Live skit turned into a feature film and this time, it's a nightmare of not funny. The two star as the brothers Butabi, two losers who try to pick up girls at clubs each and every week on Saturday Night Live. As a skit that lasts a few minutes, I laughed occasionally as the two brothers grooved to the music on the show, but that was a few minutes. This is 90 very long minutes.
The skit has been opened up into a whole movie, giving these two characters a job( they work for their father's fake flower shop) and here, they spentd the movie trying to fit in at the famous Roxbury club in the LA. They get in only after being in a car accident with formerly famous actor Richard Grieco. There's even a really embarassing cameo by Chazz Palmentari. All sorts of fun stuff.
Occasionally, I did laugh. I'll admit it. There were one or two moments during the film where Kattan and Ferrell were able to wring a few laughs out of this rather tired material. The story involves the two brothers trying to start their own nightclub but after a rather short while, I couldn't care less. The movie gets far too repetitive too quickly and runs out of any interesting material very fast.
A few laughs here and there, but overall, just not very funny.
THE DVD:
VIDEO QUALITY:A rather average looking transfer for a rather stupid movie. Images generally look clear on this non-anamorphic transfer and colors, for the most part, are enjoyable and vibrant. There are a few instances of small artifacts throughout, but nothing that's incredibly distacting. Contrast and color saturation are good, but not great. Images are acceptable in terms of sharpness and clarity, especially during the daylight scenes. Flesh tones are accurately rendered and the various neon lights and tones in the club scenes are picked up and rendered rather nicely. In terms of the work Paramount does, this is fairly good compared to their other transfers recently. Still, an anamorphic transfer would have improved the general quality. The image is letterboxed at 1.85:1.
AUDIO QUALITY: Audio quality is generally enjoyable. Overall though, the sound mix generally consists of playing "What Is Love" or another various techno song over and over again. There isn't much in the way of action or anything like that in this mainly dialogue driven film. The music generally does sound pretty good throughout, especially during the club scenes at the Roxbury where it really sounds full and lively with a few nice instances of bass. Occasionally during these nightclub scenes, the dialogue gets a little buried. Other than that, the dialogue tends to sound slightly flat. But with dialogue like this, who cares really. Again, the songs sound very good, but there's not much else of interest here. An isolated score would be really nice so viewers could listen to the songs and forget about the dialogue.
MENUS: Menus of the very basic Paramount variety with no animation or much creativity.
EXTRAS: The trailer. That's it, that's all.
OVERALL:
GRADES:
The Film:65/D = (325/500 possible points)
Video: 88/B = (352/400 possible points)
Audio: 89/B = (356/400 possible points)
Extras: 65/D = (195/300 possible points)
Value: 65/D = (195/300 possible points)
Menus: 65/D = (130/200 possible points)
Presentation: 76.75/C = (76.25/100 possible points)
TOTAL POINTS:1629.75/2200
Overall:74.07%/C
Recommendation: Not even worth a rental.
