30 years on, Wayne’s World is still the greatest rock movie ever made

“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl” is one of the all-time greatest movie taglines, six words that let you know you’re in for a lot of fun. Fittingly enough, it’s attached to Wayne’s World, the 1992 comedy that made Mike Myers a superstar, spawned a zillion catchphrases, reminded the world it loved Queen and showed Alice Cooper​’s comedy skills like nothing else. In fact, 30 years on, it seems clear that Wayne’s World is the greatest movie ever made about rock music. It’s a bold claim, sure, but the movie backs it up. (There is, obviously, a massive argument to be made for This Is Spinal Tap, a total masterpiece of a movie and one of the funniest anythings – not just movies, anythings – ever made. But there are a lot more fans out ...

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