Everyone's favorite headbangers from Aurora, Illinois, are back in this sequel to the 1992 hit comedy Wayne's World. The success of their TV show allows Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) to finally move out of their parents' homes, but now they have to figure out what to do with their lives. Wayne's girlfriend, up-and-coming rock star Cassandra (Tia Carrere), is enjoying a career boost thanks to her new manager Bobby Cohn (Christopher Walker), but Garth thinks that Bobby is more interested in her body than her place on the charts. Meanwhile, Wayne is visited in a dream by the late Jim Morrison (Michael A. Nickles), who convinces him to promote a massive rock festival, "Waynestock," featuring Aerosmith as headliners. Garth, on the other hand, is finally relieved of his pesky virginity by femme fatale Honey Hornee (Kim Basinger), though it turns out that Honey has a hidden agenda. Drew Barrymore, Harry Shearer, and Charlton Heston play cameo roles in Wayne's World 2, and Jay Leno, Rip Taylor, and Todd Rundgren appear as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Kim Basinger - Honey Hornee; Chris Farley - Milton; James Hong - Mr. Wong; Larry Sellers - Naked Indian; Ed O'Neill - Glen-Mikita's Manager; Olivia D'Abo - Betty Jo; Kevin Pollak - Jerry Segel; Drew Barrymore - Bjergen Kjergen; Aerosmith - Aerosmith; Dan Bell - Neil; Scott Coffey - Heavy Metaller; Frank di Leo - Mr. Big; Lance Edwards - Heavy Metaller; Richard Epper - Guy at Concert; George Foster - Lead Guitarist; Googy Gress - Gate Security Guy; Jay Leno - Himself; Joe Liss - Chicken Guy; Ron Litman - Tool Box DJ; Heather Locklear - Herself; Rob Lowe - Benjamin Kane; Ted McGinley - Mr. Scream; Michael A. Nickles - Jim Morrison; Joseph V. Perry - Aerosmith; Paul Raczkowski - Recording Engineer; Rip Taylor - Himself; Lee Tergesen - Terry; Steven Tyler - Aerosmith; Duke Valenti - Security Guy; Charlton Heston - Good Actor; Harry Shearer - Handsome Dan; Al Hansen - Bad Actor; Bob Larkin - Wedding Minister; Tim Meadows - Sammy Davis Jr.
Credit
Richard Yanez - Art Director, Lora Kennedy - Casting, Barnaby Thompson - Co-producer, Dinah Minot - Co-producer, Matt Earl Beesley - First Assistant Director, Stephen Surjik - Director, Malcolm Campbell - Editor, Howard W. Koch - Executive Producer, Carter Burwell - Composer (Music Score), Lynne Eagan - Makeup, Gregg Fonseca - Production Designer, Francis Kenny - Cinematographer, Leonard Michaels - Producer, Lorne Michaels - Producer, Stephanie J. Gordon - Set Designer, Jay R. Hart - Set Designer, Mike Myers - Screenwriter, Bonnie Turner - Screenwriter, Terry Turner - Screenwriter
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. Wayne then asks when Garth's football phone going to arrive, Morrison said it was sent to the wrong house and will arrive in the morning along with a swimsuit magazine and Stanley Cup video. The next morning, Garth showed up with the phone, magazine and video, which convinces Wayne to put on the show. Wayne and Garth dub the concert "Waynestock" and get to work, by, firstly, at Morrison's request, to hire his former roadie, Del Preston (Ralph Brown), who, surprisingly had the same dream as Wayne. 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. As in the first film, three endings occur.
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).
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]
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]
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