Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Stars: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/
Watched online, good print.
30 songs in the Soundtracks; this earns its + for using Bohemian Rhapsody. Note: per IMDb, this film wrapped production in Sept'91; Freddie died in Nov'91.
TC is the frontwoman for a rock band, hence the Music tag, and MM does seem to play guitar, DC drums, but neither are in a band.
This is less bad than a Bill & Ted Adventure/Journey, but only marginally.
RL is an agent/adman who signs MM & DC to a contract taking the name & concept of their cable access show to become the shill for a video arcade millionaire. RL's connection to MM leads him to meet TC, so he signs her to a video production deal. Note that TC's band does mostly covers, maybe all covers and I just don't recognize some of the songs.
RL pays the boys $5k each, so it's not a total rip-off, and there was no high pressure to get them to sign a bad contract. The issue seems just to be the commercialization of Wayne's World into a slick production that caters to its sponsor. Quel dommage. But they're keeping things light to be a comedy.
So big shrug, and prior low rating from me (5 from Netflix days musta been a 2/5?) To be honest, I don't remember liking the Wayne's World skits from SNL either.
On the other hand, 128k+ IMDb users rate this 7.0. Oh well.
Paramount, dir. Spheeris; 5+
