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Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
The Roxbury Guys, Steve and Doug Butabi, want to get into the best club in town, and also hope to open their own club.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Dan Hedaya, Molly Shannon, Richard GriecoComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
German: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
English, English SDH, French, German
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Director John Fortenberry's (Jury Duty) A Night at the Roxbury is the film adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch, reuniting the head bopping, skit starring duo of Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as they live their lives one beat at a time. And that's why the film was critically panned upon release: the movie rarely veers away from that central idea that these guys just move to the beat, their own beat, and the rest is just filler to get them to that next head bob. The film begins and ends with the brothers moving to the music and everything in between yields little deviation from their rhythmic tandem movements. But maybe the film was hit a little too hard. Sure, Roxbury is otherwise an empty vessel, but its leads are infectiously likeable, even if all of that nodding has jarred loose the few operating brain cells inside. The film's got a hip and happening score working in its favor and the beats alone are enough to pull the audience into the clashing worlds of SoCal glitz and glamour and the lovable buffoons who so desperately want to be a part of a social scene when they really, deep down, desperately just want to be part of one another.
Paramount brings A Night at the Roxbury to Blu-ray with a proficient 1080p transfer. There appears to be some scant signs of slight digital processing and sharpening. Grain doesn't look fully organic but the picture has certainly not been scrubbed of fine detail. What's here is solid enough, revealing good essential facial and clothing definition while holding tight to well defined environmental details, whether in a dark club interior or in a bright flower shop during the day. While a far cry from "perfectly filmic" and true Blu-ray beauty, the picture quality is more than passable as it is. It's also free of serious print blemish and encode flub. Colors are bold but not as vivid as one might expect. The clothes and club colors are loud but they're not leaping off the screen with the sort of intense saturation one might expect. Again, they're good, jut not great. The image does hold firm to solid black levels and well defined skin tones. There's room for improvement here, but chances are this is the best A Night at the Roxbury is gong to look for the foreseeable future.
A Night at the Roxbury dances onto Blu-ray with a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack. Like the video, the presentation is solid but leaves listeners feeling like there could be some more oomph, dazzle, and delight at work. Music is appropriately engaging and clear but not so deep and intense as the film really deserves. It's not timid, either -- spacing is great, clarity is strong, and volume is not low -- but as the film's lifeblood, and with so many terrific Dance beats in play, a little more jump would have greatly benefitted the presentation. As it is, the music is certainly adequate, just not of reference excellence. The track folds in some nice city and street ambience as applicable. Dialogue is clear and center positioned. It is always well prioritized for the duration, even when competing with intense club backgrounds and music.
This Blu-ray release of A Night at the Roxbury includes four featurettes, all of which are carryovers from previous home video releases. No DVD
or digital copies are included with purchase. This release does
not ship with a slipcover.
A Night at the Roxbury is no great film but it's underrated as a feel-good escape with a contagious beat and a couple of leads who play well off of one another, largely because they're both playing the same character. The film is more about the relationship they have with one another rather than the relationship they have with their hopes and dreams, and it works well enough, vapid as it may be, thanks to a compact runtime, great music, and enthusiastic performances. Paramount's Blu-ray includes solid video and audio presentations as well as a few supplements. Recommended.
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