"You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl." Using this as a tag line, Wayne's World was the surprise hit movie of 1992. Starring Mike Myers (1963–) and Dana Carvey (1955–), Wayne's World was a feature-length version of the comic pair's cult Saturday Night Live skit on youth culture. Full of digs at big business and advertisers' quests for profit, Wayne's World was nevertheless a marketing success. Ironically, its young audience readily bought into the film's cynicism about the world of big business and spent $180 million at the box office to prove how cynical they were. With its clever script and inspired casting, Wayne's World is among the best of the many deliberately moronic comedies made in Hollywood in the 1990s.

The simple plot of Wayne's World is based around a public-access cable-TV show hosted by Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar. Goaded to "sell out" by an...