Wayne's World

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2007)

Both characters were first seen on Saturday Night Live, and their film is a fantastic teen comedy. I didn't realise that this was the first big film for Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell (three years before Austin Powers), and along with Dana Carvey as Garth Algar they are just fantastic. Wayne is the heavy metal fanatic, and Garth is his eccentric best friend, and both host a public cable network TV show filmed in Wayne's basement, called Wayne's World. The show catches the attention of Benjamin Kane (Rob Lowe) who wants it on his TV network, sponsored by billionaire and large arcade business owner Noah Vanderhoff (Brian Doyle-Murray). When they go Prime Time, Wayne and Garth get used to the big time, and Wayne falls in love with Chinese lead singer of a heavy metal band, Cassandra (True Lies' Tia Carrere). But Ben plans to ruin the show and steal Cassandra from Wayne if they do not get good ratings for their first episode, but they do not find it as fun as their original show. Also starring Meat Loaf, Robert Patrick as T-1000 (spoof) and Alice Cooper. The highlights of the film are the commercial imitations of products, e.g. Pepsi, Adidas and others, and the opening scene of the four friends singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Mike Myers was number 46 on The Comedians' Comedian, and the film was number 15 on The 50 Greatest Comedy Films. Very good!