Wayne's World (1992)
Directed by Penelope Spheeris
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.
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For me, it holds up as a comedy one keeps close by when laughs are required, much like "Airplane!" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
The first feature produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels, directed by heavy-metal specialist Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization) from a script authored by Myers, Bonnie Turner, and Terry Turner, this has a minimal plot relating to the attempted co-option and exploitation of the lead dudes by evil Chicago entrepreneurs (headed by Rob Lowe), but most of it is just Hellzapoppin-style gags, with a nice turn by Tia Carrere as a Chinese-born heavy-metal performer.
Having directed the punk rock and heavy metal documentaries The Decline of Western Civilization and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Spheeris had a Rolling Stone-ready rock cachet and her finger on the pulse of the film's target audience of suburban male youth.
The last time Lorne Michaels had produced a successful film based off an SNL sketch was with The Blues Brothers , 12 years previously.