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CibbuanoWayne's World
November 17th 2006 05:01
Another adolescent favourite of mine, and it still stands up to re-watching (so far). 'Wayne's World' launched the career of Mike Myers as an international movie-star and helped invent a whole new style of comedy, it's also very fast and funny.
Adapted from Mike Myers' and Dana Carvey's sketches on 'Saturday Night Live', 'Wayne's World' features the indelible characters of Wayne and Garth. Wayne and Garth run their own public-access television show from their basement, and happen upon fortune when they are discovered by a television exec (Rob Lowe). Amongst a series of misadventures and sly observations, including an Alice Cooper concert in Milkwaukee, Wayne and Garth come to realise that their television show is being exploited.
The plot isn't anything exciting, but that's not the point. 'Wayne's World' is a benchmark in post-modern pop-culture comedy. Along with 'The Simpsons' and 'Seinfeld', it set the tone for 90s comedy. It pokes fun at genre conventions and subverts characters (witness the friendly police officer), made wide use of self-parodying cameos (The Terminator T100, Alice Cooper) and brought to prominence a whole slew of catch-phrases ('not', 'we're not worthy'). It's originality and rapid-fire gags still hold up ten years down the track, and if anyone wanted to see what 'The Nineties' were like, this would be a great place to start.
Both Myers and Carvey give great comic performances, both having the good fortune of having perfected their characters prior to making the film. There's a whole host of memorable supporting characters, my favourite would have to be Ed O'Neill as the homicidal coffee-shop owner Glen. Also, Rob Lowe is suitably slimey in the role of the 'villain'.
There isn't much else to say. 'Wayne's World' is never dull, always on-sight when it comes to laughs, and generally, pretty damn hilarious.
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Comment by Keira
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Waynes world! party time! excellent!
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Nicole says she's never seen it.
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She needs to be educated.
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Maybe I am a mole?
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