Wayne's World DVD
Paramount Home Video
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Length: 94 minutes
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Year: (1992)
Britt Gillette's Wayne's World DVD Review
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl…
So begins the 90's cult comedy classic Wayne's World, the ingenious brainchild of Saturday Night Live standouts Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. The movie, born from a SNL skit of the same name, chronicles the lives of teenage party animals, Wayne Campbell (Myers) and Garth Algar (Carvey). Wayne and Garth are the stars of a local cable access TV show titled Wayne's World which is a big hit with their niche audience…
Wayne and Garth are perfectly happy delivering their popular TV show from Wayne's mom's basement via local cable access, when they're approached by the slick & sleazy TV executive Benjamin Kane (Rob Lowe). Benjamin offers Wayne and Garth a big contract to tape their show from his network studios so as to advertise Noah's Arcades, a chain of video arcades run by clueless founder Noah Vanderhoff (Brian Doyle-Murray).
En route to fame and fortune, Wayne meets and falls in love with rock star goddess Cassandra Wong (Tia Carrere). Meanwhile, Garth continues his unprofessed infatuation with his dream woman (Donna Dixon), a waitress at Glen Mikita's donut shop. Things are going great for Wayne and Garth when everything goes awry. Benjamin tries to change multiple aspects of the show, and following a Wayne and Benjamin shouting match, Garth is left to do the show by himself. Wayne and Garth try to quit, but they never read their contract and Benjamin owns the rights to their show.
Meanwhile, Wayne suspects that Benjamin is trying to steal away Cassandra. Benjamin puts together a video shoot for Cassandra and her band. Driving hundreds of miles to tell Cassandra how he feels, Wayne wins Cassandra over and the two flee the set of Benjamin's arranged video shoot. Wayne and Garth have the last laugh when they broadcast a show from their basement once again, featuring Cassandra and her band. The one man audience broadcast reaches its intended target - Mr. Big, a recording studio executive who gives Cassandra and her band a contract on the spot.
With guest appearances by Alice Cooper, Chris Farley, Ed O'Neill, and Meat Loaf, Wayne's World has the supporting cast to compliment Wayne and Garth's zany antics. The creative word plays of Myers and Carvey have since penetrated the everyday vernacular (NOT!), making Wayne's World a must see comedy given its place in early 1990s cultural history…
Britt Gillette
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Posted on 14 December 2004