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...wows are wafting through Hollywood. Wayne's World, the whimsical but relevant movie expanded from a recurring bit on TV's Saturday Night Live, reeled in an impressive -- no, an excellent -- $18 million in its opening weekend. Not since The Blues Brothers, a 1980 movie spun off from SNL characters, has a TV skit provided the cue for such a quick movie moneymaker. But The Blues Brothers' tab ran a chunky $30 million; Wayne's World cost less than $15 million and reaped lots of cheap promotion with an MTV special. For an industry eager to trim the bloat...
...kids wasting time creatively. "It's about two friends who have nothing but can make things fun," says the film's director, Penelope Spheeris. "Kids see this and say, 'O.K., I don't have much, but I can still have a good time.' " Lorne Michaels, the producer of both SNL and WW, finds that the movie "resonates for kids who came of age in the '70s. It's their movie the way American Graffiti belonged to people who grew...
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...
This, of course, implies that any non-SNL watchers should beware; most of the lines are funny for only two reasons: A They are either the expected Wayne-isms (e.g. Not, sphincter, schwing I'm not worthy, etc.) or B. They are extensions of the lovable characters of Wayne and Garth that only fans can appreciate (Garth scratching a car in a body shop with an electric screw driver, or their car named the Mirthmobile). Basically, Wayne's World has been tailor-made for devoted SNL followers...
There probably will be those who argue that Wayne's World evokes laughter the most only in five minute segments on Saturday nights--but unless you anticipate the great awakening of Lorne Michaels in the fashions of his old SNL episodes, Wayne's World gives the audience a small enough dosage so that it still possesses its potency, yet is sufficient to prevent anyone from asking for more...