WAYNE'S WORLD (1992)

WAYNE'S WORLD (PG-13) Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey), the scruffy, suburban metal heads from Saturday Night Live, exist in a happy myopic daze: Whatever happens to them, they experience it as if they were watching it on television. As a movie, Wayne's World isn't much more than an aimiable goof, yet it's carried along by the flaked-out exuberance of its two stars. Myers, as the pie-eyed Wayne, works in his own lyrical stratosphere; there's a joyousness to him that's almost childlike. And Dana Carvey takes Garth's stiff-bodied geekiness to the nth power. The joke of these two isn't that they're mindless, like Bill and Ted. It's that their brains can't access anything that hasn't already been processed by the media. The film, which is about how the two transplant their cable show to a ritzy Chicago station, could have used a better quotient of sharp gags. Still, it moves quickly, and it has a pleasing daftness. B

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