Wayne's World

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Template:Infobox Film Wayne's World is a 1992 comedy film starring Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of a cable access television show (called Wayne's World) from Aurora, Illinois. The movie was adapted from a popular skit of the same name on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The film grossed US$121.6 million in its theatrical run, placing it as the eighth highest grossing film of 1992 and easily the highest grossing movie ever based on a Saturday Night Live skit. It was directed by Penelope Spheeris with Myers co-writing the script.

Wayne and Garth's hobbies included playing street hockey, hanging out at Stan Mikita's doughnut shop (an in-joke on Tim Hortons, a popular Canadian fast food restaurant), avoiding "psycho hose beasts" (Wayne's ex-girlfriend Stacie), and catching hot local bands at "Gas Works", a hard rock club in Aurora. (Gas Works was also a Canadian in-joke; it was the name of a real Toronto live music nightclub in the late 1970s and early 1980s which primarily booked hard rock bands.)

The movie was filled with pop culture references and also started a few. Catch phrases like "Not!", "Party on!", and "Excellent!" augmented the slacker language of Generation X as Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure did in 1989. Its multiple endings, antiplot (the ridicule of common plot techniques), and the use of the camera as a character have been noted in film studies. The use of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the film propelled the song to #2 in Billboard singles charts nearly 20 years after its first release. The soundtrack album reached number one in the Billboard album charts.

Wayne's World also featured Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, and Lara Flynn Boyle. Other appearances include Brian Doyle-Murray, Robert Patrick (spoofing his role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Ed O'Neill, Chris Farley (his first film role), Meat Loaf, and Alice Cooper.

Wayne's World received mostly positive reviews upon release and was commercially successful (unlike many Saturday Night Live-based films). It was followed by Wayne's World 2. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Wayne's World the 41st greatest comedy film of all time. The success of the film and its sequel led a street in Draper, Utah, to be named "Wayne's World Drive." Draper is approximately 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City.

A Wayne's World theme park attraction was built and featured at the Paramount-owned theme parks Kings Dominion and Carowinds. The Wayne's World-themed roller coaster, Hurler, remains at both parks, but the Wayne's World section of Carowinds has been rethemed Thrill Zone, and the Wayne's World section of Kings Dominion has been merged into another area of the park known as The Grove.

The famous street hockey scene was the basis for a popular Sega handheld game. It was also referenced in the intro to the Eleven To One song "Game On."

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