John Fortenberry directs Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon in this comedy following two dumb brothers who are into the LA nightclub scene but too obnoxious to realise how unwelcome they are in the clubs they frequent.

Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy have a lot to answer for. This is a one joke movie and British audiences weren’t around when the joke being rehashed had its moment in the zeitgeist. There’s very little to absorb here if you didn’t watch SNL in the Nineties. Molly Shannon is the glimmer of hope and then the story does her dirty and makes her the villain. What are laughs, baby don’t hurt me, baby don’t hurt me… no more.

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