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| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure |
by Vanessa
"A couple of idiots traveling through time? Most excellent!"
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For anyone who has ever played air guitar in front of the mirror, screaming and singing to "Cherry Pie" by Whitesnake, there is a movie out there for you. I mean, I've never done that. I'd never do something as silly as that! No! ...Stop looking at me like that.Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure has the dubious honor of being the only movie with Keanu Reeves that I not only liked, but liked his performance, as well. Let "The Matrix" be damned! I'd much rather Reeves be shaggy haired and screaming out, "I am Ted 'Theodore' Logan!", with the threat of military school looming over his mushroom-cut head.
The plot is extremely simple. Bill (Alex S. Winters) and Ted (Reeves) are friends. They are failing history. ("Who was Joan of Arc?" "...Noah's wife?") Ted's dad is threatening to send him to an Alaskan military school. They meet Rufus (George Carlin), a guy from the future who's toting a phone booth which allows them to travel through time, collecting historical figures to use in their history report that they have to give in front of the whole school, so that they can later become the best and most loved musicians of all time, thus aligning the planets and bringing peace and harmony to the universe. Whew.
"...What?"
Something's afoot at the Circle K, indeed.
Our two hapless heros collect various historical figures, starting with Napoleon. After dropping off the lovable, tiny French dictator for bowling and ice cream with Ted's little brother, Deacon, they then travel to Anceint Greece where they find Socrates preaching about Days of Our Lives. I know that for at least two years after first seeing this movie, I read Socrates as "so crates." Hell, two years? I still do that today. After collecting a few more historical celebrities, including Abraham Lincoln, Billy the Kid, Sigmund Freud, and Ghengis Khan, for "extra credit, dude.", they travel back to their home in San Dimas, California. They have time to kill, so where do they go? The mall, of course! Predictably, the misplaced historical figures are also arrested.
Will the protagonists get them out of prison? Will they fail history? Will Ted ever score with Bill's stepmom? ("Remember when she was a senior and we were freshmen?" "Shut UP, Ted!") All this and more will be answered. These two were the forerunner for the stupid antics of Beavis and Butthead, but one can't help liking Bill and Ted more. By the time of the most excellent finale, you are rooting for them and hope they'll pass so Ted won't be shipped to Alaska.Who needs memorable quotes from Ghandi or Winston Churchill? All you've got to know is "Be excellent to each other!" and "Party on, dudes!"
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originally posted: 11/01/99 05:15:43
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USA
17-Feb-1989 (PG)
DVD: 12-Jul-2005
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