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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Wayne's World (1992)



Synopsis: Taken from the movie: “It’s two chimps on a davenport in somebody’s basement.”

Blurb From the VHS Jacket: “In the tradition of The Ten Commandments, Lawrence of Arabia and Gandhi comes a sweeping screen epic bursting with spectacle and drama...NOT!”

What Did I Learn?: Police brutality is funny when the victim is some smarmy producer who looks like Rob Lowe.

You Might Like This Movie If: You enjoy establishment humour that pretends to be something from the counterculture.

Really?: 1) So, Wayne gets to bang Tia Carrere as Lara Flynn-Boyle chases him around like a puppy dog? That's believable...NOT! 2) Somebody thought this videogame would sell like hotcakes.

Rating: Wayne’s World is basically a 95-minute Saturday Night Live skit. It has a few funny moments (I liked the Scooby Doo ending), but the over-used catchphrases get tiresome (“No Way! Way!”) while Wayne and Garth never once transcend their SNL personas to become real, authentic characters. How do they financially support themselves? They live in their parents’ basements, but the audience never gets to meet the Algars or the Campbells. Lame. 6/10 stars.  

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    Dude. I'm sure you felt differently when it came out - such a classic! Party on.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 10:48 AM

    That's a fair comment. There are plenty of films I liked when I was a kid/teenager (the Indiana Jones movies come to mind) which I no longer enjoy. And yes, I am biased.

    EES

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  3. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    This is one of those movies you thought was so funny when it first came out, but are vaguely embarrassed by, years later. You gotta love Mike Meyers, though.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 19, 2011 at 3:30 AM

    You might like this movie if you lived in Scarborough in the late 80s.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 19, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    I grew up in Bolton, Ontario in the late 1980s, so I have a pretty good idea about the film's origins. Wayne's World isn't a horrible movie, but I would have liked to have seen Wayne and Garth fleshed out into real characters. Instead, it's a 95-minute SNL skit. I would have liked to see more of the authentic late-1980s Scarborough (or Aurora Illinois) rather than a live-action cartoon.

    EES

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