Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter | Timeless, Optimistic and Brilliant, Dude

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	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter MGM (Video & DVD), 2001 average customer review:based on 149 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's About Time

Someone already made the point that Amazon's official reviewers often seem entirely out of step with their hordes of unofficial ones. This movie is a great example. It deftly avoids pitfalls that sink other films and does so seemingly effortlessly. It gains so much in sublety that it falls beneath the Hollywood radar of critical acclaim.

First, here's a film that delves into the real entanglements of time travel, but unlike Back to the Future, keeps it light. George Carlin plays himself, a burnt out hippie in the role of enlightened visitor from the future. Like Jeff Goldblum, he always plays himself, only the scenery changes-- check him out as the priest in Dogma (which is not at all a family film). Keanu Reeves does a great job in this film which, if it falls in the Doofus Duo genre, is at least as good as the Wayne's World and Dumb and Dumber films.

It's also cleaner. Anyone can write a dirty joke; try writing a clean one. This movie is full of them. Chesterton said it's harder to write a joke than a sermon. Obviously that's why there are so many (bad) sermons. This film succeeds with both good-natured humor and the light-hearted message of "Be excellent to each other." Has the Golden Rule ever been put better?

Why is this film so much better than its sequel, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which has an excellent if unrealized story line? Because all the special FX budget was spent on the "hell" sequence in that film, which bogs down the rest of the picture. There's a most excellent line of comic books that accompany the Bill and Ted saga, by the same artist who did Milk and Cheese. The story arc is both humorous and gripping. This is one of the few properties that really could deliver a few sequels and works well as an animated series. I join hundreds of reviewers who love this film in recommending this most excellent DVD.

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Timeless, Optimistic and Brilliant, Dude

For starters, the Amazon review of this all-time classic is downright unfair. 17 years later (can those of you in your 30's believe this was 17 years ago?) Bill and Ted's still pulls a good audience as a TBS Sunday movie. We'll see if anybody remembers Marshall Fine in 17 years.

Both Bill and Ted's movies are warm, funny, witty and extremely optimistic fantasies. By no means am I the type to be offended by sex, drugs or violence (see my 4-star review of Hostel) but it is extremely difficult to think of a highly-successful comedy that didn't need any of the above. Only the most conservative of parents would hesitate to allow a 5-year-old to view this movie, and to be fair, there are a lot of lessons a child could learn from Bill and Ted. On the surface, a movie about airhead (and if made today, stoner) rock and roll loving high-school students, there is a lot more to Bill and Ted's. The movie is about friendship and accomplishment against difficult odds. It's about trying to succeed against insurmountable obstacles. If it's possible to fix a time machine with bubble gum, maybe it is possible to become the greatest rock band of all time without talent. And if not, it still makes for a great 2 hours that still leaves me smiling after countless viewings.

If somehow you haven't seen Bill and Ted's, I can't recommend the film highly enough. A list of influential and creative films of modern times would be incomplete without it.

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Party On Dudes!!!!!!

This movie is fun for kids and adults alike, and to learn historical figures on the way. The idea of two rocker dudes going back in time in a phonebooth to kidnap historical figures for a high school history report is hilarious. Billy the Kid, Ghengis Khan, and Socrates are really funny, and especially Napoloeon. They also capture Joan of Arc, Sigmund Freud and Abe Lincoln. Watch for Rufus played by George Carlin. Man, when I was young, my best friend and I went to the movies 5 times to see this movie. It became a great movie that me and my dad mutually loved and watched over and over...if i was feeling bad or my dad came in the door, he would open his arms and smile, saying "party on, dudes!!!!"

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"All we are is dust in the wind, dude"

Ted "Thedore" Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esqire...together, they're WYLD STALLIONS! And they're time traveling together, thanks to a telephone booth provided by Rufus.
Bill and Ted are two airheads that need to pass thier history exam. To do so, they time travel to the past to gather notable people in history (Like Joan of Arc and Socrates to name a few).
The movie stars Keanu Reeves of The Matrix movies (hard to see that airhead as a hacker)
Party on, Dude!

Ignore the official Amazon review this is a most excellent film

I'll keep this fairly brief, I wasn't intending to review this but I have just finished watching the film for about the hundredth time, so I checked it out on Amazon to see what the reviews were like. Of course they are generally positive, however the official Amazon review is hilariously wrong. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a funny and at times very clever film, but once again some critic with a stick up his a*s wants to knock it as juvenile rubbish. To criticise it for being historically inacurate is ridiculous (as a few have done), Bill & Ted are clearly not meant to be clever, it is not a history lesson. Well you only have to check out the other reviewers to see how timeless and popular it still remains today, and most of them are likely to be fully grown adults. I won't go into depth on the plot or tell you my favourite part, if your on this page you've seen it before, it captures a moment in cinema history and I never tire of the film however much I watch it.

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