It takes someone with a big brain to come up with witty stupid lines where the joke will only make sense to people of certain kind of smarts. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey repeat their roles from the Saturday Night Live skits, a difficult task to bring to the big screen, and it's done with heart and purpose, showing Wayne and Garth beyond their stereotypical idiocy, and giving Myers and Carvey something to work with beyond the cliches of the sketch. They have a public access show which opportunistic producer Rob Lowe wants to exploit, his motives obvious from the start.
Various SNL stars make cameos, but outside of Myers and Carvey, thumbs up go to Lowe (a very funny villain), Tia Carrare as a Cantonese rock star whom Wayne falls for, Lara Flynn Boyle as his obsessive ex and Brian Doyle-Murray as the sponsor whom Wayne secretly ridicules on the show. Funny lines and situations, great music (highlighted by "Bohemian Rhapsody") and all of the Wayne's gang catch phrases. With other attempts to make movies out of SNL sketches flopping, this one's a surprisingly sweet film, parodying the early 90's and the media with gusto, and coming off as smarter than expected, the most surprising element of them all.
Various SNL stars make cameos, but outside of Myers and Carvey, thumbs up go to Lowe (a very funny villain), Tia Carrare as a Cantonese rock star whom Wayne falls for, Lara Flynn Boyle as his obsessive ex and Brian Doyle-Murray as the sponsor whom Wayne secretly ridicules on the show. Funny lines and situations, great music (highlighted by "Bohemian Rhapsody") and all of the Wayne's gang catch phrases. With other attempts to make movies out of SNL sketches flopping, this one's a surprisingly sweet film, parodying the early 90's and the media with gusto, and coming off as smarter than expected, the most surprising element of them all.