Confession time: up until this recent viewing, I had not seen Wayne's World since college. In order to accurately transmit my age for all to see, I have fond memories of purchasing a VHS copy of the movie during one of McDonald's promotions back in '93, I guess it was. "For a limited time" if you bought an Extra Value Meal (now with more value), you could purchase one of four VHS movies for like five bucks or so. Wayne's World was the only decent one on offer, but I was driving back to school after a brief visit home and jumped on it. I was looking for party time, and I wanted it to be excellent.

So the image of Wayne and Garth and their amazing hair lives in that nostalgic, pizza-fueled part of my brain where the sight of a portable CD player sitting on the dashboard of Garth's car, or a cassette tape of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" ker-chunking into the deck, doesn't seem so ridiculous. And neither does that hulking VHS tape that was tossed in more boxes for more dorm and apartment moves during college than I care to remember. In fact, it seems quaintly romantic, when compared with the newfangled Blu-ray players and uncompressed surround sound audio tracks that the kids use for entertainment these days. Back in my day we had garage sale televisions with rabbit ears and no more than thirteen inches, and we liked it!

But welcome to the future: Wayne's World is now available in high definition for you and your stoner friends with gainful employment. Mike Myers' hockey hair will show maximum detail. Dana Carvey's drum solo will have better sound presence. And Tia Carrere (Schwing!) will rock you like a hurricane. But does this early '90s comedy really take advantage of a Blu-ray treatment? Let's check it out.

The Movie

Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar like to rock it out in their basement. Hard. And they do so with some buddies on their own public access television show, Wayne's World. Both lucky and unlucky for them, a sleazy TV producer (but really, is there any other kind?) named Benjamin (Rob Lowe) decides to buy the show on the cheap, and use it to generate ad revenue from a chain of video arcades. He shoots, he scores, because they totally fall for it.

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