Airheads

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their demo tape played by record label executives. Chazz, on the edge since being thrown out by his girlfriend (Amy Locane), decides it's time to take more serious action, and he leads his bandmates on a mission to invade the local "alternative" rock station, KPPX, and hold it hostage to get the band's tape played on the air. The station staffers don't realize that they're being held with a water gun, and when they finally agree to play the tape, it gets eaten up by a faulty machine. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
• Audio: Dolby Digital 4.0, Dolby Surround
• Encoding: NTSC
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Color
• Subtitle: English, Spanish
• Features:
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    • Theatrical trailer
    • Featurette
    • TV spots
    • Music videos: "Born To Raise Hell" by Motorhead
    • Ice-T and Whitfield Crane "Feed the Gods" by White Zombie

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Michael Lehmann

• Producer:

  Mark Burg, Robert Simonds

• Screenwriter:

  Rich Wilkes

• Cinematographer:

  John Schwartzman

• Composer (Music Score):

  Carter Burwell

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Douglas Axtell, Russell Fager

• Editor:

  Steve Semel

• Production Designer:

  David Nichols

• Art Director:

  Edward Mcavoy

• Co-producer:

  Ira Shuman

• Executive Producer:

  Todd Baker

• Costume Designer:

  Bridget Kelly

• First Assistant Director:

  Joe Camp III

• Casting:

  Billy Hopkins

REVIEW:

• After the cult hit Heathers, Michael Lehmann was hired to make Hudson Hawk. That infamous turkey bombed so spectacularly that it was another three years before Lehmann could follow it up. Airheads feels like the work of a man learning to direct all over again, and protecting himself by organizing a dependable cast. Although the screenplay is not nearly as smart or funny as it could be, the film is full of actors who put just enough of a spin on the material to give it some life. Steve Buscemi, Joe Mantegna, and even Adam Sandler are given enough space to get whatever laughs they can from the limited material, and Brendan Fraser holds it all together just enough by giving one of his typically dependable (if less than inspired) performances. Given the script, Lehmann and his cast make Airheads about as good as it could possibly be. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi