Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Reviews
From Amazon.co.uk
Thanks to Mike Myers' wonderfully rude, lowbrow humour and his full-bodied understanding of who his character is, Wayne's World proved to be that rare thing: a successful transition of a Saturday Night Live sketch to the big screen. Wayne Campbell (Myers) and his nerdy pal Garth (Dana Carvey) are teens who live at home and have their own low-rent cable-access show in Aurora, Illinios, in which they celebrate their favourite female film stars and heavy-metal bands. When a Chicago TV station smells a potential youth-audience ratings hit, the station's weasely executive (Rob Lowe) tries to co-opt the show--and steal Wayne's new rock 'n' roll girlfriend (Tia Carrere) at the same time. Like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure before it (and the later Detroit Rock City), this is a film that affectionately parodies and celebrates slacker teenage culture. It's also filled with all kinds of knowing spoofs of film conventions, from Wayne talking to the camera (while forbidding other characters to do so) and hilariously self-conscious product placements, to labelling a moment a "Gratuitous Sex Scene". Dumb yet clever--and very funny. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
Product Description
DVD Special Features:
Commentary by Director Penelope Spheeris
Cast and Crew Interviews
Theatrical Trailer
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, 16:9 version
Language: English Dolby 5.1; German Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, English for the hearing impaired
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Long before the world ever heard of Austin Powers, Mike Myers was infusing pop culture with the catch phrases and wild doings of Wayne Campbell and hastening the move of multiple Saturday Night Live characters to the big screen over the course of succeeding years. Wayne and his trusty sidekick Garth raked up at the box office and left us with a classic comedy that will be making people laugh for years to come. Aside from all the Wayne-isms and Garth-isms, this movie changed forever the way we listen to a number of classic rock songs.
Okay - let's review. Wayne lives in his parents' basement, but it's okay because he and his buddy Garth have their very own public access show on their local cable station in Aurora, Illinois. Wayne thinks his dream of doing Wayne's World for a living (and thus escaping from the world of name tags and hair nets) has come true when he gets an offer to do the show on a Chicago TV station, but there's a certain matter with the fine print. Will Wayne sell out? Yeah. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
Myers and Carvey take their SNL trademark routines as far as they can, going a little too far once or twice (as with the Scooby Doo and Mega-happy endings - although they did make possible the much-appreciated Tia Carrere bikini scene), and it's not hard to see why: Wayne's World was the most popular SNL skit for a good two to three years running. The film has a surprising number of familiar faces: besides the aforementioned Tia Carrere, you get Rob Lowe (fresh off a certain little infamous home movie), Brian Doyle-Murray, Ed O'Neill, Lara Flynn Boyle, Donna Dixon, and - making cameo appearances - Chris Farley, Meatloaf, and Alice Cooper. Of course, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey take center stage at all times.
... Read more ›6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
The comedy genious, Mike Myers is superb once again in this classic comedy.Wayne and Garth have a cable access show and are underground heroes in there hometown. Things are going well until the pair decide to "sell-out" and things start to go wrong. Full of stereotypes, cheesy jokes and one-liners. The more you watch this film, the more you love it. Hidden jokes and special guest cameo's make this film offer something everytme you watch it. Truly a masterpiece.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By mrdarker
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Its great to find this import of wayne's world is region free. Picture is good and so is the sound. maybe not worth upgrading from dvd.
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought this for myself to watch on my birthday. Very basic packaging with no accompanying booklet, but a nice retro cover (the original film poster I think) Great quality DVD with some fun extras such as the usually commentaries and some interesting cast and crew interviews including Rob Lowe, Mike Myers and Penelope Spheeris. This isn't the product in the picture as it doesn't have the big ugly price sticker on the case, which I was pleased about.
By ARC.
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Banging film. Just what you'd expect from these guys if you haven't already seen the film! Top notch, laugh out loud funny film.
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
At £3 it was very inexpensive but we all had fun watching this old classic film which is still hilarious. Arrived very quickly
By Panamuga
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's Wayne's World, what can I say?!! If you've seen it then you'll know what I'm talking about. If you haven't then watch it and you will. If you don't - you're not worthy...
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Great movie if you want totally mindless humour. Definitely one of the best films to come out of the nineties, although I daresay that isn't that a great accolade.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
›
Go to Amazon.com to see all 187 reviews
4.6 out of 5 stars
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
LE film culte dans sa meilleure version
Si une remasterisation aurait bénéficié au traitement de l'image, ici à peine meilleur qu'une version DVD, cette version à l'avantage d'offrir en... Read more
Published 1 month ago by beetle
1.0 out of 5 stars
World
I don't think this movie is trully very brilliant. It is not as good as austin powers or the sequel
I don't recommend this movie.
I don't recommend this movie.
Published 3 months ago by MikeD
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Film
Excellent Mike Myers film, really funny!
Some fabulous quotes...If she were a babe..she'd be Babraham Lincoln! Shwing!!!
Good performance from Tia Carrera too
Some fabulous quotes...If she were a babe..she'd be Babraham Lincoln! Shwing!!!
Good performance from Tia Carrera too
Published 5 months ago by JoJo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cult Classic!
As a middle-aged lover of world and art-house cinema, the lovably goofy Waynes World might seem an odd one for me to give five stars to. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Tim Kidner
4.0 out of 5 stars
A classic
Okay, it's nearly twenty years old now and can perhaps be considered a classic, there are perhaps a couple of parts that haven't aged as well as others but the film is still funny... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. G. P. Skinner
2.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE YOU TIA, BUT PREFER RELIC HUNTER>
I suppose the iconic part(NOT) of this film is when they are in the car listening to 'Bohemian Rapsody' by Queen. Read more
Published 23 months ago by James Wyatt
3.0 out of 5 stars
not bad, but
The first time i saw this
film i could not stop laughing, but when
i saw it for the second time, it hardly made
me giggle at all, don,t know way.
film i could not stop laughing, but when
i saw it for the second time, it hardly made
me giggle at all, don,t know way.
Published on 15 Jan 2010
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
