Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Myth #1: Ballet is boring. Here is the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. Demetrius loves Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia's dad, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander flee. Oberon, who is fighting with Titania for a child, orders Puck to use a magic flower to make Demetrius love Helena...
...praise for this film falls heavily on the director, Paul Joanou. The movie's early plot moves very slowly. As the story progresses, the pace gradually increases, paralleled by the swelling intensity of the music and acting. By the final scene of the movie, the suspense and drama have reached their height, leaving everyone gripping his or her seat...
...major problem is the slow beginning. One must be awake to appreciate the rapid twists and turns of the second half of the movie, but the absence of plot in the beginning, added to lackluster dialogue, works like a strong sedative...
Wayne's World encompasses every facet of Wayne (Mike Meyers) and Garth's (Dana Carvey) personality, making it a pleasure for SNL fans. Silly, yes, but unlike other meaningless comedies which possess feeble skeletons for a plot, Wayne's World boats no plot to begin with and does not attempt to simulate one. Knowing that the Wayne's World skits on Saturday nights are one of the last bastions of quality on the show, the makers of Wayne's World attempt to stretch a funny but plot-less skit into a movie...
Though barely a semblance of a plot emerges, Wayne's World seems like the movie prototype of witty one-liners that made "Saturday Night Live" famous. In short, think of every good line from the "Wayne's World" skits on SNL, throw them randomly together in a screenplay, and you've got Wayne's World, the movie...