Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations
Sean Sullivan
- Phil
- (as Sean Gregory Sullivan)
Mike Hagerty
- Davy
- (as Michael G. Hagerty)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody" nearly didn't make it into the film. Mike Myers desperately wanted it, but Paramount and film's producer, Lorne Michaels, opposed. Paramount didn't want the song because the rights were too expensive. While Lorne Michaels didn't want the song because he wanted something more current and that song was almost twenty years old at that point. He instead wanted Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle". Myers threatened to quit the production if he didn't get what he wanted, and eventually they all agreed.
- Quotes
Wayne Campbell: So, do you come to Milwaukee often?
Alice Cooper: Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans.
Pete: In fact, isn't "Milwaukee" an Indian name?
Alice Cooper: Yes, Pete, it is. Actually, it's pronounced "mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land."
Wayne Campbell: I was not aware of that.
- Crazy creditsA brownie recipe is given in the credits.
- Alternate versionsWhen the movie premiered on Kiwi television in 1995, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is briefly heard in the scene which Benjamin and Russell discuss with Noah Vanderhoff about sponsoring Wayne's World which Vanderhoff accepts when Benjamin convinces him by suggesting that he has a regular guest spot on the show.
- SoundtracksWayne's World Theme
Written by Mike Myers & G.E. Smith
Featured review
20 years old—which makes me middle-aged (why, God, why?).
Wayne's World—which it's hard to believe is two decades old this year—still provides me with a good time, Mike Meyers' unique brand of surreal humour still managing to tickle my ribs, the music still causing my head to bang (only perhaps not quite as hard), and Tia Carrere still making me wanna go 'Schwing!' . I don't know how much of this enjoyment is down to nostalgia—I was a metal/heavy rock fan in my twenties when I first saw the film—but my kids seem to enjoy its random, scatter-shot craziness just as much as I do, despite not understanding many of the 90s cultural references (and, thankfully, some of the more 'adult' humour).
7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for being able to whisk me back to a time when torn jeans, mullets and rock music ruled (I listen to BBC Radio 1 these days and I silently weep for the modern generation).
7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for being able to whisk me back to a time when torn jeans, mullets and rock music ruled (I listen to BBC Radio 1 these days and I silently weep for the modern generation).
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- BA_Harrison
- Apr 9, 2012
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $121,697,323
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,122,710
- Feb 17, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $183,097,323
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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