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Rating:  -
This isn't a varey realistic movie but it is fun. It sort of belongs on the shelf next to "Wayne's World". By this time the basic premise ( I hesitate to say "plot") is well known.
Chazz Darvey, singer guitarist for "The Lone Rangers" (a running joke throughout)has a fight with his beautiful blond but irritated live in girlfriend, Kayla, who has become increasingly digusted that she does all the work and pays all the bills while Chazz is unemployed and unsuccessful in his quest to become a full time musician. After one fight too many she literally throws him out of the apartment and Chazz shows at the home of bandmates Pip and Rex. Pip runs a pool cleaning service and Rex works in a toy warehouse which has just discontinued a line of water pistols for looking too authentic. Rex confiscates a fewe for himself which he plans to use to blast people in the face on his next trip down Hollywood Boulevard. Chazz has other plans and basically decides that if the band can just get three minutes of airplay on the radio it would make a difference in their careers as musicians. The three are unable to get electronic security door to open and while Rex and Chazz decide to try the roof, goofball Pip is knocked in the head by dumb blonde secretary Suzzi (with 2 z's) who has decide to sneak a cigarette outside the station. After Suzzi goes back inside the 3 manage to stop the door from going shut and they're in. They make their way into the control both where they are greeted by DJ Ian "The Shark" and who turns the mic on them as they request to be heard on the air. Ian is about to honor their request when the tape malfunctions causing the tape to land in an ashtray instead of the take up reel. The tape is needless to say beyond repair. Somewhere in the midst of all of this confusion, the program director demands that three leave the station immediately and refers to Rex as "Hollywood Boulevard trash". Rex pulls the water gun loaded with pepper spray as does Chazz. The water guns look like Uzi's and the radio station panics at a hotage situation, and the band panics realizing they are now not only unemployed musicians but also are felons. The police are on the outside of the building trying to negotiate with the "kidnappers" and staff and faculty on the inside having a party while Chazz and friends try to figure a way out of this mess. Meanwhile, the station is broadcasting the whole thing over the airwaves all over L.A. to an audience that thinks this is just a publicity stunt. If this sounds ridiculous, it is. It's also funny as Hell. The whole thing finally ends when Kayla shows up at the station with an alternate copy of the demo and record company execs race to sign the band, who wind up making their first album live in prison.
This whole movie pretty much requires that you suspend any belief in anything realistic. If you can accomplish that then you'll probably enjoy this. Cameo by Beavis and Butthead should tell you something about the level of realism herein. Also Lemmy as a fan in parking lot, as well as Motorhead tune in the opening.
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I remember watching this movie on tv years ago and it seemed better than I originally thought. Overall, you could miss this movie and you could go on with life without ever knowing about it.
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This movie is very light hearted. It is funny to look back to the real start up of the careers of Fraser, Bushemi, and Sandler!
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Please do not waste your money buying this bad movie.
Bad plot, bad acting, bad everything.
It's so bad I had to watch the final 30 minutes on fast forward just to get to the end. What a waste of (usually) good actors.
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For some reason, I've always had a soft spot for Airheads. I first saw it, like most, on tv a few years back, and thought it was great. Being a musician, and being in a new band at that time, there was a lot that I got out of it. One man's struggle to get his band somewhere is a common theme, but how they do it is always the fun part. Especially when it involves holding up a radio station at gunpoint. Other things I noticed in re-watching it were Adam Sandler doing a role where he didn't scream like an idiot every other, Brendan Fraser being able to actually look like a real rocker and not an over glorified one, and Steve Buscemi, being great as usual. But that's really all in the current viewing. A lot of the jokes have become stale or just "laugh to yourself in your head" funny then they may have been when I was 15. Regardless, I don't think I can ever completely hate the movie. Be it the closing song, eye candy in the form of the two leading ladies, Buscemi's excellent character of Rex, or seeing Chris Farley rip a piercing right off a spot that's sure to make some people cringe.
