Review of Wayne's World (1992)

Hello all! Sorry about the late post. I was not feeling well at all today and I had to postpone...posting.

Anywho, today is comedy Wednesday, and at first I had trouble coming up with a movie to review. Then I thought, hey, why not use my favorite comedy of all time? May sound biased, but I don't even care. What is this movie, you ask? Well, drum roll please...it's WAYNE'S WORLD!

This movie is great for so many reasons. But before I get to the pros and cons, let's go over a quick synopsis: Wayne's World, based on the Saturday Night Live skit, is a light-hearted comedy about two burn-out friends, Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) who host a public-access cable show called Wayne's World out of Wayne's parents' basement in Illinois. One day Benjamin, a slimy television executive, convinces them to sell the show and to let the executives and producers take over it. The show starts to lose its magic and fun, and the whole movie follows them in their quest to get their show back and get revenge on Benjamin. Hilarity ensues!

Pros first! Obviously.

1. Wayne and Garth are the most charming characters in the whole world. They are genuinely nice guys who just want the best for their friends. They're those burnout friends you had in high school that never went anywhere, but who are perfectly fine with that. They see the good in everything, and nothing stops them from getting their show back.

2. It's a family friendly comedy with mass appeal. It's not smart comedy, but it's not hit-you-over-the-head, fart jokes comedy. It's silly without feeling stupid. I've loved this movie since I was three years old, so there's some comedy for everyone.

3. The story is based on characters from a Saturday Night Live skit! How cool is that?

4. It's perfectly cast. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are seasoned comedy actors, and Rob Lowe is the perfect hateable, terrible, slimy executive who's just the worst kind of money and power hungry person. There's the always-partied-out, always-on-the-verge-of-puking guy who you only see sober once. There's the shady (and possibly murderous) coffee shop owner. So many priceless characters that you never forget.

5. The music in the movie is great! Alice Cooper, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the famous Bohemian Rhapsody-in-the-car scene, and the music from the band of Wayne's love interest in the movie, Crucial Taunt, is all such awesome and fun music because it's 80's and 90's hair metal.

6. There are a lot of celebrity cameos that everyone would love. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2), Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper's real band, Donna Dixon, Chris Farley, Meatloaf, and Ed O'Neill are just some of them.

7. 4 words: Dana Carvey's drum solo. Yeah. A REAL one.

8. All the 90's hair.

9. So. Many. Quoteables. ("Sha-wing!" "As if," "NOT!") Every scene - and I do mean ALL of them - is a classic quoteable scene.

Cons:

1. It's only an hour and a half long.

Okay, that's all the time I have for my review. I hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the review's emotional attachments to the subject matter.

...and that it didn't suck.