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Starring:
Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Joe Mantegna, Michael Richards, Ernie Hudson, Amy Locane, Nina Siemaszko, John Melendez, John Melendez
Directed By:
Michael Lehmann
Written By:
Rich Wilkes
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Airheads (1994)
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Movie Review by Simon
September 5th, 2007
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Never taking itself too seriously, Airheads is an easy-going comedy about a trio of musicians who inadvertently find themselves taking a radio station hostage in a poorly-thought-out bid to have their demo played. Its feet set firmly in Gen X culture and with some sly digs at corporate music culture, this is a perfect movie to watch back-to-back with Empire Records.
The Airheads of the title are the Lone Rangers, a alternative rock band who are just looking for a chance. Helmed by Brendan Fraser before he hit it big with The Mummy and backed by Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler, the Lone Rangers break into a radio station with the best of intentions but quickly find themselves taking hostages and sealing up the doors (leaving Michael Richards, back before the racial hatred meltdown) to crawl around the air vents on the inside of the building. The hostages include David Arquette, playing the lovable stoner for all he's worth, the always-reliable Michael McKean, and Joe Mantegna as the DJ with a soul still intact after years in the business. Ernie Hudson, Chris Farley and Judd Nelson star in a variety of supporting roles, Hudson and Farley's turns as two police officers particularly good.
The film has a running thread of goofy good humour running through it, mainly stemming from the interactions between the not-always-the-sharpest-tools-in-the-shed Lone Rangers and the rest of the cast. It also features one of Sandler's best moments on celluloid as he undergoes hostage taking training by Buscemi (who makes the most of his vacation from more high-brow fare).
It's not a complicated movie, and it's not a groundbreaking movie, but Airheads is very definitely a good movie. Highly watchable and highly entertaining.
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 | Zara
Sep 5, 2007 10:11 AM
also wrote a review of Airheads 
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| This is one of my big favorites, probably because I was around this scene of the long-haired heavy metal guys desperately clinging to the genre when everyone else was jumping ship. |
 | Zombie Boy
Sep 6, 2007 2:39 AM
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At one point, Buscemi and Sandler are having a tete-a-tete by the back of their van, and you can clearly see a Paw sticker. Since Paw is the best band no one's ever heard of, seeing them acknowledged, even slightly, in a major motion picture was enough to earn my affection.
Plus, I love when the blond chick gives the line, "All those bjs for nothing." |
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Sep 5, 2007 10:24 AM