Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2 Information

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 in 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. 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, and Wayne wonders if the whole thing was a good idea.

Meanwhile Wayne's girlfriend Cassandra 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. Meanwhile, Garth has stage fright during the concert. 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, telling them that all that matters is they tried. 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

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 vocalist 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 mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 60% based on 42 reviews.

Roger Ebert gives the film 3 out of 4 stars, and writes that the characters of Wayne and Garth are "impossible to dislike."

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 North American gross was $48 million, slightly more than its $40 million production 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.

Soundtrack

Main article: Wayne's World 2 (soundtrack)