David Arquette Movie:

Editorial Review:
Spinal Tap it ain't, but Michael Lehmann's good-natured comedy of errors, about a garage band whose unannounced visit to a local radio station escalates into a hostage situation, is pleasant diversion with a fair share of laughs. Brendan Fraser plays the singer-songwriter of the unknown heavy metal band the Lone Rangers, a trio of socially challenged musicians rounded out by dimwitted but sweet bass player Adam Sandler and aging drummer/toy-store employee Steve Buscemi--who just happens to be packing a lifelike toy machine gun from work. Needless to say, the friendly visit is misinterpreted as a hostile takeover, but all the Lone Rangers want is to play their music on the air--and they sabotage themselves again by destroying their own demo tape! Joe Mantegna plays a burned-out deejay who tries to help the muddled metalheads as the media surrounds the building and asks the question on everyone's lips: "How can you be the Lone Rangers if you're always together?" --Sean Axmaker

Airheads [Region 2] Reviews:
no contract
2009-11-22 - So this is how you break into the music industry?
Not funny to anyone trying to get his music heard.
This kind of behavior is a way to get dead or in prison.
There is a certain air of destruction and degeneracy
in the current music situation.
Either you are a "manufactured" Partridge family
from dizzy studios to TV or you are the son of some rich bosso
who is willing to buy you air time?
The rap people had to re-manufacture the system to get air play.
Ordinary people just haven't much of a chance even with British
manufactured get you on TV contests.
You suppose the King Presley would get played or a contract in today's world?
So this movie is no sale here.

'Airheads' (20th Century Fox) Running time: 92 minutes
2009-08-20 - Main reason I'm giving this 1994 movie a four-star rating is for the numerous good lines / scenes that occured through out the film. Plot involved a power metal trio - the Lone Rangers - Chester (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi) and Pip (Adam Sandler) who scheme to take a local radio station - Rebel Radio and it's staff hostage to secure a record contract. Personally, I tought it was a scream - the couple of scenes that featured Officer Wilson (the late Chris Farley). Definitely makes for a fun time, when you're hanging out on a weekend at a friend's house with a keg. Drink up!

didn't age well
2009-08-19 - Oh my, I FEEL like an airhead after watching this movie.

While this film is probably so well-known for featuring a bunch of soon-to-be popular movie stars (or ALREADY stars such as Chris Farley) it's not a particularly funny movie. It's about three guys who hold up a radio station with a squirt gun. Of course the hostages don't realize it's a squirt gun or they'd be OUT of there in a hurry.

The three guys are trying to be rock stars, and want the radio station to play their song by forcing them to do so. Since it's a comedy a bunch of things constantly go wrong for the guys, most of which isn't even funny.

It's a comedy so we won't put too much stock into the things in the storyline that defy logic. Instead it's important to note that despite being tagged a comedy movie, it's anything but.

Something funny to me is something that makes me, you know, LAUGH. I didn't laugh hardly at all except for one scene near the end when a tied-up hostage on a chair tried making his escape and a squirt gun to the face was waiting for him. That was the only funny moment of the entire movie.

The one guy who managed to avoid being a hostage by escaping through the vent system in the ceiling wasn't funny. In fact his character was entirely pointless, despite crawling through the vents listening in to people and having his own strange adventures wandering through the vent system.

The negotations with the cops could have been funnier too. There was hardly even any negotiating taking place.

Overall, nah, it shouldn't be considered a classic just because it's an older film now. All the stars in the movie had better roles in other movies.

ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2009-06-11 - One of the funniest films of all time. This classic comedy has some of the biggest names in Hollywood working together, all before they hit the bigtime. Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, Michael Richards, Chris Farley, David Arquette and many more create this masterpeice.

This is the kind of film you have to watch many times because there are so many hilarious moments that it requires multiple viewings in order to fully grasp all of the humor.

If you haven't seen Airheads, prepare to laugh your head off.

We Want the Airwaves!
2009-03-15 - Chester (Brendan Fraser) is living the rockers life... except without the money. Try and try as he might, he just can't get anyone to listen to his demo of his band `The Lone Rangers'. `The Lone Rangers' is a heavy rock band that includes himself, and his two friends who are brothers, Rex (Steve Buscemi) and Pip (Adam Sandler). Taking things into his own hands, Chester decides to sneak into the local rock radio station to see if he can get his demo played there. Mainly because another rock band got their demo played their and became a success. When they won't do it, Rex (who works at a toy store) whips out a machine gun and orders them to play the tape. What everyone (but the band and us) doesn't know is that it's a toy machine gun filled with Tabasco sauce. They round up everyone working at the station, but what the rockers don't know is that they were on air the whole time, so now the cops have the place surrounded, as well as a huge crowd of `fans'. All they want is their demo played and someone to hear it, to bad they ruin the copy they bring to the station.

After not having seen this movie for many years, I would say it's still pretty darn funny. There were plenty of spots where I still laughed out loud. I'll tell ya what though, Steve Buscemi is a god in this movie. Almost every line he delivers is hilarious and mainly it's because of his sarcastic tone and facial expressions. Also, I know a lot of people who don't like Adam Sandler (why I'll never know), but I think he's pretty funny and actually a good actor in his serious roles. This role though has him playing a smaller part than he's used to now, but he's really funny in this role. The only person I don't care for is Brendan Fraser, but then again I've never really liked him in anything he's played in. Well... cept maybe his role in Scrubs. I liked that role.

In the end I would give this a rent if you want to have some rockin fun.

P.S. - Why do I hate Brendan Fraser so much? I can't even stand him in Encino Man.