Airheads **** (1994, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Amy Locane) – Classic Movie Review 668

Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler star as three young American airheads, Chazz, Rex and Pip, band members who take over a famous rock n’ roll radio station to get their latest track played on air in director Michael Lehmann’s hilarious 1994 teen comedy.

They end up holding everyone hostage with plastic squirt guns when the station’s head DJ refuses to play their demo tape. In a roundabout sort of way, this might prove the big break The Lone Rangers were hoping for, as long as they stay out of jail.

Rich Wilkes’s very funny, good-natured, anarchic screenplay gets the first-class comedy performances and handling it deserves.

Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Amy Locane, Nina Siemaszko, Marshall Bell, David Arquette, Reg E Cathey, Michael Richards, Joe Mantegna, Michelle Hurst and Allen Covert are in the excellent cast.

Michael Lehmann is also known for Heathers (1988), 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), My Giant (1998) and Hudson Hawk (1991).

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