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Airheads
1994
Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Pip (Adam Sandler), and Rex (Steve Buscemi) are the Lone Rangers, a heavy metal rock group that's going nowhere fast. Tired of playing lame gigs and trying to win over record executives, the band heads to its local radio station in a desperate attempt to have its demo played. Unfortunately, things go .. Read more
| Starring | Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna |
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| Director | Michael Lehmann |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Airheads
Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Pip (Adam Sandler), and Rex (Steve Buscemi) are the Lone Rangers, a heavy metal rock group that's going nowhere fast. Tired of playing lame gigs and trying to win over record executives, the band heads to its local radio station in a desperate attempt to have its demo played. Unfortunately, things go awry when toy guns are pulled out and mistaken for real ones in the heat of the moment, forcing the band to hold the station's employees hostage. Surrounded by the police and thousands of rock & roll fans who have flocked to the station, the boys become unlikely heroes, a voice for those who choose not to conform to corporate America. A little lighter than Michael Lehmann's dark comedy directorial debut HEATHERS, this film offers plenty of physical comedy from Michael Richards and Chris Farley as well as humorous performances from the boys in the band, Michael McKean as the station manager, and Joe Mantegna as DJ Ian the Shark. Live performances by White Zombie and the Galactic Cowboys set the tone for the film, which also boasts an impressive soundtrack.
| Starring | Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson |
|---|---|
| Director | Michael Lehmann |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Oct 2003 Production year: 1994 |
| Format | DVD |
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A dumb heavy metal band finds fame by hijacking a local radio station in director Michael Lehmann's broad Wayne's World-style comedy that lacks the goofy cleverness of the blockbuster hit. The Mummy's Brendan Fraser ably heads the head-banging brigade, with amusing support from dim-witted Adam Sandler and long-haired Steve Buscemi, exchanging Bill and Ted-like ripostes over the airwaves. Never quite as funny as it thinks it is — it needs the lighter touch Lehmann showed in Heathers — the amiable anarchy does sometimes hit the screwball spot thanks to a handful of great one-liners and a deft turn from Michael Richards (Kramer in TV's Seinfeld).
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Rightly despairing of ever landing a record deal, Los Angeles rockers The Lone Rangers infiltrate their favourite radio... read more on Time Out
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15 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Still Rockin
I first saw this film in 1994 at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham. The Electric was a small cinema that picked up many films that were not getting a mainstream release at the big cinemas.
That was the case with Airheads, and consquently this film has passed a lot of people by. It stars Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, but at the time the only one of these guys I'd heard of was Buscemi from Reservoir Dogs.
The film follows these guys who are trying to make a success of their rock band The Lone Rangers. They try and get their demo played a on a local rock radio station, and accidentally end up taking the stations employees hostage.
The film is a little dated now, but is still really funny. I originally wanted to see this film because I was into the music, but probably anyone would like this film. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
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I owned the VHS of this, hammered that copy, then upgraded to the DVD version simply as a keep sake (but watched it a couple of times, still enjoying it).
Very funny film, one of sandlers earliest I think, comedy consistent throughout, and Brendan Frasers girlfriend (Amy Locane) looks well hot ;-) -
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