Taking place in the early 90s when rock music was about as dead as you can get (no, I won't count grunge), with countless bands that all looked the same and sounded equally similar, Chazz sets out to change the face of music. He sings and plays guitar for his band The Lone Rangers, and constantly tries to get his demo tape to a big shot executive at the nearby record company. This time, he's dressed up as a deliveryman and finally makes it to the head of the company, only to find out he can't take things that are unsolicited. Chazz is then thrown out and heads back to his girlfriend's place. While she works hard and takes care of everything on her own, Chazz's only contribution to the home is trying to get a record deal. No job, no school, nothing really useful to their living situation. He tells her that he snuck in, and she basically dumps him, leading Chazz to live with his band mates, Rex and Pip. Rex just so happens to have some water guns that look incredibly real, and fills them up with hot sauce, making for a nice makeshift pepper spray. They then get the bright idea to head down to the local rock radio station and try to get their demo played there. Things don't go the best, and they end up holding up the studio with water guns, though no one else knows that. Cops and metal heads are surrounding the place, hearing everything go down since they're on the air the whole time. Is there really any easy way out of this for The Lone Rangers? No. No there isn't.
There's not much to the movie as a whole really. The Lone Rangers hold up a studio. Chazz and his girlfriend argue a little. Pip and Rex deal with the hostages. The head of the radio station reveals his plans for its future. That's really all there is. What happens in-between is pretty funny the first time around. Pip being an idiot, but not pushing it too far, got a few laughs out of me still, like his run-in with a lone cop outside early on in their takeover. Chris Farley, though not used to even half his potential, has a few good quick gags, including the infamous piercing pull. But most of the supporting cast is lame. Michael Richards is wasted as a would-be undercover agent, stuck in the ventilation system of the station, and barely has any lines. He just keeps making stupid facial expressions. The real star has to be Joe Mantegna as the DJ, who's second only to Chazz for the main role. His one liners and grasp of reality regarding the situation were great. If it seems like I don't have much to say good about the movie, it's because I don't. It's average at best, but a guilty pleasure for many. It's one of those movies that for whatever reason, when it pops up on tv, you'll watch it. Aside from Steve Buscemi being awesome as usual, you probably won't remember much from it after all's said and done either. How rock `n' roll!
My god did they drop the ball on the dvd release. The picture quality looks like it was ripped straight from a vhs copy. Anamorphic widescreen ain't looking pretty here. Tons of grain and fragments plague the screen, and things look way too faded for my taste. Someone needs to clean this sucker good. The audio doesn't have as many problems, but make sure to change the set-up to surround sound over the 4.0 track. It starts out that way, and before I changed things, I thought I was going semi-deaf. I never heard a 4.0 track before, and I hope I never do again after the 10 seconds that I experienced.
Making this an even sloppier release is the lack of any real special features. We get a music video by Motorhead- Born to Raise Hell, for starters. And in my book, anything involving Motorhead as an extra is cool. Sadly, the video's mostly filled with clips from the movie instead of footage of them being awesome. Other than that, the other sole extra is Airheads: Special Report, a poorly done faux-news report that runs for about 15 minutes. It's filled with fake interviews with some of the cast, clips from the movie, behind the scenes footage, and what looks to be some deleted scenes. The report isn't that funny at all, and feels way too forced, even for what it is. It seems like something that would've aired on tv to promote the movie. If it was, I can see why Airheads didn't do too hot, even with the extra Chris Farley bits. I'll admit though that there was one funny part that makes fun of real news reports properly- a reporter says that he's standing in front of a blue screen that will turn into a background of the scene of the crime. It's about time someone says that.
Fans of the movie will buy it without hesitation, and I doubt a special edition will come out this year or next given how long this version's been out. But if you've been curious about it for the reason of one of your favorites being one of the main 3 roles, you're probably better off borrowing or renting. Fraser and Sandler have both done much better, though it was cool to see Fraser as a rocker who isn't a pretty boy or over the top. But as I stress, Buscemi's the man here, and his role serves as a reminder of why he's one of America's best actors, even if it is in a little cult comedy role. The lack of real special features and horrible dvd transfer keep it from reaching even 3 stars in the end.
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