BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT
ADVENTUREÂ (PG)
D: Stephen Herek
Castle Premier/Interscope (Scott Kroopf, Michael S. Murphy
& Joel Soisson)
USA 🇺🇸 1989
89 mins
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Comedy
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W: Ed Solomon & Chris Matheson
DP: Timothy Surstedt
Ed: Larry Bock & Patrick Rand
Mus: David Newman
PD: Roy Forge Smith & Lynda Paradise
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Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston), Keanu Reeves (Ted "Theodore"
Logan), Robert V. Barron (Abraham Lincoln), Terry Camilleri (Napoleon), Al Leong (Genghis Khan), Rod Loomis (Sigmund Freud), Dan Shor (Billy the Kid), Tony Steedman (Socrates), Jane Wiedlin (Joan
of Arc), George Carlin (Rufus)Â Â Â Â Â Â
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With the aid of a time-travelling phone booth, two high school
slackers abduct historical figures like Joan Of Arc, Abraham Lincoln & Socrates and bring them back to modern day California so they can pass their history essay and not flunk their exams,
success of which keeps them together for the sake of their band, Wyld Stallyns, whose music eventually changes the world for the better.
Bill & Ted is virtually a one-joke movie about idiot time
travellers which nevertheless amassed a cult audience amongst the MTV crowd of the late 80's and early 90's, when the surfer-dude / stoner character was all the rage, Bill & Ted are a little
more innocent than that, and the double act between the two leads works particularly well.
It's all very stupid, but fun unpretentious nonsense never
hurt anybody. Keanu Reeves went on to become an A-list star following the success of the film, but whatever happened to Alex Winter?
6/10