“Wayne’s World” is a movie obsessed with authenticity but built on layers of artifice. It is an “SNL” sketch stretched into a movie, set amid the drama-kid fandom of Queen and Alice Cooper. And though he participates in Wayne’s brand of post-pubescent schwinging, he has an androgynous, childlike presentation; he finds condoms icky and flaps his hands when he dances. Wayne is the star of “Wayne’s World,” but Garth is its moral center. Whoa, I feel sorry for whoever that is.”Wayne, who dreams of doing “Wayne’s World” for a living, falls easily under Benjamin’s influence, but Garth eyes the whole process at a skeptical remove.

Source: New York Times July 01, 2020 13:52 UTC