You watch Roxbury when you are looking for something meaningless to watch and want to bob your head to the side while listening to Haddaway’s “What is love”.Few could argue that Will Ferrell hasn’t made his mark on the comedy world, starting with Lorne Michaels casting him for Saturday Night Live. This movie is not about substance, and that’s just it. What makes them go out to clubs every night and treat women so poorly? Perhaps there were many people who watched the sketches and wondered whether these guys have a back story. It became one of those movies that’s so bad that you watch it to find out just how bad it is. The rule of thumb is that generally the gross has to be double the production budget before the movie is considered to have made money(considering other costs, and that the box office gross is split several ways before it gets to the production company).īut even though $30M at the box office is great, I’m sure the goal wasn’t to almost break even. If I am to believe the internet, the production budget was $17M and the box office gross was $30M. Here’s the thing – it actually almost broke even. It couldn’t possibly be a box office disaster like It’s Pat or Stuart Saves His Family.” “Maybe this will be another Wayne’s World? I know that Tina Fey was on the SNL writing staff at the time and I’m sure she immediately rolled her eyes.īut let’s give Lorne the benefit of the doubt for a moment. So what I want to know is how the success of a 3 minute SNL sketch, where the characters have almost zero dialogue, makes Lorne Michaels walk into a room and say: “Let’s make this into a feature film!” The Jim Carrey sketch was probably the most elaborate, which had them end up in a home for the aged, with Jim Carrey making out with someone twice his age at the end of the night. So they did it a few times, and even added Jim Carrey and other hosts. They are not very good at it and are probably crossing several lines with their aggressive hump dancing, but it was funny. They don’t say much and they just want to dance and maybe hookup with someone. When Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan did the Roxbury nightclub sketch on SNL, I thought it was great. I used to call these posts movie reviews, but they are more like rants. How many TOTAL movies has Will Ferrell been in? Who knows, and who cares? It’s not just the title of this series, it’s also true. Welcome to my series of posts called “Will Ferrell Has Been in at Least 25 Movies Since 1997”.

Will ferrell night at the roxbury snl