Wayne's World

Day 16/192-Wayne's World: Starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey

I am not sure if there is a film that I have seen more times than Wayne's World. Possibly Wayne's World 2. That is for so many reasons and I would defend this film to the hilt. While I will be the first to admit that Mike Myers has completely lost it (The Love Guru is my least favourite film of all time) here is an example of him in his prime, alongside the long forgotten Dana Carvey (who went on to make Master of Disguise, my number two least favourite film) he has managed to produce a film that, 18 years on, is still hilarious.

Wayne's World is a crappy public access TV show that idiot friends Wayne and Garth (Myers and Carvey) run from Wayne's parents' basement. When TV-Exec Benjamin Kane (Rob Lowe) spots them, he sees an opportunity to exploit them for advertising and ruin the magic of Wayne's World.

On top of that Wayne is fighting to keep his relationship with mega-hot bass player Cassandra alive amid increasing pressures from around them.



Not that any of that really matters. This is just an excuse to provide opportunities for Wayne and Garth to clown around, which they do to great effect. Such a quotable film with many things you will miss on first viewing. Even now about 10 years from when I first saw it, it yields rewards for watching again.

If I'm going to be negative about Wayne's World I'm going to say that it does look like they ran out of ideas in the last 10 minutes or so, but it's probably supposed to look like that in-keeping with the ridiculous style they have established so far.



I'm not sure in terms of the time that it came out what it did for comedy. But as far as I can tell many comedies have used this template since, some better, some worse, but Wayne's World is a classic example of how to do a buddy comedy. Get the right characters in there and let them tell jokes for the duration. It doesn't fall down Bill & Ted's pitfalls of having two idiots as main characters, Wayne and Garth are prone to rare moments of brilliance, it doesn't take the overly crude path of Jay and Silent Bob and that is why Wayne's World is a winner for me.

9/10