Myers at his freshest

Rating: 7/10 (13 April 2011)

Wayne's World marks the first cinematic outing for Mike Myers' trademark knowing mugging to the camera (see also Austin Powers and The Love Guru). On this occasion it is fresh (not that fresh, as Wayne's World had already been tried and tested on TV) and funny, perhaps because it is fresh.
Wayne's World also has the benefit of a good script, a fresh premise, well realised characters, and some very funny moments. It has Tia Carrere at her most decorative, Rob Lowe at his most dastardly, and Lara Flynn Boyle at her very best. And it has Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody on the soundtrack in a seminal moment, much imitated, and responsible for Queen's huge surge in popularity in the States in the early 90s.
Of, course, it also has Dana Carvey's mannered and desperately unfunny Garth, but you can't have everything.