Wayne's World - PG-13

Incredibly lowbrow but many teens will love it.

Rating: PG-13 for crude humor Studio: Paramount Pictures Directed By: Penelope Spheeris Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey Running Time: 95 minutes Release Date: 10/14/1992 Genre: Comedy

Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that this movie is incredibly popular with teen and young adult audiences. Older viewers are liable to be disappointed.

So what's the appeal for teens? The majority of the characters' antics center around teenage pastimes (gawking at babes, hurling, and rock and roll). You may want to have a friendly chat with your teen about the main characters' behavior and the movie's depiction of women.

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Common Sense Review

Reviewed By: Scott G. Mignola

Like Coneheads and the abysmal It's Pat, WAYNE'S WORLD started out as a Saturday Night Live skit. Unlike the aforementioned, it survived the leap to feature-length and became a tremendous success, the shamelessly adolescent humor striking some visceral cord with teenage and young adult audiences.

The movie is so lowbrow that more than once intelligence is made the butt of a joke, as when a dim character inexplicably starts speaking in an educated manner. The rest is a lot of MTV-style hair-swinging, boneheads cruising around lip-synching to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," and a drunken guy constantly threatening to hurl. There's very little cleverness here, but to the movie's credit, it's at least relatively inoffensive, with only a few pelvic thrusts and one gratuitous body cavity search.

There's something engaging about star and co-writer Mike Myers here, but Dana Carvey, with his nerd glasses and teased Fabio hair, is an unfunny eyesore; he looks like a rabbit who's just beginning to feel the effects of a potent garden poison.

As for the rest, Rob Lowe shows less range of expression than a plaster garden gnome, Tia Carrere bounces in occasionally to growl a rock ditty and cavort in tight-fitting outfits, and Lara Flynn Boyle throws credibility to the wind as Wayne's ex-girlfriend.

Ready for more silly lowbrow humor? Check out Dumb and Dumber

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Content		CS	adults	kids
Content
Sexual Content A few allusions to sex and how good it would be to have some; none actually depicted, although there's a brief, frisky scene of mostly clothed bed romping.
Violence Garth electrocutes a big bruiser.
Language Occasional mild to moderate language.
Message
	Social Behavior
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	Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco A drunken guy constantly threatens to hurl.