After Jim Morrison appears in a dream and instructs him to create a music festival called 'Waynestock', loveable dork Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) ropes in best friend Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) to help. Now going steady with rockstar girlfriend Cassandra (Tia Carrere), Wayne's life is further complicated when unscrupulous music producer Bobby Cahn (Christopher Walken) arrives on the scene and attempts to steal her from under his nose.
Meanwhile, Garth falls under the spell of the delectable Honey Horneé (Kim Basinger), a femme fatale who has sinister plans for the bespectacled metalhead. Racing against the odds to get the festival under way, the boys face their toughest challenge yet as they deal with not only their fraught love lives but deranged roadies, oneeyed bureaucrats and Jim Morrison's bare-bottomed spirit guide.
While it lacks some of the magic that made the original Wayne's World film such a winner, Wayne's World 2 has some genuine flashes of comic genius.
Best of all is Myers' decision to bring in Withnail and I actor Ralph Brown to play roadie Del Preston, a touring veteran who, in an endlessly quotable recurring joke, imparts some decidedly sinister anecdotes. Also excellent is the incomparable Walken who gets to run rings around Wayne and Garth as the film's suave and switched-on villain, with Basinger having a whale of a time sending up her super-sexy image. Equally memorable is a pastiche of the final scenes of The Graduate preceded by a fantastically surreal gag involving a cameo from the late, great Charlton Heston.
While Wayne's World 2 often feels like a collection of sketches arranged around a loose narrative, they are at least very memorable sketches, making this a worthy sequel that, in terms of comedic imagination, often outdoes the original.
Wayne's World 2 is a Film programme that first aired in 1993 and has been classified a PG certificate.
