Revisiting Wayne’s World, A Rock’n’Roll Party That Still Feels Familiar
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pitchfork.comIn our new weekly series, we’re revisiting some of our favorite music movies—from artist docs and concert films to biopics and fictional fantasies—that are available to stream or rent digitally.
Spoilers ahead. As a test audience settled in to watch a rough cut of Wayne’s World, the movie’s star and lead writer Mike Myers doubled over in anxiety. “I thought it was awful,” he recalled years later. “I was inconsolable.” The 1992 adaptation of Myers’ popular Saturday Night Live sketch extended his character’s catchphrases and carefree, rock-star-worshipping ethos for 90 minutes.
It was the first film spun off from the show since 1980’s The Blues Brothers, and Myers feared it might be the last. Instead, Wayne’s World was an immediate hit.
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