Wayne Dobson - Great Party Tricks (DVD)

Advantages: Funny, clever, generation forming
Disadvantages: Thin plot

...proves the old adage "Less is more" – less structure, more comedy. Great. I guess there's only one thing left to say: "It's Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent!" *cue weird guitar noises*... Read review

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Advantages: Good film, made the way spoofs should be made
Disadvantages: None

...Wayne's World is a comedy starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey and is inspired by the "Wayne's World" skits that Myers and Carvey used to do on "Saturday Night Live". Myers and Carvey play Wayne and Garth, two slacker friends who run a TV show out of Wayne's parents' house, which Wayne still lives at. They mainly just sit around and talk about the two main things that interest them, music and women. They are both big heavy metal fans, and spend a lot of their time partying. The show is quite popular, even though it's only on public cable. It catches the eye of Ben Kane (Rob Lowe), a slimy TV executive who offers Wayne and Garth a deal to be on his TV network in Chicago and to be sponsored by Noah Vanderhoff (Brian Doyle-Murray). Meanwhile, Wayne falls in love with Cassandra, a female singer with a rock n' roll band. Unbeknownst to him... Read review

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Advantages: silly and amusing - good fun and great characters
Disadvantages: acting isn't the best (but who cares???)

...My flatmate had bought "Wayne's World", an old favourite of mine, on dvd a while ago and it has been sitting in the living room for a few weeks now, still in its wrapper, tempting me mercilessly. Finally, on Saturday night, I could stand it no longer, and I rushed across the room and ripped it from its shiny cellophane (I asked first, of course!), desperately in need of the laugh I knew Mike Myers and co could provide for me. And it didn't disappoint. --------------------------------------------------------------------- A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF "WAYNES WORLD" Wayne Campbell seems to have a charmed life. Okay, as he puts it himself, he has "an extensive collection of nametags and hairnets" - but he also has his own show on public access television, ably assisted by his bashful sidekick Garth. Everyone in their home town of Aurora... Read review

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