Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2
Wayne's World 2 movie poster
Directed by	Stephen Surjik
Produced by	Lorne Michaels
Written by	Mike Myers Bonnie Turner Terry Turner
Based on	Wayne's World by Mike Myers
Starring	Mike Myers Dana Carvey Christopher Walken Tia Carrere Aerosmith
Music by	Carter Burwell
Cinematography	Francis Kenny
Editing by	Malcolm Campbell
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	December 10, 1993
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Box office	$48,197,805

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

Plot

Wayne and Garth now do their acclaimed Friday-night TV show in an abandoned doll factory in Aurora. At the end of the broadcast, Wayne, Garth, and his friends, head into the Mirthmobile, and off to an Aerosmith concert. After the band's performance, Wayne and Garth head backstage (thanks to backstage passes), and praise Aerosmith like they did to Alice Cooper in the previous film.

That night, Wayne has a dream in which he meets Jim Morrison (Michael A. Nickles) and a "weird naked Indian" (Larry Sellers), in which Morrison tells Wayne that his destiny is to organize and put on a big concert. In the morning, Garth arrives with a football phone, a swimsuit magazine and a Stanley Cup video. Wayne and Garth dub the concert "Waynestock" and get to work. Their early attempts to sign bands and sell tickets fall flat, however, and Wayne wonders if the whole thing was a good idea.

Wayne's girlfriend Cassandra, meanwhile, has a new producer, Bobby Cahn (Christopher Walken), who slowly tries to pull her away from Wayne (blocking calls to her in the process) and Illinois. After Wayne admits that he was spying on her, 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, and she quickly ropes him in with her charms. Eventually, it is revealed that Honey is manipulating Garth into killing her ex-husband, and Garth quickly bails on the relationship.

Back in the real world, tickets for Waynestock are finally selling, but no bands have shown up. Wrestling with what to do, Wayne departs the festival grounds so he can find Cassandra, leaving Garth to keep the rowdy crowd in check. In a parody to The Graduate, Wayne travels to a church and breaks up Cassandra's wedding before escaping the ceremony with her. Upon returning to Waynestock, the bands still have not shown up. Wayne and Garth consult Morrison, who said that no one will come. They turn around to go back to Waynestock and

• They lose their way, not knowing how to escape the desert dream sequence, and therefore presumably die of thirst (the sad ending).
• They drive their car to find the bands, but a helicopter corners them, so they drive their car off a cliff (the Thelma & Louise ending).
• The promised bands arrive and the whole event is a huge success (the happy ending).

Waynestock

In the movie, 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. 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 by the weird naked Indian as the closing credits begin.

Cast

Main Characters

• Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell
• Dana Carvey as Garth Algar
• Tia Carrere as Cassandra Wong
• Christopher Walken as Bobby Cahn
• Kevin Pollak as Jerry Segel
• Ralph Brown as Del Preston
• James Hong as Jeff Wong, Cassandra's father and martial arts expert
• Kim Basinger as Honey Hornée
• Jim Downey as the dubbed voice of Jeff Wong
• Chris Farley as Milton, an aimless friend of Wayne and Garth's
• Ed O'Neill as Glen
• Michael A. Nickles as Jim Morrison
• Larry Sellers as The Naked Indian
• Frank DiLeo as Frankie 'Mr. Big' Sharp
• Lee Tergesen as Terry, Wayne and Garth's bud
• Scott Coffey as a heavy metaller

Notable cameos

• Drew Barrymore as Bjergen Kjergen
• Olivia d'Abo as Betty Jo
• Charlton Heston as the "good actor" gas station attendant who replaces the "bad actor" Al Hansen
• Jay Leno as Himself
• Heather Locklear as Herself
• Ted McGinley as "Mr. Scream"
• Tim Meadows as Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Kevin Pollak as a county employee with "partial ocular albinism"
• Robert Smigel and Bob Odenkirk as nerds backstage at the concert
• Bobby Slayton as the Watermelon Guy
• Harry Shearer as "Handsome Dan"
• Rip Taylor as Himself
• Steven Tyler as Himself (lead singer of Aerosmith)
• Joe Perry as Himself (lead guitarist of Aerosmith)
• Brad Whitford as Himself (rhythm guitarist of Aerosmith)
• Tom Hamilton as Himself (bassist of Aerosmith)
• Joey Kramer as Himself (drummer of Aerosmith)
• Rich Fulcher as Garth's body double when they "travel to London"
• WPIG 95.7 as the Aurora radio station. The call sign, frequency and branding were based on the real life country-music outlet in Olean, New York.

Reception

The film received generally mixed reviews.^[1] "Wayne's World 2 maintains a "Fresh" score of 60% at Rotten Tomatoes.^[2] Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, and wrote that the characters of Wayne and Garth are "impossible to dislike."^[3]

Soundtrack

Main article: Wayne's World 2 (soundtrack)

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 as the first film did. Its final domestic gross was $48 million, slightly more than its $40 million budget, but a far cry from 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.^[4]

See also

Chicago portal

• Wayne's World
• Wayne's World (film)
• List of Saturday Night Live feature films

References

1. ^ "Wayne's World 2': It's Not as Good, but Still Worthy". The Los Angeles Times. 1992-09-11. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-11/news/mn-255_1_wayne-s-world. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
2. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waynes_world_2/
3. ^ "Wayne's World 2". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19931210/REVIEWS/312100303/1023. 
4. ^ "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. http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-13/entertainment/ca-1519_1_sister-act. Retrieved 2010-11-05. 

External links

• Wayne's World 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Wayne's World 2 at AllRovi