Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with Richard Grieco gets them inside the swank Roxbury club. Mistaken for high rollers, they meet their dream women, Vivica and Cambi, and resolve to open a club of their own.
A Night at the Roxbury probably never had a shot at being funny anyway, but I don't think it planned to be pathetic. It's the first comedy I've attended where you feel that to laugh would be cruel to the characters.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
More schmaltzy than funny.
– Lisa Alspector,
Chicago Reader,
1 Mar 2007
rotten:
An amiable, if flyweight, diversion.
– Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
18 May 2008
rotten:
The lame-o aspects of the whole campy setup are still lame-o.