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Excellent Movie
I first saw Bill & Ted back in the late 80's and fell totally in love. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This is one of the funnies clean comedies you will ever see. It stars one of the best actors in Hollywodd with Keanu Reeves as Ted Thedore Logan and Alex Winter as Bill S Preston Esquire. These two metal fans are trying to start there band the Wyld Stallions. When there parents find out the two are failing history they get slammed. Ted's dad threaten's to send him to military school. No way man. If that happens the band won't form and world peace won't happen in the future. Rufius(Carlin) is sent back in time to help them. He gives them a time machine so they can go back and learn history so they can pass there class.

What a movie plot. Pretty original and creative.

Reeves and Winter are awesome. Everybody knows who Reeves his, and this was his first big hit and one of his most successful of all time. He plays the metal head to perfection as does Winters. The two deserve more credit for what they did with this movie. It formed a sequel, and there was a hit cartoon show for a while after it.

The 80's music is great in the movie. If hair metal is your thing you should like it just for that.

My favorite part of the movie is in the San Dimas mall. Seeing all the historical characters there, and what they do is hilarious. I've never seen a person not laugh at that.

Overall it's a five star and a must see. I was a little disappointed with the extras the DVD had to offer, but was so excited to see it on DVD. So sit down and prepare yourself for an excellent adventure with Bill and Ted. Your sure to like it.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on DVD
Hey dudes! This here movie rocks! It's about Bill(Alex Winter), and Ted (Keanu Reeves), two really stupid kids who have failed history while planning a band called Wyld Stallyns, and must do a history report over "So-crates", Sigmund "Frood", and other historical people, and get an A+ on it to pass the class (and the grade). Luckily, a guy named Rufus(George Carlin) from the future comes to help them, because if they don't become a great band, the future will [stink]! With a phone booth/time machine, they find many historical people, meet two princesses or "babes" in medival England whom they marry (in the 2nd Movie), pass their report, and with the help of Rufus, become a great band! Get it, it's totally excellent (especially on DVD in widescreen and with a brand new looking picture, especially for having been filmed in 1989)! So, "be excellent to each other", and "party on dudes"!

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Misadventures In Time & Space
* BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (B&TXA) is a low-budget,
derivative, silly film that shamelessly panders to its teen-age target
audience; it represents nothing new in film-making; and is blatantly
commercial.

I really liked it.

The plot is simple enough. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reaves)
are two California kids who want to become famous rock stars. There's
only one problem: they can't play their instruments. Well, actually,
there's two problems: they're both complete boneheads, and their
hardnosed history teacher tells them that if they *don't* pass their
oral history report, they *will* flunk out of school. This oral
report involves imagining what historical personages would've thought
of the present day and the local environment. Not too demanding, but
it's still above the ability of these two, and if they flunk, Ted's
sourpuss dad intends to send him off to a military academy in Alaska,
separating the two friends, probably forever.

Fortunately, the society of Earth 700 years from now has a special
interest in them, and an agent (George Carlin) is sent back in a time
machine (shaped like a phone booth -- a normal one, not an
old-fashioned British police box) to help out. So Bill and Ted have
in their hands the best possible tool for conducting hands-on
historical research.

This sounds silly, and it is, and all the unkind things I said above
about this movie are true. That leads to the question: What saves

B&TXA? Simple enough: Bill and Ted. These two guys don't look like
they have the collective mental energy to make a nightlight glow.
They don't actually have to *do* anything to be funny. You laugh at
them even if they're just *standing* there.

Though when push comes to shove, it turns out they can be quite
resourceful. Like a lot of teenagers, they just need to get
motivated. It's hard not to like them, since they're about as
good-natured kids as you're likely to find. Bill has the initiative,
willing to take risks without hesitation because he doesn't have a
clue of what he's getting into. Ted is a born romantic, a sweet-faced
kid who all the girls think is really cute. Any time he sees a
good-looking girl his heart leaps into his throat and stars flicker in
his eyes.

The story, like I said, is silly, but silliness is hardly a critical
term when applied to a comedy -- and it does have its moments, such as
Napoleon at the water slides, and Genghis Kahn ... well, I won't say
any more. It certainly does pander to teenagers: nearly all the
adults are creeps or morons, and the kids turn the tables on them in
the end -- but it also made me feel wistful. I didn't have fun being
a teenager and this film suggests to me in its own bizarre way that it
could've been more fun than it was. The only thing I can seriously
say against B&TXA was that by the time it was over I was glad I didn't
have to listen to "PARTY ON, DUDE!" and "EXCELLENT!" one more time.

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE isn't the sort of thing that would
win awards, in fact nobody in their right mind would recommend it for
one. Some movies are like expensive dinners; others are like Big
Macs. But as Big Macs go, BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE tastes
good.

Oh, yeah, the usual cautions: No noticeable bad language, overt
sexual activity, or graphic violence (unless you are the sort of
person who feels that the Three Stooges are a bad influence on kids).
And definitely, absolutely not for people who are into serious cinema.
[Minor update of review from 1989 -- GVG]