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Airheads

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Okay, this movie has a special feature that is the best documentary of a movie i've ever seen. It is filmed in the form of a news report of the Lone Rangers taking over the radio station, and has appearances of all of the cast memeber from the movie. It is fantastic. This movie is wonderful, and the special feature of the news cast is ingenious and very entertaining. I love this movie, and everything about it is wonderful. Buy it, and definitely watch the special features.

Right now, I am working on getting my own band together. I also happen to be a fan of Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, and Steve Buscemi. Sandler, Fraser, and Buscemi are all hilarious, and I have seen a lot of their films. So any musician or any fan of theirs should check out "Airheads", a riotous comedy which makes you wonder how far any musician/band will go to get their music out on the market.

Chester "Chazz" Darvey (Fraser), Rex (Buscemi), and Pip (Sandler) are three friends in a band who live and work in Los Angeles. Rex and Pip are brothers. At the beginning of the movie, we see how far Chazz, Rex, and Pip are going in life. Chazz lives with his girlfriend Kayla in a small apartment and gets kicked out at the beginning of the movie. Rex works at a toy store. Pip has his own pool service. Their band is The Lone Rangers. Recently, they just recorded their first demo, which they have on both a tape and on a cassette, and they are trying to get their demo played on the radio. So one day, Chazz, Rex, and Pip go to a radio station in downtown L.A., and after breaking into the station, they meet a radio disc jockey named Ian. After an argument with both the DJ and the program director, Chazz, Rex, and Pip take the radio station hostage. And once Chazz, Rex, and Pip have the station held hostage, funny, surprising, shocking, and hilarious events occur.

"Airheads" is definitely one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Every single second of this movie is funny, and all of the actors give great performances. My favorite character would have to be Pip, becuase he is the stupid one out of the gang, and while he is nice to the hostages (at one part of this movie, Rex has to take him in private and train him a little bit so he will appear as tough) out of all the dumb decisions made by characters during this movie, he makes the dumbest decision (wait till you see what that is). So check out "Airheads". You'll die of laughter.

If you've ever been in a band and you've recorded a demo then tried to send it off to major record labels and every attempt failed, then this movie will set your spirits high.

In this epic, 3 bandmates have no career motivation whatsoever except to make it big in the record industry. Their half baked plans to get the record people to listen to their demo tape backfire. What's a band to do now? Why, take a popular station hostage, of course!

Armed with toy guns loaded with pepper sauce, the 3 guys bust into (well sorta) the station and demand that the guy plays the tape. Only one problem. The quarter inch tape player(think old time projectors) just destroyed their copy! The lead singer's ex girlfriend has the other copy, and they have to get her to bring it to the station.

Starring Brendan Frasier and Adam Sandler, this movie will not dissapoint. For anyone who likes movies about garage bands, and people that are in bands, then this movie is for you! This also stars the guy who does Fat Tony's voice on the Simpsons as the radio DJ.

I don't see the point in lying to you all. Everyone else might hate this movie and think it is pointless, dumb, and unbelievably predictable. But when you are an almost fourteen year old and have a fetish for Brendan Fraser's butt? It rocks. The character castings are fantastic, and this movie really pulls you in. I don't recommend it for people over sixteen, though. It's sort of a teenage angst kinda thing. I'd buy it now, but I don't have a credit card. Or any money...

A little corny, but I enjoyed it, especially with the choice of stars. Brendan Fraser can always inspire a laugh, but his portrayal of a desperate rock star is great. He only wants to get his song played on the radio, but things quickly get out of hand...
Chrissy K. McVay - Author

In the best grunge and destroy tradition of the early 1990s, this film accumulates provocations and insolence. It is the story of three boys who want to become rock stars in a time when everything is manipulated and negociated behind the back of everyone and even everyone else. Who owns who and vice versa ? Have things really changed ? In those old days they just wanted to push around a little bit and fool around a lot to be seen and admired. The last battle of boys who felt kind of frustrated in this world in which girls were finally speaking up and loud, boys who wanted to reconquer the certainty they were losing that they were strong, powerful and dominant. Dominant over what ? That is THE question that they could not answer. The film is absolutely funny and nothing else, and I mean funny AH AH !

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Paris Dauphine, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

AIRHEADS is a heavy metal comedy starring Brendan Frasier, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler. This one is pretty funny. Adam Sandler is a total riot in this one. It's great!

Chaz (Fraser), Rax (Buscemi) and Pip (Sandler are The Lone Rangers, a struggling metal band that wants to make it big. After hearing a rumor that a local DJ would play their music if they asked nicely, they go down to the radio station and get totally shot down. They come back with a plan, let's take over the radio but we don't want to hurt anyone so we'll use water guns to hold them up. It's a total head bangin laugh out loud comedy.

