Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Stephen Surjik
Produced by Lorne Michaels
Screenplay by Mike Myers
Bonnie Turner
Terry Turner
Based on Wayne's World 
by Mike Myers
Starring
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography Francis Kenny
Edited by Malcolm Campbell
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • December 10, 1993 (1993-12-10)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $40 million
Box office $48.2 million[1]

Wayne's World 2 is a 1993 American comedy film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as hosts of a public-access television cable TV show in Aurora, Illinois. The film is the sequel to Wayne's World, which was adapted from a sketch on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Plot

Wayne and Garth now broadcast their Friday-night TV show from an abandoned factory in Aurora. After an Aerosmith concert, Wayne has a dream in which he meets Jim Morrison (Michael A. Nickles) and a "weird naked Indian" (Larry Sellers). Morrison convinces Wayne that his destiny is to organize and put on a big concert. Wayne and Garth dub the concert "Waynestock" and get to work by hiring Morrison's former roadie, Del Preston (Ralph Brown).They find that their early attempts to sign bands and sell tickets fall flat, and Wayne wonders if the whole thing was a good idea.

Meanwhile Wayne's girlfriend Cassandra has a new producer, Bobby Cahn (Christopher Walken), who slowly tries to pull her away from Wayne and Illinois. After Wayne admits spying on her due to his suspicion of Bobby's ulterior motives, Cassandra breaks off the relationship and hastily gets engaged to Bobby on the rebound. Garth meets a beautiful woman, Honey Hornée (Kim Basinger), at the laundromat, who attempts to manipulate Garth into killing her ex-husband. Garth eventually bails on the relationship.

Tickets are sold for Waynestock but no bands show up. Wayne departs the festival grounds so he can find Cassandra, leaving Garth to keep the rowdy crowd in check. Wayne travels to a church and breaks up Cassandra's wedding before escaping the ceremony with her. Meanwhile, Garth has stage fright during the concert. Upon returning to Waynestock, the bands still have not shown up. As in the first film, three endings occur.

During the middle of the end credits, after the concert is over and everyone has left, the weird naked Indian stands crying because the whole park is trashed (in a parody of the 1971 "Keep America Beautiful" "Crying Indian" campaign). Wayne and Garth tell him not to cry, they were planning on cleaning up all the trash. Wayne and Garth begin cleaning up the large park while the weird naked Indian watches.

Waynestock

Waynestock is held in Adlai Stevenson Memorial Park, in Aurora, Illinois. The acts that Wayne books include Crucial Taunt (Tia Carrere and band), Aerosmith, Rip Taylor, Pearl Jam, and Van Halen (the latter two do not actually appear in the film). Aerosmith performs "Shut Up and Dance" at the concert. Additionally, the Gin Blossoms and Nash Kato (of Urge Overkill) can be seen being escorted out of a limousine-length Mirthmobile (a stretched AMC Pacer) by the weird naked Indian as the closing credits begin.

Cast

Production

Penelope Spheeris, who directed the first film, was approached by Paramount to direct the sequel, but she declined immediately due to having problems with Myers during the making of the first film. She opted to direct another TV to big screen adaptation, The Beverly Hillbillies instead and was replaced by Stephen Surjik for the sequel. It wasn't until the release of the first Austin Powers film that Spheeris finally made peace with Myers.

Reception

Wayne's World 2 received mixed to positive reviews from critics.[2] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 60% "Fresh" rating, based on 43 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10, with the site's critical consensus reading, "The characters are still endearing, but the jokes in Wayne's World 2 are more hit-and-miss the second time around".[3]

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, and wrote that Wayne and Garth are "impossible to dislike".[4]

Box office

Although it was intended to be a Christmas season blockbuster, Wayne's World 2 was only moderately successful and did not receive the box office intake or positive fan reaction that the first film did. Its final North American gross was $48 million, slightly more than its $40 million production budget, but much less than the original film's gross of over $100 million. During its release, Wayne's World 2 also suffered severely due to competition from other holiday season blockbusters such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Schindler's List, and The Pelican Brief.[5]

Soundtrack

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wayne's World 2 (1993) – Daily Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ Tempest, Rone (September 11, 1992). "Wayne's World 2': It's Not as Good, but Still Worthy". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Wayne's World 2 (1993)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Ebert, Roger (December 10, 1993). "Wayne's World 2". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ Fox, David J. (December 13, 1993). "Wayne, Garth Party On at the Box Office Movies: `Wayne's World' sequel pulls in an estimated $14.2 million to push "Mrs. Doubtfire" into second place. "Sister Act 2" opens in third.". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 27, 2016.

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