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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.
 

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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... 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]

Genre: Comedies

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

Director: Stephen Herek
Composer: David Newman

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 27, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Note: This release is in the UMD format for Sony PSP players only.
  • Anamorphic - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
  • Subtitles - English, French - Optional

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06/27/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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2/5

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 Already outdated comedy.

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03/02/08
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com
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2.5/4

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

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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.

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05/30/07
Variety
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3/5

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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.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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3/5

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10/04/05
Cole Smithey
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3/5

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08/01/05
Emanuel Levy
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3/4

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

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07/16/05
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
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4/5

No review available.

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05/13/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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3/5

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01/08/04
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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4/5

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07/16/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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4/5

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07/10/03
Rebecca Murray
About.com
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3/5

Just stupid enough to be endearing.

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06/12/03
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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3/5

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05/26/03
Darrin Keene
Film Threat
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2/5

A painfully inept comedy.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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3/5

Airheaded but funny movie. I actually liked "Bogus Journey" better, though.

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03/18/03
Brian Mckay
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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.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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3/5

Classic! Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

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02/18/03
Kevin Fiddler
Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)
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5/5

Cheerfully stupid comic classic.

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