Wayne's World: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

85%

Rotten Tomatoes: 46 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

The movie has a pleasing daftness.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

50

The film tends to be funny when confining itself to short sketches or dopey television-based humor, flat when pretending to be anything more.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll drive home. As Wayne or Garth would say, it's schweeeet.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Like the Bill & Ted movies, this one works on its intended level and then sneaks in excursions to some other levels, too.
Full Review » 13 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Very silly but enjoyable.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

Director Penelope Spheeris, with her first major studio assignment (and eight-figure budget), delivers a colorful but uneventful picture.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Hollywood surely accepts the movie's message: laughter is the least expensive therapy. And audiences may happily parrot another Wayneism to Myers: 'He shoots! He scores!'
Full Review » 5 years ago
Scott G. Mignola Common Sense Media

60

Incredibly lowbrow, but many teens will love it.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

70

represented more than a slacker voice for a generation. It was a cultural phenomenon
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews

63

With Myers feeling his oats as a comedy star, Wayne's World turned out to be an irresistibly silly (and masterfully marketed) option for audiences. [Blu-ray]
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rory L. Aronsky Screen It!

85

Everything wrapped within this film works...
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Though it appears to be a brain-dead comedy, it at least has a little something to say about American suburbia in the 1990s -- a specialty of director Penelope Spheeris.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Empire Magazine

60

A classic comedy of its time.
Full Review » 5 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

88

Confronts the cultural emptiness of late 20th-century life head-on, revealing a profound hollowness in the heart of modern man (and babe).
Full Review » 5 years ago
Film4

80

It's snickering, silly and, at times, downright demented (Bugs Bunny in a dress?), but that's why it works.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

60

Full Review » 5 years ago
Eric Melin Scene-Stealers.com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Time Out

Much of the credit for the film's success lies with Spheeris, whose confident if rough-edged direction keeps it on track and cooking.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan

80

Mike Myers' first claim to fame. Funny.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nell Minow Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat

60

Full Review » 9 years ago
Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall

60

Hilariously endearing.
Full Review » 9 years ago