This one was pretty funny and it has a pretty good cast with Michael McKean, Michael Richards, Joe Montegna, Chris Farley, Judd Nelson and many more. And a pretty good cameo by Motorhead singer/bassist Lemmy. The laughs in this one just keep coming throughout the film. At first, I questioned if Steve Buscemi could play this role (considering he's older than both Sandler and Fraser and that previously, his best known role was for Mr. Pink in RESERVOIR DOGS). I have to give it to him that he easily hangs with Sandler, Fraser and Farley in this one.

I'd check this one out. It's decent and it's got some really good laughs in it. Plus some really good music in it as well. Check out AIRHEADS and if you're looking for other movies by Fraser, Sandler and Buscemi, check out Fraser in THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY RETURNS, Sandler in HAPPY GILMORE, THE WATERBOY and LITTLE NICKY and Buscemi in RESERVOIR DOGS, CON AIR and Buscemi and Sandler in THE WEDDING SINGER.

I love Adam Sandler but this movie just plain sucked. I'll GIVE the video to anyone who really wants it. Chris Farley's small role as the rookie police officer was about the only thing funny in the whole movie. Skip it and watch one of Adam's other movies that actually is funny.

I love comedy movies and though Airheads is not my absolute favorite comedy it was pretty entertaining and the actors all gave some funny performances. In this movie, 3 guys who want to be rockstars are having trouble getting the folks at radio stations to listen to and play their demo tapes so they break into a radio station and hold the DJ and staff hostage with demands that they play their demos and though not a movie that would win an Oscar it was a nice little dumb humor movie that is actually quite entertaining.

People like to claim that critics are irrelevant because they don't always agree with the mass public when it comes to movies. If your average everyday film goer enjoys a movie that the majority of critics panned you'll usually hear them say something to the effect of, "It's not trying to win an Oscar, what did the critics expect?" Of course this argument forgets that critics aren't looking for the next award winner, they're simply measuring whether a film is a good or not.

I will admit that some critics do need to lighten up though. Airheads according to Rotten Tomatoes only received approval from 23% of the critics who reviewed it. Now, while the film didn't do quite well at the box office, it has become a bit of a cult hit in the years since. Public opinion shouldn't sway a critic's analysis of a film, but a critic should analyze film based on whether the film accomplishes what it intends to. Of the critics who did approve of the film, I think Peter Travers would agree with me that this film does.

The Lone Rangers, a hard rock/ metal band comprised of Chazz (Brendan Frasier), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler), just want a record deal. Chazz tries to solicit a record exec (Judd Nelson) to listen to their demo tape, but to no avail. Finding out that another local band got signed by having their tracks played on the local radio station they try to get local DJ Ian (Joe Mantegna) to play their demo on the air. But when Rex is insulted by station manager Milo Jackson (Michael McKean), they take the station hostage with water guns filled with hot sauce to get their track played.

Is Airheads a perfect movie? Of course not; not by any stretch of the imagination, but that doesn't mean it's not fun. First off, I have to confess that it's kind of fun to go back and watch a movie from a time when Brendan Frasier was a bigger box office draw than Adam Sandler who would start his meteoric rise to superstardom in 1995 with Billy Madison. But if you've ever been in a metal band, or if you know people who have been or are, you probably know or have seen people who are like Chazz, Rex, and Pip. For me this added to the fun of this flick.

It's also interesting how this film plays with the stereotype of the guys who are into metal and hard rock. While often considered dark, brooding, and trouble makers these guys are none of those things. Sure, they take a radio station hostage, but they are not bad guys; after all they're holding the radio station hostage with water guns. There's also an interesting turn in the fact that in taking the station hostage they practically become local folk heroes as the area around the station, and most of their hostages don't want to leave. (As a matter of fact, one of their hostages, played by a blond David Arquette, wants back in after he escapes by mistake.)

There are huge gaps in logic throughout the movie. After they first pull the gun in the station and realize that they're in big trouble and try to escape, why hasn't anyone else left the station? At several points throughout the movie we see the kidnappers Chazz, Rex, and Pip in the studio while all the other hostages are in another room. So if they're not being guarded why don't they make a break for it? And how dumb is a cop to give an automatic weapon to an untrained civilian?! (That's not really a plot hole, just a major gap in logic.) This is one of those types of movies though that uses the outrageous and ridiculous antics of its characters to ratchet up the comedy of the situation.

This critic's going to go against the majority of other critics and say that I highly recommend this film. Is this a favorite of mine? No, but it's a great movie to put on during a rainy day just for a touch of fun. Also, personally, anytime Steve Buscemi's in a film it brightens up the proceedings, even in a horrible movie, which this is not. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. If you have, go watch it again.

3.5/5

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