“So, would you like to have dinner one night?”
“Oh, I like to have dinner every night.”

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Country:  United States
Year:  1993
Language:  English
Starring:  Christopher Walken, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Charlton Heston, Harry Shearer, Jay Leno, Steven Tyler, Kevin Pollak
Eye candy:  Tia Carrere, Heather Locklear, Kim Basinger, Drew Barrymore
Director:  Stephen Surjik
Run time:  94 minutes

      Wayne’s World 2, as so many sequels do, amps up everything that made the first one great - more celebrity cameos, (Drew Barrymore, Jay Leno, Charlton Heston), more silly dialogue, more hot babes (Heather Locklear, Kim Basinger, Tia Carrere), more music (Aerosmith and a huge benefit concert), bigger stars (Christopher Walken).  But, like so many other sequels, more is not necessarily better.  And Wayne’s World 2 is no exception.  It is vastly inferior to the original movie, mostly because there is so much going on that the thing that really made the first one excellent (no pun intended) is dulled.  That being the comedic timing and banter between Dana Carvey (Garth) and Mike Myers (Wayne).

     When they are on the screen together, they are still as funny as ever, but they spend far too little time together in the film.  We see more of Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, and the litany of guest stars than we do of the two people who made the first Wayne’s World movie worth watching.  It still has hilarious moments, and it’s still worthwhile, but Wayne’s World 2 pales in comparison to Wayne’s World.  Both movies come out on Blu-Ray May 12th from Paramount Home Entertainment, and both have a behind-the-scenes feature that plays in a tiny box in the top left hand corner of the screen called “Extreme Close-Up”.  Neither one is really worthwhile, and Wayne’s World 2 doesn’t even have the trailer in the special features.  Not that a trailer is useful in any way.

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