WAYNE'S WORLD 2

US, 1993, 94 minutes, Colour.
Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Kim Basinger, Tia Carerre, Drew Barrymore.
Directed by Stephen Surjik.

Wayne's World 2 is the tongue in cheek sequel to the very successful original of 1992. Wayne and Garth were created by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. Both are graduates from the very successful Saturday Night Live, where they created the characters. The first film continued their caricatures, impersonations and humour into movies - and the second capitalises on this.

The film has a new director, Steven Sirjuk, a Saturday Night Live director who seems at home with the cast and their style. The film has many enjoyable parodies of the movies (Jurassic Park, the ending of The Graduate) as well as personalities. A number of guest stars seem to be enjoying themselves, especially Kim Basinger doing a variation on her Nine and a Half role, Charlton Heston, billed as `good actor', Drew Barrymore as a Swedish secretary. Once again Tia Carrere is Cassandra. The nominal villain this time is Christopher Walken as an ambitious record producer.

There are many knowing winks at the audience, Mike Myers explaining things, a lot of deadpan jokes - and a psychological dream sequence where Wayne discusses the possibility of putting on a concert, Waynestock, with Jim Morrison (and later with Sammy Davis Jnr) under the guidance of an Indian - with memories of Oliver Stone's The Doors.

1.The popularity of the original, Mike Myers making the link of this film with the original?

2.Aurora, Illinois, the basement TV station, the media world, the record studios, the halls and the bands and groups, homes, the park for the concert?

3.Arrowsmith and the music? Tia Carrere and her songs? The world of music and records?

4.The Saturday Night Live style and background, the style of spoof, caricatures and parody? Language? Verbal humour, visual? The American style? The knowing talking to the audience? The mundane and deadpan explanations of the action?

5.The verbal humour, the language and jokes, the deadpan?

6.The visual humour, slapstick, visual puns, caricatures?

7.The parody of the movies, The Doors, Jurassic Park, The Graduate? The guest stars? The set-up and parody of the Village People?

8.Wayne and his style, personality, language? Explanation of himself? Relationship with Cassandra - and his jealousy? The romance, the suspicion? His dream, the Indian, the desert, Jim Morrison, putting on a concert - and Jim Morrison's platitudes and their being quoted reverently? Garth and his friendship with Wayne, their going to London, the encounter with Del, bringing him to Aurora, listening to his stories? The field for the concert, the preparations, the publicity, the television programs? The failure? Cassandra and her going to Los Angeles, Wayne's encounter with her father - and the dubbing of the Kung Fu action and the parody of dubbed Asian films? The antagonism towards Bobby, the concerts? Watching Cassandra on television? Chasing her, the first and second Presbyterian churches? The Graduate ending? The final dream and the message? The range of endings and his choosing the happy ending?

9.Garth, his nerdish appearance, his awkwardness, sexual nervousness? The encounter with the secretary at the office for the plans for the concert? (And the jokes about eyes and the man with the albino eye?) Friendship with Wayne, following him? The comedy routines? The relationship with Honey, the seduction and his nervousness, the aftermath?

10.Cassandra, her father and the Kung Fu episode? The wedding? Bob and his attentiveness? The record sessions, going to California, with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show? The happy ending with Wayne?

11.Bobby, unscrupulous, the record world, chasing Cassandra, deceiving Wayne? The chase - and the gay bar and the Village People? The wedding and the interruption?

12.Del, the background of the '60s, his deadpan style? Coming to organise the concert? His training of the team - in picking up microphones etcetera? His telling the same old stories?

13.The American style, American humour - '90s mood? Yet popular all over the world?