Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
81 %
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
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 pair from failing history "most heinously." Napoleon, Socrates, Billy The Kid, Sigmund... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Robert V. Barron, Terry Camilleri
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06/27/08
Bill and Ted has an intangibly charming goofiness about it that is somehow endearing.
05/30/07
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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.
05/30/07
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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.
06/24/06
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...a silly, broad comedy that has justifiably endured over the years.
07/16/05
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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.
03/10/03
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