Wayne's World (film)
Wayne's World is a 1992 comedy film starring Mike Myers
as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the cable access television
show Wayne's World in Aurora, Illinois. The film was adapted from a sketch of
the same name on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The film grossed US$121.6 million
in its theatrical run, placing it as the eighth highest grossing film of 1992
and the highest grossing movie ever based on a Saturday Night Live skit. It was
directed by Penelope Spheeris, with Myers co writing the script.
The film also featured Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray, Robert Patrick (spoofing his role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Ed O'Neill, Ione Skye, Chris Farley (in his first film role), Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.
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. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Wayne's World the 41st greatest comedy film of all time.
Tagline:You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl
Cast
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell
Dana Carvey - Garth Algar
Rob Lowe - Benjamin Kane
Tia Carrere - Cassandra
Brian
Doyle-Murray - Noah Vanderhoff
Lara Flynn Boyle - Stacy
Michael DeLuise - Alan
Dan Bell - Neil
Lee Tergesen
- Terry
Kurt Fuller - Russell Finley
Sean Gregory Sullivan - Phil
Colleen Camp - Mrs. Vanderhoff
Donna
Dixon - Dreamwoman
Frederick Coffin - Officer Koharski
Mike Hagerty - Davy (as Michael G. Hagerty)
Plot
Wayne Campbell (Myers) and Garth Algar (Carvey) are the hosts of Wayne's World, a local Saturday late-night cable-access program, where they ogle pictures of beautiful celebrity women, play air guitar and drums, and interview local people, indirectly making fun of them over the course of the interview. The program is popular with local viewers. One day Benjamin Caine (Lowe), a television station executive, is visiting a girlfriend who turns the TV to the show. When she tells him how many people watch the show, he instructs one of his producers Russell Finley (Kurt Fuller) to find out where the show is aired, telling him they may have an opportunity for a huge sponsorship opportunity.
Benjamin shows up next week in Wayne's basement and introduces himself after the show ends. He offers to buy the rights to the show for $10,000 ($5,000 each) and to keep Wayne and Garth on for what he describes as a "huge" salary. Following the purchase of the show, it is quickly "reinvented", complete with a weekly interview guaranteed to Noah Vanderhoff (Brian Doyle-Murray), the show's sponsor. The first reinvented show is also their last, as Wayne holds up a series of cards with phrases such as "Sphincter Boy" (pointing at Vanderhoff), "He blows goats-I have proof" and "This man has no penis", prompting Benjamin to call Wayne up to the control booth and fire him on the spot.
This, along with Wayne's blossoming relationship with hard rock bar band vocalist Cassandra (Tia Carrere); whose career Benjamin has also taken an interest in, leads to a rift forming between Wayne and Garth, which erupts after Wayne walks out on the show, leaving Garth to a bout of stage fright for the rest of the show. This surfaces in a bitter confrontation just off the runway at one of Chicago's two airports, where Garth is inaudibly arguing with Wayne (who presumably can hear him clearly) over the roar of a jet plane taking off overhead. The two separate, but later make up after Wayne makes up with Cassandra following an argument between them over Benjamin.
Cassandra and her band, Crucial Taunt, perform on Wayne's World, which Wayne has put back on the air, with hopes that record company executive Frankie Sharp (Frank DiLeo in a cameo role) will see her performance.
Wayne's World has multiple endings and anti-plot (the ridicule of common plot techniques). The movie provides two "alternate" endings - a "sad ending" and a "Scooby-Doo ending". These two endings are an alternative to the "Mega-Happy Ending". The sequel makes it clear that the "Mega-Happy Ending" is what actually occurred.
The Sad Ending begins with Frankie Sharp showing up in Wayne's basement and after the show, offers Cassandra a deal with his record company. The Sad Ending begins with Frankie Sharp showing up and telling Cassandra it's the "wrong time", following with a fire starting in Wayne's basement and him carrying Garth out of his house, to a presumably nuclear-devastated world with Wayne calling, "Why, God? Why?" Cassandra and Benjamin sip drinks on a tropical island, with Cassandra telling Benjamin that last night was the most incredible night of her life.
The Scooby-Doo ending begins with Frankie Sharp showing up again, but Wayne interrupts him by pulling a rubber mask off a restrained Benjamin, revealing him to be Old Man Withers (Carmen Filpi), who runs the haunted amusement park and frequents Stan Mikita's Donuts. Withers proclaims in Scooby-Doo fashion "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you snooping kids!"
A Wayne's World theme park
attraction was built and featured at the formerly-Paramount-owned theme parks
Kings Dominion and Carowinds. The Wayne's World-themed roller coaster, Hurler,
remains at both parks, but the Wayne's World section of Carowinds has been re-themed
Thrill Zone, and the Wayne's World section of Kings Dominion has been merged into
another area of the park known as The Grove.
Downtown Aurora was actually
shot in downtown Covina, California.
Wayne and Garth's hangout, Stan Mikita's
Donuts is named after the Chicago Blackhawks legend. This is most likely a reference
to Tim Hortons, a doughnut shop chain named started by Tim Horton, a Hall of Fame
player from the Toronto Maple Leafs (Mike Myers' favorite team).
Wayne and
Garth's dialogue, when lying on the hood of the car, had been improvised. Garth's
question about finding Bugs Bunny attractive provokes genuine laughter from Myers.
The opening scenes of the film feature TV ads for Menards, the Chia Pet, The
Clapper and Empire Carpets--all commonly seen on cable television in Chicago in
the early 1990s. Also, the Victory Auto Wreckers ad ("That old car might
be worth money!") is shown in Mr. Bigg's limo.
Rob Lowe's character introduces
himself as Benjamin Caine, but is listed in the credits as Benjamin Oliver. It
is a little known fact that this is not a continuity error but, instead a tribute
to producer Bernie Brillstein's son Michael's seventh grade best friend, Oliver
Benjamin[citation needed].
The commercial for Noah's Arcade that opens the
film contains footage of a prototype version of Sonic the Hedgehog playing in
the background, which is a Sega Genesis game, not an arcade game.
The statue
of cars on a large spike is named The "Spindle" and is located in Berwyn,
Illinois.
Robert Patrick reprises his role as the T-1000 from Terminator 2:
Judgement Day (he is credited as 'Bad Cop' in the credits). He appears late in
the film, pulling Wayne over on a police motorcycle. He shows Wayne a picture
of a child and asks, "Have you seen this boy?" Wayne screams and drives
off, and the T-1000 walks after him.
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