Most of these bands had as much longevity as the American rip-offs of the other 60s British Invasion, the James Bond films. We hear the tune many more times, and it sounds emptier and slicker every time, as Hanks means it to. Over and over and over. Hanks is shrewd to chart the band s downfall by following the mutation of their one hit from scrappy rock to processed cheese. He s also good at touching on The Wonders inner tensions without letting those tensions usurp the movie.
Hanks looks pasty and a little reptilian here.
When he plays a scene with Tom Everett Scott, who s a ringer for Hanks circa Bachelor Party , Hanks squints his eyes and sounds rather weaselly. At the end, after the band s disintegration, Faye tells Guy, This all wouldn t have happened if not for you. And I mean that in a good way.