YMMV / A Night at the Roxbury

• Awesome Music: The soundtrack features a great selection of club music like "Insomnia" by Faithless and, of course, "What Is Love" by Haddaway. The whole album even fades from one track to another like a club mix.

• Harsher in Hindsight: Seeing the Butabi brothers fight and reconcile gets sadder when you realize that Will Ferrell ended his friendship with Chris Kattan after filming this movie because Kattan had an affair with producer Amy Heckerling.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Will Ferrell hits on Eva Mendes in this movie; 12 years later in The Other Guys, they play a married couple where Ferrell is repulsed by her (or at least pretends to be to mask his own insecurity for being married to such a beautiful woman).
• Ho Yay: When Doug and Steve finally find two girls willing to dance with them, they're more interested in dancing with each other, and have to be dragged apart by the girls.
• I Am Not Shazam: The characters are often referred to as the "Roxbury" brothers or guys, but it's the name of the club (as the title says). Their surname is "Butabi".
• Memetic Mutation:
  • WHAT IS LOVE?
  • The head-bob dance.
• Moment of Awesome: Doug interrupting the wedding. Don't you dare say you didn't start bobbing your head with him.
• One-Scene Wonder: Mark McKinney as the priest at Steve and Emily's wedding.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Eva Mendes as a bridesmaid during the wedding scene, one of her earliest film roles
  • Jennifer Coolidge before she was Stifler's Mom or Paulette the manicurist, she was Hottie Police Officer.
  • Michael Clarke Duncan as the bouncer; this film was released the same year as Armageddon (1998), but close enough to that film's production that Duncan was well down the cast list in this movie's credits. A year later, he officially broke out with The Green Mile and eventually re-teamed with Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• So Okay, It's Average: As with any Saturday Night Live-based movie not called The Blues Brothers or Wayne's World, this one was passed up by most critics as just trying to milk one joke for 90 minutes. Because it had at least a little more Character Development than the skits, it was eventually Vindicated by Cable and is now considered one of the better movies of its kind.
• Spiritual Successor: The Roxbury Guys are this to a previous Saturday Night Live duo, Wild and Crazy Guys.
• Squick: Steve sticking a Twizzler up Doug's nose, then chewing on it, then reconsidering it... then eating it anyways.
• Watch It for the Meme: Watch it to find out why people bob their heads like that whenever "What Is Love" comes on.

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