Review – Airheads

Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler all star as a trio of losers just as the actors’ respective careers were really starting to take off back in the mid-90s. All things considered this isn’t a terrible movie, not the sort of thing that you’d think the stars would later pool their funds to force out of distribution. But it’s telling that cameos include Lemmy (von Motorhead) and Beavis and Butthead. The plot here is that desperate garage-band musicians use realistic-looking toy guns to hold up a radio station and demand air time for their demo tape. Things go wrong. Hijack turns to high-jinx. Michael Richards crawls around in air ducts. Though little of the story makes much sense, it occasionally manages to provide a laugh or two to go along with the poorly-crafted bathos. Mildly amusing