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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

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Reviews Counted: 32

Fresh: 26

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6.3/10

Consensus: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming, goofy, and silly enough to make this fluffy time-travel Adventure work.

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the... Two brain-dead California teenagers, with a combined vocabulary of approximately 75 words, travel back in time to corral various historical figures for a class presentation that just might keep the pair from failing history "most heinously." Napoleon, Socrates, Billy The Kid, Sigmund Freud and Mozart are among those who journey forward in time with the duo in order to give the youth of California eye-witness accounts of the "awesome" pageant that is world history. Most excellent. [More]

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron, Terry Camilleri, Clifford David, Al Leong, Rod Loomis, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Jane Wiedlin, John "Fee" Waybill

Director: Stephen Herek

Director: Stephen Herek
Composer: David Newman

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Release:

Jul 14, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • NTSC
  • Keep Case
  • Single Side - Dual Layer
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
  • Letterbox - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
 
 
 
 

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Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
06/27/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Wow, man, and to think Keanu Reeves started here. Already outdated comedy.

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03/02/08
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Bill and Ted has an intangibly charming goofiness about it that is somehow endearing.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/30/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Reeves, with his beguilingly blank face and loose-limbed, happy-go-lucky physical vocabulary, and Winter, with his golden curls, gleefully good vibes and 'bodacious' vocabulary, propel this adventure as long as they can.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/30/07
Variety
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No review available.

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07/10/06
Susan Granger
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This is extremely silly, good natured, superficial stuff; a lot depends on whether you take to Bill and Ted's unique lingo (which contorts surfers' expressions) and their gormless behaviour.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
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No review available.

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10/04/05
Cole Smithey
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08/01/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

...a silly, broad comedy that has justifiably endured over the years.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
07/16/05
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

No review available.

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05/13/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

No review available.

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01/08/04
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

No review available.

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07/16/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

No review available.

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07/10/03
Rebecca Murray
About.com

Just stupid enough to be endearing.

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06/12/03
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

No review available.

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05/26/03
Darrin Keene
Film Threat

A painfully inept comedy.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment 4 Comments
05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Airheaded but funny movie. I actually liked "Bogus Journey" better, though.

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03/18/03
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

As these high school goofballs travel back in time to score some heavy dudes like Napoleon, Socrates, and Billy the Kid for their history presentation, they wrote themselves into the teen-movie pantheon.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Classic! Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

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02/18/03
Kevin Fiddler
Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)

Cheerfully stupid comic classic.

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11/07/02
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner
 
 
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