Wayne's World
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| Wayne's World | |
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| Directed by | Penelope Spheeris |
| Written by | Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner |
| Starring | Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere |
| Produced by | Lorne Michaels |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date | February 14, 1992 |
| Runtime | 95 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20,000,000 |
| IMDb page | |
Wayne's World is a 1992 comedy film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth, hosts of a cable access television show from Aurora, Illinois. The movie was adapted from a popular skit of the same name on NBC's Saturday Night Live. It was directed by Penelope Spheeris and also featured Rob Lowe and Tia Carrere.
Wayne and Garth's hobbies included playing street hockey, hanging out at Stan Mikita's doughnut shop (likely a sly in-joke on Tim Hortons by Canadian Myers), avoiding psycho hose beasts, and catching hot local bands at "Gas Works", a hard rock club in Aurora. (Gas Works was also a Canadian in-joke; it was the name of a real Toronto live music nightclub in the late 1970s and early 1980s which primarily booked hard rock bands.)
The movie was filled with pop culture references and also started a few. Catch phrases like "Not!" and "Excellent!" aided the slacker lingo of Generation X as Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure did in 1989. Its multiple endings, antiplot (the ridicule of common plot techniques), and the use of the camera as a character have been noted in film studies. The use of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the film propelled the song to #2 in Billboard singles charts nearly 20 years after its first release.
The soundtrack album reached number one in the Billboard album charts.
Wayne's World received mostly positive reviews upon release and was commercially successful (unlike many Saturday Night Live-based films). It was followed by Wayne's World 2.
Wayne's World was co-written by Mike Myers. His only other screen co-writing credits are for his Austin Powers films.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Wayne's World the 41st greatest comedy film of all time.
