recommended

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The movie is awesome! Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler all show great chemistry together. Follow that up with endless cameos from a couple of Ghost Busters, Lemmy, Kramer, Farley, Rob Zombie etc etc, and you've got yourself a great cast. The jokes are well written and unforced. Though childish at some moments,(But aren't we all sometimes) this movie keeps the laughs coming. You can really tell that the actors and the writers loved the music they were writing about. The detail and thought put in to it is very commendable. Right down to some of the lesser known metal band stickers inside the Lone Rangers tour vehicle/pool cleaning van. It may be over 20 years old but the plot is still pretty relevant. Watch this movie if you haven't already.

Chazz Darvey (Brendan Fraser) is desperate to get his band heard by the record companies. His angry violent girlfriend Kayla (Amy Locane) has enough and throws him out. He moves in with The Lone Rangers bandmates Rex (Steve Buscemi) and Pip (Adam Sandler). The three idiots try to get their music played by the DJ (Joe Mantegna). Station manager Milo (Michael McKean) try to kick them out and the boys pull out their fake guns. Things spiral out of control.This movie is an OK little comedy. It's funniest when the guys turn stupid. Adam Sandler is a fun idiot. He is hilarious. Chris Farley steals a few scenes. There is also Michael Richards crawling around. This works best when people are acting completely stupid which happens quite a few times.

Airheads entertainingly tells an amiable story which captures the attention and interest throughout its running time. Wholly improbable, this doesn't matter - one enjoys the company of most of the characters, and one is (as intended) annoyed by the duplicitous station manager and the idiotic gung-go SWAT chief.It isn't actually that funny, mind you, but it's still entertaining.And it's notable for early appearances by a fair number of people in the early stages of their careers before they became major successes. Each of them plays somewhat contrary to the types they have subsequently become known for, and each shows signs of the stars they are to become. Steve Buscemi must get the nod for favourite performance, though.

The Lone Rangers, an unsigned, self-proclaimed "power slop" band, consisting of guitarist Chazz Darby (Fraser), bassist Rex (Buscemi) and drummer Pip (Sandler), takes over a radio station so they can get their demo played on the air, and hopefully get a record contract. The whole thing goes spiraling downhill when their demo is destroyed, and while trying to escape, the boys come to realize that the radio station has become surrounded by the police. The Lone Rangers take the radio station and it's staff hostage with water guns that look like Uzis (filled with hot sauce) and with all their might try to get their demo to get some airplay as a crowd of soon-to-be fans gathers at the station to follow the mayhem.Now, the only reason I wanted to watch 'Airheads' in the first place was because I saw on the TV section of the newspapers that the wonderful Steve Buscemi would be starring in it. I was certainly not expecting it to be as funny as it turned out to be. I've never been a huge fan of Brendan Fraser and I still have a strong dislike for Adam Sandler, but this trio came together in 'Airheads' and created something so funny I laugh out loud whenever I think about some if it's moments, which does earn me the occasional glance in a public bus. Being a big fan of heavy metal myself, I was happily surprised to see White Zombie AND Lemmy himself in cameos, and the movie delivered some hilarious and original dialogue.As with every movie, it does have it's flaws; some of the jokes just don't deliver, and the character of the man hiding in the air ducts was, in my opinion, a bit too dramatic and silly. The big finale on the rooftop of the KPPX building was also a bit too weird for my taste.If you're looking for a simple and funny movie to rock your world, 'Airheads' is the one to go for!